Vote and Pray Like Your Life Depends on it – It Does By: Brian C. Joondeph Every election is the “most important election of our time,” at least until the next one. This year is […]
Pam Barker | Director of TLB Europe Reloaded Project Merkel has just made a brief visit to Greece, the first since Tsipras was elected in 2015, which was met with angry protests. As reported by […]
Pushing back against the Republicans’ deficit-reduction strategy, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said this weekend that more tax revenues – not just spending cuts – must be a part of Congress’s effort to rein […]
President Obama this morning pocketed the Republican concessions on tax hikes included in the Fiscal Cliff deal and promised that it was only the beginning of new taxation to be assessed on the American people. […]
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the last-minute fiscal cliff deal reached by congressional leaders and President Barack Obama cuts only $15 billion in spending while increasing tax revenues by $620 billion—a 41:1 ratio of […]
Neither the Obama administration nor congressional Republicans want to increase taxes on everyone, but most workers are likely to see lower take-home pay in 2013, eating away at economic growth. The White House, in its […]
President Obama argues that the election gave him a mandate to raise taxes on high earners, and the White House indicates that he won’t compromise on this issue as the so-called fiscal cliff approaches. But […]
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