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Budget Battles

  • Two Tax Breaks Romney Should Put on the Chop Block

    By NICOLE GELINAS, City Journal

    Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney wants to lower tax rates. Newly minted Republican vice-presidential hopeful Paul Ryan wants to cut spending by taking on America’s entitlement culture. The...

  • Romney and Ryanomics: Bad Deal for Working Class

    By Mark Thoma

    Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate makes abundantly clear that the upcoming presidential election presents a choice between two very different views on the role of government in...

  • Romney Campaign Hopes New Bounce Equals New Lead

    By Steve Holland and Sam Youngman, Reuters

    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney took vice presidential running mate Paul Ryan home to a tearful welcome in Wisconsin on Sunday in a celebratory event that produced a flash of anger from...

  • Paul Ryan’s Turbo Charged Climb Up the GOP Ladder

    By Elaine S. Povich, The Fiscal Times

    Rep. Paul Ryan, the youthful GOP vice presidential candidate whose deficit-cutting ideas are likely to reshape the presidential debates, learned politics and policy under the sway of a long string of...

  • Obama Accuses Ryan of Blocking Farm Drought Aid

    By Jeff Mason, Reuters

    President Barack Obama announced an emergency purchase of up to $170 million of meat and fish on Monday on a campaign trip to drought-hit Iowa, and accused Republican vice presidential candidate Paul...