Perfect storm on killing tax cuts?
This is passing “institutional cowardice” and is rapidly approaching the status of “blackmail threat:” Democratic leaders are likely to punt the task of renewing Bush-era tax cuts until after the...
View ArticleExtending tax cuts: rhetoric meets reality.
The basic situation? The Democratic party is facing a dilemma of more or less its own doing with the looming end of Bush-era tax cuts. The party generally ran on a program of repealing them for the...
View ArticleDid the White House make Bill Clinton recant opposition to job-killing tax...
As the American Action Forum (AAF) notes, pretty much. Quick background: it more or less got overlooked, but former President Clinton argued yesterday (June 5th) that it would be advisable for the...
View ArticleJonathan Chait (unintentionally) lays out the case for ending the Hollywood...
Is Jonathan Chait not feeling well? Not so much for writing the below, but for writing the below (as AoSHQ Headlines notes) so baldly. The topic was the Left’s domination of television/movies; Chait...
View ArticleScott Walker (R, Wisconsin) planning state income tax cuts.
He’s also planning to freeze property taxes as much as possible, but Walker is thinking about how to lower Wisconsin’s state income tax rates for upcoming years. Walker didn’t discuss how much of an...
View ArticleHow cute: the NYT still thinks Obama won the tax cut fight.
Really, this is adorable: [David Plouffe] rejected the suggestion that Mr. Obama, who forced Republicans to accept higher taxes on the wealthy after re-election, has been too passive. Not the passive...
View ArticleSo, why *did* @BarackObama agree to permanently extending most of ‘the Bush...
I must admit, Grover Norquist has a point here: The second great game changer was Obama’s decision to extend and make permanent 85 percent of the Bush tax cuts—the cuts of 2001, 2003, and the AMT...
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