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With the sequester now beginning, I find myself thinking about Robert F. Kennedy -- and 46 years ago when I was an intern in his Senate office.

Conventional wisdom currently is that the sequester deadline will pass and then Washington will come up with some sort of compromise solution. Perhaps just in time for the next self-inflicted crisis.

Republicans argue that our revenue discussion should be over. They'll say that we already agreed to raise tax rates a little bit on the rich, so now we should only be cutting spending. But they ignore that America gives away through the tax code just as much money as it collects.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has had plenty of criticism for 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, but during an appearance on ABC'...

* Levin circulates list of specific tax ideas to colleagues * Automatic spending cuts will be 'disaster,' he says By Kim...

By using a loophole in the tax code, some individuals have organized their businesses in such a way that their earnings, what you and I would call "wages," can technically be called "profits" and therefore are not subject to Medicare tax.

A top adviser to President Barack Obama said Sunday that more revenue must be part of any long-term deficit deal that the administration strikes with ...

We should stop taking the flawed arguments of the rich seriously, and call it out for what it is. Greed.

I am not remotely against the rich: It would be great if many more were rich. But to simplify for the sake of a useful argument, we need to distinguish at least two kinds of rich: the good in-it-together rich and the bad in-it-only-for-themselves rich.

I pay more. So do you -- either as a percentage of our income, as an effective federal tax rate, and even as a dollar amount compared to our corporate counterparts.

Jon Huntsman, former Utah governor and 2012 Republican presidential candidate, said on Thursday that Mitt Romney showed a lack of leadership with his ...

Wondering which loopholes for the rich Mitt Romney would close to pay for a $5 trillion tax cut? Don't go to his website. A Romney budget, the webs...