Elections

Budget Battles

  • Romney Needs Tea Party Support for Tax Plan

    By Kim Dixon, Reuters

    If Mitt Romney is elected president on November 6, he likely would look to fellow Republicans in Congress to fill in the blanks of a framework to slash rates and pare deductions as part of an...

  • Romney Even or Ahead of Obama in 3 New Polls

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    Republican Mitt Romney, just weeks ago considered on the verge of irrelevance, swung back into contention after the first presidential debate last week with three new polls showing the former...

  • Veep Sweeps: 5 Ways Ryan Can Beat Biden

    By Liz Peek

    Paul Ryan’s job on Thursday night when he squares off against Vice President Joe Biden is to convince voters that he is not a loon. Biden’s challenge is to sell himself as a responsible manager of...

  • Will the Veep Debate Help Ryan Get His Mojo Back?

    By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

    By drafting House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney was supposedly adding a franchise player to the GOP ticket, but the Wisconsin congressman thus far has tarnished...

  • The New War over Low-Wage Workers’ Tax Breaks

    By Merrill Goozner, The Fiscal Times

    The Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit--both geared to low-income earners--encourage work over welfare. But they may get the axe if the government drives over the fiscal cliff at the...