Payroll Tax Cut

Are You Ready for Taxmaggedon?

Martin Sullivan | Posted 05.24.2012

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A combination of spending cuts and tax increases could bring the economy to its knees at the end of 2012.

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Obama Rolling Out New Unemployment Program

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 04.20.2012

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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is looking for states to experiment with unemployment insurance by letting people test a job while receivi...

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Agency Warns Of 'Total Confusion' If Congress Doesn't Act

AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 04.05.2012

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WASHINGTON — IRS commissioner Douglas Shulman warned Thursday of a disastrous tax filing season next year if Congress puts off dealing with tax ...

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A Time Bomb of a Tax Code

Christopher Bergin | Posted 06.02.2012

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If Congress and the president do nothing about our tax system between now and the end of the year, here are just a few things in the tax law that will blow up.

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Recipe for a Double-Dip Recession

Robert Kuttner | Posted 06.01.2012

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With the economy just barely on a path to durable recovery, some very dumb fiscal chickens are coming home to roost on January 1 of next year. This grim coincidence is known as the Triple Witching Hour.

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Payroll Tax Cut Extension: Just Another Quick Fix

Christopher Bergin | Posted 05.26.2012

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Politicians are counting on the fact that the American public wants instant gratification and is more concerned about today than the potential long-term solvency of Social Security or the bill we are leaving our children and grandchildren to pay.

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Democratic Leaders Predict GOP Train Wreck On Transportation Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 03.02.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats predict Republicans are headed for another train wreck in the House over the stalled transportation bill. The...

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Viewers Watch Gas Prices Spike Right Before Their Eyes During News Segment

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 02.24.2012

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Even with gas prices on the rise, it's rare Americans get to see them spike right before their very eyes. But that's exactly what happened Wednesd...

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On Behalf of the 1%, the Best Bargain Since Manhattan

J.H. Snider | Posted 04.24.2012

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Unmentioned is that the payroll-tax cut bill, by bipartisan agreement, sets in motion a much larger transfer of public assets to the top 1%.

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Unemployment and Poverty in America

Rep. Charles Rangel | Posted 04.23.2012

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Since President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the historic Social Security Act of 1935, unemployment insurance has kept American families from falling into poverty. Seventy seven years later, this vital lifeline for unemployment insurance recipients continues to be weakened.

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Obama Signs Payroll Tax Cut Extension

AP | By MARK S. SMITH | Posted 04.23.2012

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WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama signed the payroll tax cut extension into law Wednesday, notching an election-year victory and rare bipartisan ag...

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Obama Touts Big Win

AP | By JULIE PACE | Posted 04.22.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Relishing a political victory, President Barack Obama said Tuesday that Congress "did the right thing" by extending payroll tax cuts for...

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Republicans: Against It Before They Were for It

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 04.21.2012

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In a presidential election year, Boehner & Co. surrendered to a simple calculus: the 99 percent has something that the 1 percent doesn't -- more votes. Way more.

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'We Need To Change Course'

AP | By ALAN FRAM | Posted 02.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Bruised from the payroll tax cut brawl, congressional Republicans want to change the subject and push legislation they say would create ...

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Obama Finally Scores Coveted Win

AP | By ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 02.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The $143 billion payroll tax cut won by President Barack Obama may be the last significant measure he receives from a deeply divided Con...

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John Boehner Is Upset That The Payroll Tax Cut Extension Means That Mere Ordinary Americans Will Have More Money

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2012

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As you know, the White House's pursuit of a payroll tax cut extension, which many believed (based on their observation of how Washington has been work...

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Getting Off the Treadmill

Michael Farr | Posted 04.18.2012

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It likely means that investors will eventually get what they want yet again. Sometime down the road, while it may not be at the next couple of meetings, the Fed will likely implement QE3. But it has to end somewhere. So what are we to make of the divergent opinions within the Fed?

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House, Senate Pass Payroll Tax Cut Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.18.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Congress passed the extension of the payroll tax holiday Friday, voting overwhelmingly to continue the 2 percent break and extend emerge...

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The President's 2013 Budget Shifts the Focus to Growing the Economy and the Middle Class

Pearl Korn | Posted 04.18.2012

Of course, Boehner and McConnell and their cronies are already crying "foul" that the budget is all election year pandering by the president without a snowball's chance of being passed, since not enough is being offered to reduce the deficit. All smoke and mirrors and accounting tricks is their numbing refrain.

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WATCH: Democrat Slams Party, President For 'Unravelling' Social Security

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.20.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Harkin slammed his own president and party for hatching the payroll tax cut deal that is expected to pass Congress Friday, sayi...

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Payroll Tax Deal Finalized Before Vote

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.17.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers signed off on the final details of the bill to extend a payroll tax cut and unemployment benefits Thursday, likely clearing th...

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Payroll Tax Cut: A Win For Scott Brown

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The pending extension of the popular payroll tax holiday may have been a debacle for most Republicans in Congress, but it could be seen ...

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Boehner Throws Cold Water On Payroll Tax Deal

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR | Posted 04.17.2012

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WASHINGTON — Capitol Hill negotiators Thursday officially unveiled hard-fought compromise legislation to prevent 160 million workers from gettin...

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Congress Agrees On Payroll Tax Cut, Unemployment Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators reached a final deal to extend the popular payroll tax cut for the rest of the year, with Republicans agreeing...

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Congress Agrees On Payroll Tax Cut, Unemployment Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 04.16.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional negotiators reached a final deal to extend the popular payroll tax cut for the rest of the year, with Republicans agreeing...

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