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Who's who on Congress's debt 'super committee'
Congress has created a special super committee to find at least $1.2 trillion in US budget cuts. If the plan is voted down, automatic spending cuts are slated to occur. Here are the 12 lawmakers named to the super committee.
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Tax VOX
Tax reform: The cases for going long-term, versus going prudent
As a behind-the-scenes debate begins among reformers over just how to fix the US tax code, some Republicans insist that big, broad-based reform would be easier to accomplish, while others in Congress advocate for a more step-by-step process.
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Tax VOX
A path forward on tax reform: 4 steps
Tax reform will be difficult, but with a four-step road map, it can be done.
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Tax VOX
It's time to stop squabbling about the Bush tax cuts
Instead of arguing over an old law, lawmakers need to decide how much tax revenue is needed and then figure out how to raise it. If they don't, there will be no serious deficit reduction and no tax reform.
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Tax VOX
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.
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From jobs plan to tax cuts, can deficit ‘super committee’ handle mission creep?
The bipartisan deficit 'super committee' is charged with finding $1.5 trillion in savings over 10 years. Can it find $450 billion more to fund Obama's jobs plan? Can it find $4 trillion? More?
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Social Security: Ponzi scheme or political football?
Social Security debate reignited with Rick Perry's critique of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme.
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Who's who on Congress's debt 'super committee'
Congress has created a special super committee to find at least $1.2 trillion in US budget cuts. If the plan is voted down, automatic spending cuts are slated to occur. Here are the 12 lawmakers named to the super committee.
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Tax VOX
John Boehner’s moment of truth
Will the Speaker of the House be able to take 'yes' for an answer?
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Tax VOX
Who pays no income tax? It is the wrong question.
The real question is: Who benefits most from more than $1 trillion in tax preferences?
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Tax VOX
Obama, Ryan, and the massive chasm that divides them
After the president's speech, it's clear that an historic fiscal debate between Democrats and Republicans is still to come
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Economist Mom
Obama's chance to get back in the game
The president has an opportunity to take a liberal stance on reducing the deficit. Will he take it?
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Tax VOX
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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The New Economy
Cut the deficit? A job for kindergartners.
All that congressional budget-cutters need to know, they learned in kindergarten.
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Tax VOX
Conrad makes a case against tax subsidies
Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad is an important player in tax reform.
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Is a US debt crisis two years away? Commission chairs call for a fix 'now.'
The chairmen of Obama's debt commission had a receptive audience in the Senate Budget Committee, as fears of a US debt crisis have brought a new tone of urgency to Washington.
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Tax VOX
Little rebellions against party orthodoxy
A few Republicans and Democrats are turning away from their party's ideology. Can this lead to a bipartisan budget deal?
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Video: Social Security isn't part of budget problem, says OMB director
Jacob Lew, director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), says Social Security 'is essentially a parallel issue.' But this doesn't mean policymakers shouldn't address its challenges.
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Video: Backroom bipartisan talks 'positive,' says Obama budget director
Jacob Lew responded Thursday to a report that some senators are working on legislation that would trigger tax hikes and spending cuts if Congress fails to live within spending targets.
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Robert Reich
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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Giving adulthood a bad name in D.C.
Washington may have glommed onto the phrase 'adult conversation' to spice up the debate on fiscal reform.
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Economist Mom
Deficit reduction plan: Durbin and Bixby weigh in
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) and the Concord Coalition's Bob Bixby comment on the impact of the Bowles-Simpson deficit reduction proposal.
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If Americans had a vote, would they back deficit commission report?
Americans appear to back the intent of the bipartisan commission report – cutting the deficit – but it is less clear whether they approve of the panel's dramatic solutions.
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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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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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Erskine Bowles: a Democrat willing to swing the budget ax
Erskine Bowles is co-chairman of the presidential deficit commission, which votes Friday on US fiscal plan. As president of the University of North Carolina system, he's no stranger to budget-cutting. He's had to trim more than $550 million and 1,000 jobs.
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