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Obama Releases Tax Return

Posted 04.12.2013 | Politics

President Barack Obama released his 2012 federal and state income tax returns Friday. The president and First Lady reported a total income of $608,611...

Jim DeMint: Obama Will Win On Taxes

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 02.12.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A leading conservative who's resigning from the Senate is predicting that President Barack Obama will win the battle over raising taxes....

Obama's Tax Plan Would Hit Stunt Business Growth, Republicans Say

AP | STEPHEN OHLEMACHER | Posted 02.09.2013 | Small Business

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's plan to increase taxes on top earners would have only a small impact on the nation's economy, according to...

The Surprising Truth About Obama's Tax Plan

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 12.08.2012 | Business

President Barack Obama touts his tax plan as raising taxes on households making more than $250,000. As it turns out, that threshold is more like $300,...

The Truth on Taxes: Everyone Needs to Pay More

David Callahan | Posted 01.30.2013 | Politics
David Callahan

Promising the middle class -- and a good swath of the upper middle class -- that their taxes will never go up is politically cowardly, economically irresponsible, and a betrayal of the progressive belief in government.

3 Ways Smart Business People Will Profit Under Obama

Gene Marks | Posted 01.19.2013 | Small Business
Gene Marks

I supported Governor Romney in the election. He lost. It's over. President Obama is our president. He deserves our support. Or at the very least our respect. Because that's what smart business people do. They put emotions aside and run their businesses based on the facts.

Luke Johnson

Obama Slams GOP Idea: 'The Math Tends Not To Work'

HuffingtonPost.com | Luke Johnson | Posted 11.14.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama has rejected an idea put forward by House Speaker John Boehner and other Republicans to close unspecified tax loo...

Obama Says He Won't Extend Bush Tax Cuts For Wealthiest Americans

AP | Posted 01.14.2013 | Politics

By KEN THOMAS, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In a challenge to Republicans, President Barack Obama urged Congress on Wednesday to extend exp...

Obama Edges Romney On Trust, Taxes In Key Swing State

The Huffington Post | Michael McAuliff | Posted 10.17.2012 | Politics

The campaign of Mitt Romney has been pounding relentlessly on the idea that President Barack Obama will raise taxes, hoping to sway voters in key swin...

Obama Ad Hits Mitt Romney's 'Fair' Tax Rate

The Huffington Post | Elise Foley | Posted 10.12.2012 | Politics

The Obama campaign released an ad Friday attacking Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for paying 14 percent in federal taxes last year on the...

Sam Stein

Obama And Biden's Capital Gains Tax Policy Goes Unnoticed

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.26.2012 | Politics

Mitt Romney's assertion in a "60 Minutes" interview Sunday that it was fair for a person earning $50,000 per year to pay a higher effective tax rate t...

Amanda Terkel

John Boehner: GOP Won't Agree To Raise Taxes On Wealthy, Even If Obama Wins

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 09.21.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Elections often come with a mandate -- or at least some sort of consequences for the defeated party, which not only has its candidates r...

Obama Touts Key Policies In Battleground State

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 09.15.2012 | Politics

CINCINNATI — President Barack Obama on Monday mocked Mitt Romney's economic vision, saying the only jobs plan his Republican rival has would cre...

The Truth About Obama's Tax Proposal (and the Lies the Regressives Are Telling About It)

Robert Reich | Posted 09.09.2012 | Politics
Robert Reich

Everyone is treated exactly the same. Everyone gets a one-year extension of the Bush tax cut on the first $250,000 of income. No "class warfare." Yet regressive Republicans want Americans to believe differently.

Will Smith: Tax Me More!

AP | RYAN PEARSON | Posted 07.08.2012 | Entertainment

LOS ANGELES — One of Hollywood's biggest and best-paid stars is supporting President Barack Obama's call for higher taxes on the country's top e...

Why a Fair Economy Is Not Incompatible With Growth But Essential to It

Robert Reich | Posted 06.16.2012 | Business
Robert Reich

What we should have learned over the last half century is that growth doesn't trickle down from the top. It percolates upward from working people who are adequately educated, healthy, sufficiently rewarded, and who feel they have a fair chance to make it in America.

Who He's Really Going After

AP | ALAN FRAM | Posted 04.16.2012 | Home

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama's proposal to impose a "Buffett rule" tax on the rich is generating enormous political wattage, but the plan itse...

Fiscal Affairs: The Buffett Rule Is a Good Idea

Simon Johnson | Posted 06.16.2012 | Business
Simon Johnson

The Buffett Rule is a tiny tax, of little consequence to the people who would pay it or to the country as a whole. The idea that $30 billion of additional revenue would tip the balance in any way is simply ludicrous. But this is precisely what gives the Buffett Rule its powerful symbolism.

Elise Foley

RNC Chairman: Buffett Rule A 'Shiny Object'

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 04.15.2012 | Politics

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus was dismissive Sunday of the Buffett Rule, calling it little more than a "shiny object" the pres...

Ben Hallman

Obamas Claim Tax Break That Most Helps The Rich

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 04.14.2012 | Business

President Barack Obama didn't benefit last year from the huge break in the tax code that allows his presumptive rival, Mitt Romney, to pay taxes at a ...

Tiny Little Hope for Tax Reform

David Miller | Posted 06.10.2012 | Business
David Miller

Surprisingly, the president and his Republican counterparts are all in the same room and often on the very same page on the fundamental elements of tax reform.

Americans Say Others Not Paying Fair Share Of Taxes

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.05.2012 | Business

It's not that Americans just don't like paying taxes. They also really don't approve of the U.S. system as a whole, according to a recent survey. ...

Corporate Tax Rate Hits Ten-Year Low

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 03.05.2012 | Business

Nobody likes tax time. But for many companies, that annual burden is getting a lot lighter. Corporations are enjoying not only record profits, but ...

Warren Buffett: High Corporate Taxes Are An American 'Myth'

The Huffington Post | Bonnie Kavoussi | Posted 02.27.2012 | Business

Corporations, like the rich, aren't paying their fair share in taxes, billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC on Monday. Even while enjoying...

Dan Froomkin

Who Loses Big In Obama's Tax Plan?

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 02.23.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Every one of the dozens of corporate tax loopholes and subsidies that President Barack Obama announced this week he'd like to expunge ha...