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Romney tax plan: How rich could pay the 'same' and still pay less
Romney promises to make the rich keep paying a constant percentage of all US income taxes. That's very different from asking them to pay a constant share of their earnings.
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Mitt Romney pitches smaller government: Is his target realistic?
While President Obama sees sizable government as fostering economic growth, Mitt Romney wants to cap federal spending at 20 percent of GDP. Is that goal feasible – and economically helpful?
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Economist Mom
Romney, Obama and the long, partisan road to tax reformWhen it comes to tax reform, there is a lot of common ground, but still many differences, between Romney's approach and Obama's approach, Rogers writes.
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Where did the mammoth US budget deficits come from?
Let's go back about a decade, when budget surpluses were predicted for the foreseeable future. Somehow, the math went terribly wrong, by trillions of dollars. Here's an accounting of what happened.
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Economist Mom
CBO releases new budget outlook. What does it tell us?The basic message of the Congressional Budget Office's new budget outlook isn't really new, but it highlights the gap between the deficit and the laws we are making to pay for it.
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Briefing
D.C. Decoder 101: How Washington spends your moneyThere's a lot of talk about cutting the US deficit but very little actual cutting of deficit. One reason? There's not much easy to cut. Decoder explains the six ways Washington spends money.
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Economist Mom
CBO budget outlook: a long-term view of the 'fiscal cliff'While this year's report doesn't offer anything new, the long-term budget outlook is a good way to take a step back from current policy debates and put impending decisions in the context of the bigger picture .
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Tax VOX
Experts: The 'Buffett rule' is a terrible ideaTax policy experts disagree on many things, including what the definition of 'rich' is. But they agree that imposing a minimum tax of any kind is an admission of policy failure.
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The economic fallout of 'Linsanity'
Jeremy Lin is not only changing mainstream America's view of Asians. The New York Knicks star could broaden the aspirations of Asian-Americans themselves.
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The New Economy
How to raise taxes on millionaires without really tryingForget the 'millionaire surtax.' The better way to tax millionaires is to broaden the tax base – and let all those Bush tax cuts expire.
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Economist Mom
Obama's budget has some bold movesIn terms of tax policy, the president's budget has a few intriguing new provisions.
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Economist Mom
New economic outlook report is overly optimisticThe Congressional Budget Office’s economic outlook is out, and it doesn't seem all that bad Except that the CBO baseline is a projection of current-law policies, which assume a lot of very optimistic things about Congress’s proclivity toward fiscally responsible behavior.
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The Vote
CBO knows its deficit forecasts are too cheery. So what will really happen?The CBO is forecasting a $1.1 trillion deficit in 2012, followed by several years of a much lower amount. But CBO officials know that's a fantasy, so it has prepared a more pessimistic outlook.
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The New Economy
Working beyond 65 can be good. Is it right?Raising the retirement age would shore up America's shaky finances while extending activity and satisfaction for many workers. But raising the retirement age isn't right for everyone.
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The New Economy
In budget battle, voters are the 'adults in the room'Politicians on both extremes think voters want stubborness in the budget battle. They're wrong.
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Economist Mom
The muddled economics of the payroll tax cutThe current debate over extending the payroll tax cut well demonstrates that policymakers often mean different things when referring to policies that “help” or “expand” the economy.
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Economist Mom
Elmo's solution to the budget crisis: Play datesA bipartisan solution to the budget problem will require basic listening and engagement–the same things required for children to play well together
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Economist Mom
The US fiscal situation can be solvedOur deficits are still being sustained at the moment, and U.S. Treasury bonds are a safe investment. But the nation must address the gap between spending and revenues to avoid a full-blown crisis.
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Economist Mom
Occupy ourselves!Before assigning blame, we need to figure out each of our own roles in the economic mess that inspired "Occupy Wall Street."
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The New Economy
Sorry, Occupy Wall Street: There's no 1 percent solutionOccupy Wall Street rage is justified, but the boundary between the 1 percent and the rest of Americans is not so crisp.
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Economist Mom
AARP's offensive new ad campaignAARP's new ad campaign deems Social Security and Medicare benefits off limits. But would most members agree with that position if they understood it was just insuring that even more of the debt would be shifted to their children and grandchildren?
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The New Economy
Tuition costs high. But they earn 15 percent a year.Tuition costs and other associated expenses for college average around $102,000. But the return on tuition costs in terms of increased earnings is about $570,000.
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Amending Social Security: how to's surface during national debt talks
Obama put Social Security on the table as part of his bid to resolve the national debt crisis. Democrats in Congress oppose any cut in benefits. But politicians know reforms must come, eventually, to keep Social Security solvent.
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GOP quandary: Is a vote to eliminate tax breaks actually a tax hike?
One of the few potential points of bipartisan compromise in the budget stalemate is reining in tax breaks. A Senate vote Tuesday could reveal whether GOP senators are on board.
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Tax VOX
Any place for budget caps?Budget caps are supposed to be a last resort, but they actually allow lawmakers to mindlessly slash spending and raise taxes across the board
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