JULY 15, 2011 The real reason the U.S. could lose its AAA rating. So the credit-rating agencies that helped to create the financial crisis that led to a deep recession are now warning that the U.S. could lose the AAA rating it has had since 1917. As painfully ironic as this is, there’s no benefit
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JUNE 29, 2011 The return of the deduction phase-out gambit. The White House wants Republicans to agree to tax increases that no one wants to call tax increases, and for an insight into this political method let’s focus on one proposal in particular—the phase-out of itemized deductions for upper-income taxpayers. We hope the tea party
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MAY 26, 2011 Democrats have said they only intend to restore the tax rates that existed during the Clinton years. In reality they’re proposing rates like those under President Carter. By STEPHEN MOORE Media reports in recent weeks say that Senate Democrats are considering a 3% surtax on income over $1 million to raise federal
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) No hope, no change. Fred Barnes April 13, 2011 4:02 PM President Obama always lets you down. Just when you think he’s ready to deliver a lofty speech chocked with specifics on handling the spending and debt emergency, he offers up a hyper-partisan attack on the leading Republican proposal,
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JANUARY 19, 2011 Obama’s Rules Revelation The era of big regulation is over. Or is it? President Obama took to these pages yesterday to announce a new executive order to restore “balance” to federal regulation and root out rules that impede job creation and economic growth. If he means it, this will be one of
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Posted on Sat, Jan. 01, 2011 Dave Barry’s 2010 Year in Review By Dave Barry Jack Ohman / MCT Let’s put things into perspective: 2010 was not the worst year ever. There have been MUCH worse years. For example, toward the end of the Cretaceous Period, the Earth was struck by an asteroid that wiped
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THE AMERICAN SPECATOR The Largest Selection of Liberal-baiting Merchandise on the Net! Feature America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 – August 2010 issue As over-leveraged investment houses began to fail in September 2008, the leaders of the Republican and Democratic parties, of major corporations,
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THE ROCHE RECORD – FRANK ROCHE, ECONOMIST December 15, 2010 HOLIDAYS, TAXES, AND SECRETS SECRETS The efforts of Julian Assange by way of Wikileaks are not those of a hero in any way, shape, or form. Governments need to have secrets, companies need to have secrets, individual human beings need to have secrets. The belief that there should be
Newsmax Romney: Tax Cut Deal No Jobs Fix Tuesday, December 14, 2010 The temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts that President Barack Obama and Republican members of Congress agreed to will not translate into large job growth or investment, and Congress should come up with a better deal, says former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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About Senator Burr | Constituent Services | Contact Me | Share with a Friend Before getting into what we worked on in Washington this week, I would like to express my deepest condolences to the family of Elizabeth Edwards. She was a passionate advocate for issues she believed in and a caring and loving mother.
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