Budget Battles
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Republicans Want Strings Attached to California Disaster Aid
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Biden Goes Out With a Bang in the Jobs Market
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Trump Privately Pushes Senators for ‘One Big, Beautiful Bill’
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Trump Considers Declaring National Emergency for Tariff Rollout
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Trump Unloads: Grievances, Greenland and the Gulf of Mexico
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Republicans Divided Over How to Pass Trump’s Agenda
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Trump Pushes Johnson to Victory as Speaker
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GOP Leaders Take on Far Right Pressure Groups
By Eric PianinThere have been plenty of theories about why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) strode onstage at a conservative gathering late last week carrying a rifle. Ostensibly, McConnell, the 72-...
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Some CEOs Are Still Cashing In at Our Expense
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesMany of the highest paid CEOs might be ripping off stockholders and taxpayers, according to a study released Wednesday by the progressive Institute for Policy Studies.
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Tax Reform Could Be Easier Than Congress Thinks
The conservative-leaning Tax Foundation issued a press release Monday touting some “good news for tax reformers”: An analysis by experts at the foundation found that a plan to dramatically simplify...
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‘The Daily Show’ Explains Why Our ‘Chicken$#!&’ Congress Hasn’t Reformed the Tax Code
Congress may be out on its month-long August recess, but that doesn’t mean “The Daily Show” stops its skewering. Last night, host John Oliver took on our broken tax code – and used the issue to take...
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How 21 Major Corporations Dodged $93B in Taxes
By Eric Pianin and Josh BoakTwenty-one of the top 100 publicly traded U.S. corporations – including such big names as Goldman Sachs, Apple and Walt Disney – have avoided paying $93 billion a year in federal taxes by parking...
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Obama’s Bargain: Lower Rates for Higher Spending
By Eric PianinPresident Obama intends to make one last pitch for a “grand bargain” of new spending and tax policy on Tuesday that will attempt to marry corporate tax reform with funding for jobs to benefit the...
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Ominous Signs for the GOP in 2014
By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal TimesThe conventional wisdom is that Republicans are in good shape going into next year’s congressional elections. Gerrymandering and the enormous benefits of incumbency virtually guarantee them continued...
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Trading Tax Write-Offs for Real Growth
By Andrew Fieldhouse, The Fiscal TimesOverhauling the tax code is a wonky fixation of the D.C. policymaking elite, for good reason — it’s an area loaded with policy nuance, lobbying intrigue and major ramifications for long-term fiscal...
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IRS Scandal: How the Brouhaha Went Bust
By Peter Weber, TheWeek.comRep. Darrell Issa is still banging the scandal drum. Is anyone listening anymore?
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Beer, Burgers, and a Two-Man Blitz on Tax Reform
By Josh Boak, The Fiscal TimesSen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) are keeping hope alive that the tax code can be rewritten. Both peg the odds of successful reform at more than 50 percent, according to a joint lunch...
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Fiscal Cliff: Lawmakers May Push Deadline to 2013
By Richard Cowan, ReutersSlowly and quietly, the U.S. Congress may be arriving at a consensus on how to avoid falling off the "fiscal cliff" on December 31 - by simply putting off its own deadline for most of the major year-...
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Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes in 2011
By ReutersRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney paid $1.9 million in taxes on more than $13 million in income in 2011 for an effective tax rate of 14.1 percent, his campaign said on Friday ahead of the...
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Romney’s “Victims” vs. Obama’s “Cash Cows”
With the conventions wrapped, and the presidential race in full swing, voters now have a much clearer idea of how each candidate will run the country -- thanks to two previously unheard pieces of...
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After Many Gaffes, Debates Are Romney’s Last Stand
By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal TimesDiscord among Romney’s top campaign aides and the subsequent surfacing of a video of Romney telling wealthy donors last May that the 47 percent of Americans who “pay no income tax” are victims living...
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“Makers” Take Lion’s Share of Tax Breaks
By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal TimesRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s impolitic comments at a fundraiser in Florida last May shed light on his attitude toward the 46 percent of the population that paid no federal income...