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- Editorial Board: Bush tax cuts helped the rich get richer
WHILE FEW QUESTION the fact that income inequality has risen in the United States over the past three decades, there is plenty of dispute about why. Some argue that the upward shift in after-tax income reflects a high-tech society?s increasing rewards to highly skilled workers, or the rise of super-paid ?superstars? in everything from finance to sports, or the decline of labor unions and the ...
bill bush cut tax 05 Feb 2012 - APNewsBreak: Wis. GOP candidate got stimulus money
The leading tea party-backed Republican candidate running for Wisconsin's open U.S. Senate seat who has also been a longtime critic of a federal stimulus program received more than $80,000 in stimulus grants for his own solar energy company.
bill bush cut tax 05 Feb 2012 - Drop the Middle Class Talk
In 1992, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton built his campaign for the White House on doing more for the "forgotten middle class." Calling it the "new covenant" (Democrats since Roosevelt have tried to work the words "new" or "deal" into their campaign slogans), Clinton promised to focus on the people he called "the backbone of the country, the ones who do the work and pay the taxes and send their ...
bill bush cut tax 05 Feb 2012 - Wonkbook: Yes, tax cuts increase the deficit
On Thursday, House Republicans unanimously rejected a resolution from Rep. Gary Peters stating, among other things, that the Bush tax cuts added to the deficit. If you read the text they were voting on, it's pretty clear that it wasn't built for bipartisanship: It's phrased to suggest that Bush was a liar and Republican governance was a fraud. That kind of thing doesn't pick up votes across the ...
bill bush cut tax 05 Feb 2012 - Bush Tax Cuts Saved Romney Almost $1.2 Million in 2011
Congress will have to decide this year what to do about the Bush tax cuts, most of which sunset at the end of this year. President Obama has said that they should be extended for all but the highest income taxpayers.?? His Republican challengers favor extending all of them. (Our budget situation would be vastly ...
bill bush cut tax 05 Feb 2012 - 12 Things You Need To Do To Prepare For Tax Season
In recent years, as Congress crafted new laws such as housing bills, health care reform or extended tax provisions such as the Bush-era tax cuts, lawmakers were careful to make sure that no major taxes took effect in 2012.
bill bush cut tax 05 Feb 2012 - U.S. House digs into transportation issues
Two transportation bills in Congress have some important implications for Minnesota, not the least of which is a potential for fewer federal dollars to flow into the state.
bill bush cut tax 05 Feb 2012 - Romney's Tax Plan Really Does Favor The Rich
Despite evidence to the contrary, there is a lingering view that Mitt Romney's tax plan would primarily help middle-income households and not favor the rich. Yet TPC's analysis of the plan clearly showed that high-income households would win big and others would do less well. Poor families would actually lose, relative to the taxes they're ...
bill bush cut tax 05 Feb 2012
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