AUGUST 4, 2010 The Blue State Blues Taxing the rich, except in my district. One irony of the tax increase that arrives on January 1 is that the it will hit residents of high-income, Democratic-leaning states like California, Connecticut, New Jersey and New York the hardest. This is a problem for pro-tax Democrats. Enter New […]
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House rejects partial health care repeal Jul 30 06:31 PM US/Eastern By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – The House has rejected a bill that would repeal a tax filing requirement in the new health care law that could swamp businesses with paperwork.The provision requires nearly 40 million U.S. businesses to file tax
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JULY 30, 2010 Son of TARP More politically directed credit, this time for small banks. President Obama has been trying to rebut the claim that he’s antibusiness by promoting something called the Small Business Jobs Act, which would provide loans and temporary tax cuts to small businesses. If you’ve been paying attention over the last
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JULY 29, 2010 Taxes: A Defining Issue Barack Obama knows taxes define worldview. The GOP should offer voters an alternative. By DANIEL HENNINGER If the Obama presidency didn’t exist, we would have to invent it. At a time when the American people need to make some decisions about the nation’s purpose, along comes Barack Obama
Fact and Comment Fact And Comment 08.09.10, 6:00 PM ET Obama’s Soft-Core Socialism Despite White House goal to undo Reagan’s legacy, our 40th President may have the last laugh as Americans react badly to Obama’s big government bender.A comedian or satirist could not have come up with the recent scenario of Treasury Chief Timothy Geithner
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Neal Boortz: ObamaCare has stealth IRS bomb By Neal Boortz For The AJC 9:00 p.m. Friday, July 23, 2010 Now what was it that Princess Nancy Pelosi said? Oh, yeah, I remember. It was something to the effect that we were going to have to go ahead and pass ObamaCare so that we could see
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July 16, 2010 Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax By ROBERT PEAR WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an
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JULY 17, 2010 Lost in Taxation The IRS’s vast new ObamaCare powers. If it seems as if the tax code was conceived by graphic artist M.C. Escher, wait until you meet the new and not improved Internal Revenue Service created by ObamaCare. What, you’re not already on a first-name basis with your local IRS agent?
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JULY 13, 2010 The Bush Tax Cuts and the Deficit Myth Runaway government spending, not declining tax revenues, is the reason the U.S. faces dramatic budget shortfalls for years to come. By BRIAN RIEDL President Obama and congressional Democrats are blaming their trillion-dollar budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. Letting
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JULY 12, 2010 U.S. Weighs Tax That Has VAT of Political Trouble By JOHN D. MCKINNON At least 139 countries, including most major economies except the U.S., levy a value-added tax on goods and services. Amid swelling deficits, there are increasingly loud calls in Washington for adopting a value added tax. John McKinnon discusses. But
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