Topic: Bill Gale

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Buffett rule: All about capital gains

Obama's objection—and Buffett’s—is not with rates paid by the average taxpayer who makes a million dollars or more a year Rather it is with those in this group who make most of their money from investments.
Class warfare? Hardly.

Opinions on the president's debt plan
Do Republicans want to cut taxes on the rich and raise them on the rest?

Raising taxes on low to moderate income households while the wealthy get breaks may be bad politics, but the concept isn't new
Don’t fall for a repatriation holiday

Companies who choose to bring foreign earnings back home shouldn't get a tax break on them
The deficit, euphemisms, and hard choices

To reduce the deficit, politicians need to start being more frank in their discussions
Cockeyed optimists and the federal budget

Will congressional Republicans and President Obama reach a budget deal this year?
NY Times: OK, you fix the budget

The New York Times presents readers the chance to try to balance the federal budget.
The biggest tax policy mistake of the year

While politicians debate 2011 tax policy, Congress's inconvenient truth is that they still haven't passed the tax code for 2010.
A credible plan to cut the budget deficit

The plan, which includes a spending cap and carbon tax, would cut the budget deficit to less than 1 percent of GDP by 2020.
You pay someone to fill out IRS forms? Outrageous!

Call it Uncle Sam's hidden mandate. IRS forms are so complex 89 percent of taxpayers spend money for help getting them filled out.
Oh yeah, that social security problem…

Social security reform took a back seat to healthcare reform, but the Congressional Budget Office has recently announced that the program will be in the red this year – far sooner than expected.