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6 ways to make tax reform happen
Here are six ideas that can guide Congress to a tax reform-deal that both parties should be able to live with – a deal that will raise necessary revenue and help pay down the debt.
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Deficit commission: Four things both sides may agree on
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6 ways to make tax reform happen
Here are six ideas that can guide Congress to a tax reform-deal that both parties should be able to live with – a deal that will raise necessary revenue and help pay down the debt.
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Tax VOX The real lesson about capping itemized deductions
The campaign of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has criticized the Tax Policy Center for new research that provides evidence that a deduction cap is a pretty good, though insufficient, idea, Gleckman writes.
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Decoder Wire Bipartisan powers, activate! Can Congress's debt avengers be superheroes?
Once again, Washington's bipartisan, blue-ribbon, out-of-power elite gathers to urge Congress to break the gridlock and do the right thing on the nation's looming financial Armageddon.
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Patty Murray: Democrats will go over 'fiscal cliff' unless GOP relents
No. 4 Senate Democrat says that Republicans must agree to let tax cuts expire for the richest Americans or face a tax hike for all – a move that lifts a page from the GOP playbook.
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Fight brewing in Congress over budget, taxes
Last year, Congress put off hard decisions on the country's finances, but they are coming due in an election-year showdown.
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Key Senate Democrat resists push to renew Bush tax cuts before election
House Republicans want to extend the Bush tax cuts sooner rather than later. Sen. Max Baucus, Senate Finance Committee chief, said Monday the tax code is a 'hydra' – and that lawmakers should lay groundwork and trust before tackling it.
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Keen on slashing the national debt? Ron Paul is your man.
Ron Paul ranks as the one candidate among four whose announced policies would leave America with a lower national debt than it would have under a status quo course, according to a new analysis.
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A Medicare reform plan that just might work
Democrat Ron Wyden and Republican Paul Ryan have announced a bipartisan plan to fix Medicare, on a day when Washington couldn't even figure out how to keep the government running
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Five days left: Would failure by budget super committee matter?
As the “super committee” deadline approaches, some say it won’t be disaster if the panel fails to deliver. The battles will just be fought again after the next election – and maybe then the side with the best ideas will have more political clout.
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Zen deficit reduction?
The American public may have just convinced Congress to do a better job in negotiating deficit reduction the next time around
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Medicare: How Paul Ryan's budget would change it
Medicare would be transformed under Rep. Paul Ryan's 2012 budget released Tuesday. Future Medicare recipients would get fixed payments to purchase private insurance.
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Ease corporate tax by hitting up shareholders
A higher tax on investors and a lower tax on corporations could keep more investments in the US.
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Could a voucher system replace Medicare?
If Democrats can stop defending Medicare, and Republicans allow the 2010 health law to take effect, a voucher system might work.
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What happens if Congress doesn't rein in national debt?
With the national debt at 90% of gross domestic product, the US could face a crisis if creditors raise interest rates, experts say.
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Cockeyed optimists and the federal budget
Will congressional Republicans and President Obama reach a budget deal this year?
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Budget cuts pour gas on Republican flame
The coming debate over spending cuts has nothing to do with reviving the economy.
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Medicare: Time to privatize? GOP ponders.
Medicare could be replaced with a fixed payment to buy private insurance, according to one Republican proposal.
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Opinion: To keep youth vote, Democrats should repeal Obamacare
Forcing young people to buy expensive health insurance (and subsidize the old and sick) isn't good for the Democrats, and it isn't good for young people.
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Opinion: US debt: We can run, but we can't hide (Obama tax deal or not)
Tackling the $13.8 trillion federal debt isn't a partisan issue. It's a matter of America's future prosperity. Extending Bush-era tax cuts may make economic sense now, but President Obama and Congress must come together and make tough decisions to cut spending and raise revenue.
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Q&A with Congressman Paul Ryan
At a Dec. 2 Monitor breakfast, soon to be House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R) of Wisconsin discussed what he likes in the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform's final report, but why he planned to vote against it.
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Is deficit commission wrong? Critics say there's no national debt crisis.
President Obama's deficit commission says the national debt requires urgent action. But economists are split on that basic premise.
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Deficit commission's work is finished. What happens next?
A 60 percent majority on Obama's bipartisan deficit commission say they approved the co-chairs' recommendations, not enough to force a vote in Congress. Will their work have an impact?
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Don't believe the hype: The deficit proposals are plenty progressive.
Let's agree on the facts, regardless of the politics: the Bowles-Simpson plan and Rivlin-Domenici plan will raise taxes on the rich. Not marginal tax rates, but average tax rates.
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The Monitor's View: After the deficit commission, on to Plan B
Without 14 votes in favor, the deficit commission draft plan won't be formally recommended to Congress. That will mean considering pieces of it, or other ideas, to reduce the deficit.
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Deficit commission: Four things both sides may agree on
Thursday headlines note the failure of President Obama's bipartisan deficit commission to reach consensus, but the opposite is also true to some extent. Key Democrats and Republicans on the commission voiced agreement on some important things during the panel's public meeting Wednesday. Sooner or later, these points of common ground could help pave the way for legislation.
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