Payroll Tax Holiday

Yelp May Not Benefit From San Francisco's Payroll Tax Break After All

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 02.21.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO -- On March 2, online review site Yelp will become the next major San Francisco-based tech firm to take advantage of a newly instituted ...

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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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GOP Urges Members To Be Less Extreme, More Political

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 02.14.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The potential Republican retreat from a hard-line stance on extending the payroll tax cut comes as GOP leaders have been quietly urging ...

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Media Fail to Tell Full "Tax Holiday" Story

Paul Kleyman | Posted 02.24.2012

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Democratic leaders and the White House are congratulating themselves as they depart for the holiday weekend about their tax-holiday victory over GOP hardliners. But the payroll tax holiday, like most vacations, will have its bill to pay.

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McConnell Urges Compromise Over Contentious Issue

AP | ANDREW TAYLOR and LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 02.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- GOP aides say House Republican leaders have agreed to a two-month extension of Social Security payroll tax cuts and federal unemployment...

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Americans May Be Forced To Scale Back If Payroll Tax Cut Expires

AP | By MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Some say they'll spend less on groceries. Others expect to cut back on travel. For many, there would be fewer meals out. Across the cou...

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Democratic Campaign Groups Slam Republicans On Payroll Tax Cut

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In yet another sign that Democrats are sure they're winning the debate over extending the payroll tax cut, a party campaign outfit is us...

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If It Ain't Broke, Break It

Rep. Keith Ellison | Posted 02.20.2012

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Our democracy is built not only on compromise, but on trying solutions from both parties. And with an economic crisis as deep as ours, we can't afford to ignore ideas that create jobs. Our government is not broken, but Republican ideology certainly is.

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House GOP Caucus Could Do Better Than 'Braveheart' As Their Source Of Cinematic Pep

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2012

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When we look back on American history with our typical panglossian perspective, we tend to imagine that at every great moment, our nation was propelled into the future by the right person who had the right speech to stir our souls at the right time. Whether or not that used to be true, it doesn't seem to be the case anymore. At least if the House GOP caucus is any guide, anyway. For the second time in their first year as an assembly, they've relied on inspirational speeches from movies to inspire each other to go out and obstruct like the dickens! Hooray for Hollywood cliches, I guess.

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Dems Try To Shame GOP With House Floor Stunt

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.21.2011

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WASHINGTON -- While House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) held a news conference Wednesday demanding that Democrats return from vacation to extend the p...

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Payroll Tax Cut Bill: House Rejects Senate Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- House Republicans on Tuesday rejected a Senate bill that would have prevented a payroll tax cut from expiring on New Year's Day, saying ...

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Off the Cliff

Rep. Bruce Braley | Posted 02.19.2012

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It's unacceptable. Letting the payroll tax cut expire would not only take money away from struggling middle class families -- it would put a damper on job creation in our weak economy.

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Senate Candidates Campaigning On Divisive Bill

The Huffington Post | Meghan Neal | Posted 12.19.2011

It seems members of Congress up for re-election in 2012 aren't hesitating to use their stance on the payroll tax cut bill as a campaign play -- especi...

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Dems Find Silver Lining In GOP Opposition To Payroll Tax Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Many Democrats think House Republicans have given them an early political Christmas present by opposing the Senate deal to extend the mi...

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Senate Passes Payroll Tax Cut Extension With Keystone XL Provision

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.19.2011

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UPDATE - House Republicans are threatening to reject the payroll tax cut and unemployment insurance extension deal approved by the Senate, according t...

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Payroll Tax Cut Deal To Include Controversial Keystone Pipeline

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.19.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate negotiators agreed Friday to a two-month deal to extend unemployment benefits and the middle-class payroll tax cut, but Democrats...

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Payroll Tax Cut Extension: Leaders Near Deal

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders cut a deal to keep the government funded Thursday night, but extending a payroll tax cut and other items that expi...

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White House Suggests A Short Tax Holiday

HuffingtonPost.com | Howard Fineman | Posted 12.15.2011

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

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Senate Leaders Backdown From Latest Shutdown Showdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Striking a remarkably friendlier tone than a day before, Senate leaders Thursday backed off angry, confrontational threats of causing a ...

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White House Throws Curve Ball In Budget Negotiations

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.15.2011

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WASHINGTON -- In a move that could dramatically shake up late-stage budget negotiations in Congress, the White House on Wednesday night issued a publi...

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House Republican Unemployment Insurance Proposal Acts As If Economic Slump Is Over

Chad Stone | Posted 02.13.2012

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Republicans must think the job market is improving rapidly and that the CBO is way off base in projecting that the unemployment rate will average 8.7 percent. How else can one explain their proposal to slash federal emergency unemployment insurance benefits?

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Payroll Tax Cut Fight Sparks Government Shutdown Threat

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.14.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders again raised the specter of a federal government shutdown Wednesday in the latest round of partisan brinksmanship over th...

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White House Promises Veto Of GOP Payroll Tax Extension

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The White House issued an unequivocal threat to veto the House Republican bill to extend the payroll tax cut Tuesday, condemning it as a...

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Do The People The GOP Claims To Worry About Even Exist?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.11.2011

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Back in September, our own Christina Wilkie teamed up with Shawn Alff of Creative Loafing to talk with some small-business owners in the Tampa, Fla., ...

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