Posts tagged “tax cuts”
Mitt Romney does another interview in which he doesn’t answer the questions
A Rasmussen Presidential tracking poll released today confirms what has been widely suspected since friday: President Obama gained a significant “bump” in his polling numbers from the Democratic National Convention this past week. The latest Rasmussen poll puts Obama at 49% over Mitt Romney’s 45%, while the Gallup poll from Friday had Obama with a 49% [...]
A Post That Passeth All Understanding
Ezra Klein of The Washington Post had a post yesterday about CBO Director Doug Elmendorf‘s testimony before the Senate Budget Committee: CBO Director Doug Elmendorf testified before the Senate Budget Committee today and dropped something of a bombshell. Extending the Bush tax cuts, he said, will “probably reduce income relative to what would otherwise occur [...]
Rand Paul’s Hitlerism
I am sorry to report that a logical analysis of Rand Paul‘s public statements — statements he made freely and repeatedly, statements he did not feel embarrassed by even after the fact, statements he has made no move to qualify or disavow — reveals that the Paul is working towards the emergence of a Hitler-like [...]
If Size Matters, How Big Is Small?
For months and months (and months), everyone in the Republican Party claimed that if the Bush tax cuts — expiring by Republican design (that is to say, as a result of legislative games played by Bush, et al) — were not extended for the top tax brackets, economic recovery would be jeopardized because small businesses [...]
Depends On The Definition Of “Hit Hardest”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell yesterday, on the possibility (brought up by House Minority Leader John Boehner on Sunday) of giving up on extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans: We can’t let the people who’ve been hit hardest by this recession and who we need to create the jobs that will get [...]
Boehner’s Inexplicably Sane Statement on Tax Cuts
Yesterday morning, John Boehner unexpectedly declared on “Face the Nation” that if push came to shove, he would be willing to drop the demand that Republicans have been holding firm on: that they would allow the expiring Bush tax cuts to be extended for middle class Americans only if they were also extended for the [...]
A Disingenuous And Dishonest Collaboration Between Mark Zandi And The Washington Post
(1) The Washington Post has a report alleging that: …some senior Democrats are having second thoughts about raising taxes on the nation’s wealthiest families and are pressing party leaders to consider extending the full array of Bush administration tax cuts, at least through next year. Here’s the rationale put forward (by the WP, I should [...]
The Comparative Costs Of Extending The Bush Tax Cuts
Most of the stories I have seen on the subject focus on the cost of extending the tax cuts for only the wealthiest Americans. I really cannot recall reading anywhere in the mainstream media or on a liberal blog what the cost would be for the Democrats’ proposal of extending the tax cuts only for [...]
Much Better Than 1,000 Words
No amount of newspaper articles explaining that the Republicans’ plan for extending the Bush tax cuts is skewed towards the wealthiest 2% of Americans drives home the point like this well-conceived Washington Post graphic: After such knowledge, what forgiveness? (Hopefully!) Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about [...]
Boehner Won’t Say Whether He Still Believes In The Tax Fairy
Yesterday, on Meet The Press, David Gregory tried to question House Minority Leader John Boehner about this business of wholesale Republican support for extending the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans without making any effort to pay for the tax cuts in any way. He kept trying to to ask Boehner whether it’s true [...]