Posted in Economy, Politics on Jan 19th, 2009 No Comments »
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SPEAKERS: BOB SCHIEFFER, HOST
LARRY SUMMERS, PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA’S ECONOMIC ADVISER
MICHAEL ERIC DYSON, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
JOHN DICKERSON, SLATE
[*] SCHIEFFER: Today on “Face the Nation” from Capitol Hill, two days before the inauguration, an exclusive interview with President- elect Barack Obama ’s top economic adviser Larry Summers. In just two days, the new president will be sworn in [...]
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Bob Novak reports that away from any public scrutiny, Ways and Means Chairman Rangel is preparing a huge tax increase on many Americans:
Rangel, having finally achieved his coveted chairman’s role after years of waiting, wants to make history. His staff is hard at work on an audacious plan that over the next decade would redistribute [...]
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Washington (Sept. 17, 2007) Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Committee on Finance, along with two committee members, is urging the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service to take action to ensure that families who lose their homes to foreclosure face more reasonable, accurate tax bills for their home loan debt forgiveness.
“Working [...]
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[In response to Dr. Sanjay Gupta's biased reporting on 'SiCKO' during the July 8th, 2007 broadcast of... The Situation Room (VIDEO)]
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN: “(Moore says) the United States slipped to number 37 in the world’s health care systems. It’s true. … Moore brings a group of patients, including 9/11 workers, to Cuba and marvels [...]
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Posted in Politics on Jul 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Tommy Thompson
TAXES: As president, Thompson said, he would require most federal agencies to reduce their spending by 3 percent for each year of his first four-year term. Defense and homeland security would be excluded from those mandates under Thompson’s plan.
“No tax increase. I lower taxes. I don’t
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Posted: 14 June 2007 | Subscribe Online
writes Gary Vaux
Gary Vaux reveals the creative statistics behind the apparent early success of the government’s child poverty strategy
The news that the government is likely to miss its targets on reducing child poverty probably couldn’t have come at a worse time for Gordon Brown. Tax credits were his “big [...]
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Hillary Rodham Clinton wooed Silicon Valley campaign donors and voters Thursday with a plan to create more high-paying jobs and maintain U.S. dominance in technology.
The New York senator and Democratic presidential hopeful said she’s trying to increase the number of so-called H1B visas aimed at highly educated workers. Silicon Valley companies use H1Bs to sponsor [...]
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June 1st, 2007 by Gordon Cook
Hey what do I know about high finanance? A few months ago I read that one reason that workers pay hasn’t budged is that, under the Bush, Cheney, Rove Abramov oligarchy, the fortune 500 has been having a field day with usinmg profits for stock buy backs and taking full [...]
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You could write a book about things Democrats didn’t like about John Kerry as a presidential candidate. One of them was his comparatively timid tax policy proposals, which insisted that the already-enacted Bush tax cuts could (and should) affordably be continued for all but the very wealthiest Americans. Beyond the specifics, there was a vague, [...]
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