Congress

Budget Battles

  • Highway Toll Hikes Inflate Prices, Slow Recovery

    By Brianna Ehley, The Fiscal Times

    State and metropolitan governments increasingly are raising their tolls to finance highway and light rail construction and maintenance in the face of declining federal highway aid. States and local...

  • Lower Deductions for Sweet Charities Leave Sour Taste

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    One of the key tax expenditures potentially on the chopping block is the charitable tax deduction. What would it mean for the world of philanthropy and public service if it came under real attack on...

  • Fiscal Cliff: Lawmakers May Push Deadline to 2013

    By Richard Cowan, Reuters

    Slowly 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-...

  • Battle for the White House: Ohio Can Call It

    By Josh Boak and Eric Pianin, The Fiscal Times

    Ohio just might be the definitive battleground state, with an economic recovery that both vindicates President Obama’s record and justifies Mitt Romney’s claim that massive stimulus spending never...

  • Think Negative Campaign Ads Work? Think Again

    By CLAUDIA ADRIEN-FLORIDA

    Negative political ads may pack a punch, but only with voters who trust the politicians delivering them, a new study suggests. But contrary to conventional wisdom, those ads don’t always work as well...