By: mitakeet
At this point I am actually hoping that we ‘go over the cliff’. I think that once the rates reset and the cuts fall on defense everyone will get a lot more negotiable. Even if they don’t, at least we...
View ArticleBy: Jim
What happens if the predicted recession does not occur? We are going back to the tax rates of the nineties are we not, when the country managed to get along just fine.
View ArticleBy: urban legend
Will the NYT, Washington Post, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN and AP be honest enough to trumpet the fact that there’s nothing to the so-called counter-offer. If they do their job — I do not expect it from...
View ArticleBy: Fred Donaldson
If you spend your life in school, then decades attending “functions”, would you be ready for Medicare at 67, the new age requested by the GOP budget? Actually, would you need Medicare, or would health...
View ArticleBy: Bumpa
The R’s aren’t FOR anything other than establishing themselves as the chosen few. SS and Medicare have NOTHING to do with the deficit, should be taken OFF the table and NOT brought up again! I’m of the...
View ArticleBy: Bumpa
Republicans had it right to not trust the government, they’ve succeeded in making it as ineffectual as they can. We know who is to blame for this state of affairs.
View ArticleBy: Susan Duclos
—–The time for stuff like this—”new revenue would be generated through pro-growth tax reform that closes special interest loopholes and deductions while lowering rates”—is long past. That formulation...
View ArticleBy: Jared Bernstein
Read the second bullet from the WH analysis. You’d have to phase it in, which gets you to $650 bn. And that’s a cap on all deductions–not what the R’s said. They said “close loopholes.” Once they go...
View ArticleBy: PeonInChief
Has anyone thought about whether or not increasing the eligibility age for Medicare wouldn’t cost more money, in that people who are in their early sixties and just waiting to get Medicare so that they...
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