Wouldn't it be great if the Congress that exacerbated our current situation were held responsible for their grade school behavior which brought on our current financial situation, paying higher taxes until things right themselves, even if it's after some get voted out of office?

WASHINGTON — Feel your taxes are too low? House Republicans have devised a new convenient way for those worried about government red ink to dona...

WASHINGTON — Republicans will have to drop their insistence on retaining tax cuts for the rich and plans to reshape Medicare before there can be...

Is it too much to ask that people making over one million dollars in annual income pay a tax rate comparable to middle income Americans? Why is there one set of rules for millionaires and a different set of rules for the rest of us?

Romney is right to mock the Buffett Rule as more about politics than economic fairness, and Obama is right that even if it's a drop in the bucket, it's still worth doing. Both are wrong to make a big deal about the Buffett Rule as having a serious economic effect one way or the other.

WASHINGTON -- Democrats' attempt to pass a Buffett Rule tax on the super wealthy failed Monday in the Senate, as Republicans blocked the measure in a ...

One Sunday last May, Cherine Akbari moved into her new townhouse in sunny Oakland Park, Fla. The next day, the 27-year-old went to work doing what she...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is calling on Congress to increase taxes on millionaires, reviving a proposal he first pitched last Septembe...

It may surprise a lot of people to find Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama, Sheldon Whitehouse and I on the same side of anything. But with an issue like this that makes so much sense the real question is, why does today's right wing disagree?

Governor Brown takes a half step in the right direction. But other states should not emulate it. Instead Californians and others should support a proposal which advances real change -- The Millionaires Tax.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) announced Monday that he will unveil "Buffett Rule" legislation this week. President Barack Obama high...

WASHINGTON — Aiming tax increases at millionaires and companies that ship jobs abroad may help frame the fairness theme of President Barack Obam...

I hope Mr. Arends will step back and look at what the Millionaires Tax of 2012 is all about, not just try to defend a tax code that helps the uber rich while punishing the very middle class he says he advises.

WASHINGTON -- Faced with (still) intransigent Republicans, the White House on Thursday floated an idea: that Congress extend the payroll tax cuts and ...

Thousands of people across the world are actively maintaining the front line of the Occupy movement; this article is not for those people.