It's amazing what you can gain from lying. It can get you in jail or lose you a few friends. But done the right way, lying can mislead an entire country -- and maybe even get you elected president.
Jared Bernstein | Posted 04.17.2012
The wealthy have been paying a larger share of federal income taxes not because their tax rates have gone up -- in fact, they've gone down. It's because they've been collecting the lion's share of the growth for decades.
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 04.14.2012
WASHINGTON — Pressuring Mitt Romney on taxes, President Barack Obama's campaign re-released more than a decade of tax records Friday, a politica...
Posted 04.13.2012
President Barack Obama's federal income and gift tax returns for 2011 were released by the White House on Friday along with those for Vice President J...
AP | Posted 04.11.2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says his call for raising taxes on millionaires is not a redistribution of wealth, but a way to free up mone...
Joseph Rauch | Posted 04.10.2012
Obama is going to win the election this year and when he does, I want him to raise taxes on wealthy Americans by repealing the Bush tax cuts or introducing new tax legislation on the "1 percent" as well as capital gains.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.20.2012
WASHINGTON -- The budget outline introduced by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday would witness a massive reduction in tax ...
The Daily Iowan | Posted 05.08.2012
Counter to the contention of conservatives, tax cuts do not prevent immoral cost shifting. If anything, tax cuts increase that risk.
The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.27.2012
Corporations, like the rich, aren't paying their fair share in taxes, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC on Monday. Even while enjoying...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 02.22.2012
President Obama hopes to bring change to a loophole-ridden corporate tax code that allows potential tax dollars to slip through the cracks. In exchang...
AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 04.14.2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama proposed tax increases on wealthy individuals and some corporations Monday, setting the stage for an ideolog...
Bill Gunderson | Posted 04.13.2012
The bottom line is this: What we have been doing has not been working. If a bunch of politicians can run the country into the ground, I feel pretty confident that it will take some businessmen to turn it around.
Reuters | Posted 01.31.2012
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama sought on Tuesday to revive a plan to give small businesses tax breaks and help start-up firms, ide...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.30.2011
WASHINGTON -- In an interview that aired Wednesday night on NBC News, Mitt Romney definitively answered one of the lingering questions surrounding his...
Andrew Fieldhouse | Posted 02.07.2012
I applaud the president for making the case against regressive tax cuts as the lodestar of economic policy. We cannot afford to double down on the failed, plutocratic pipe dream that is trickle down economics.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- As the United States Senate considers yet another variation of the payroll tax cut, there appears to be little common ground over how th...
AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 02.02.2012
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama wants voters to get involved in the debate over extending the reduced payroll tax and he's asking them to te...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 01.10.2012
WASHINGTON -- Top officials in the Obama administration on Thursday outlined a major end-of-the-year push to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut,...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rod Kurtz | Posted 11.22.2011
What should be done about America's debt? It's the $14 trillion question that continues to fuel debate in the halls of Congress and across dinner tabl...
Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 11.20.2011
Good politicians, and good presidents, don't choose between getting reelected and doing a good job. If Obama had managed to substantially reduce unemployment, for example, it would have helped his reelection chances while obviously being good for the country, as well.
HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.20.2011
Tax the rich, a frequently cited conservative argument goes, and the rich will retreat. They'll stop hiring; they'll stop investing; they'll stop spen...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.19.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's broad new debt reduction proposal has, at least momentarily, managed to placate a community of progressive acti...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.19.2011
Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, said wealthy Americans should pay "lots of taxes" in a post on his blog on Monday. Titled "The Most Patr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.18.2011
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama will veto a comprehensive deficit reduction package if it includes cuts to entitlement program benefits but no ta...
The Washington Post | Posted 11.18.2011
As President Obama and congressional Republicans argue over how to rewrite the U.S. tax code, the debate has revolved around “loopholes” for corpo...
Jess Coleman | Posted 05.24.2012