Alice Rivlin, a member of Obama’s deficit commission (technically, the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform), tells Damian Paletta at The Wall Street Journal that Congress should compromise on tax cuts by pushing the floor higher.
The White House and most Democrats want to extend the Bush tax More…
This summer, Social Security – the government program that provides a steady check for seniors – turned 75. In Washington, lawmakers celebrated its platinum anniversary not with champagne, but with a heated argument over whether to reform the costly entitlement program by slashing benefits or raising the retirement age. Indeed, More…
There’s a message emerging from Republicans in Congress that says this: rising unemployment numbers are indication that the Democrats’ strategy for economic recovery has been a sheer failure, and they should be removed from office as a result.
What the critics don’t mention is the inconvenient More…
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