Harry Reid hints that millionaire surtax may be revived in conference committee
(Center for American Progress)
As Greg Sargent took note today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is talking about bringing back the millionaire surtax. It was scuttled in the battle to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut and other matters:
Harry Reid hints that millionaire surtax may be revived in conference committee
(Center for American Progress)
As Greg Sargent took note today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is talking about bringing back the millionaire surtax. It was scuttled in the battle to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut and other matters:
Harry Reid hints that millionaire surtax may be revived in conference committee
(Center for American Progress)
As Greg Sargent took note today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is talking about bringing back the millionaire surtax. It was scuttled in the battle to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut and other matters:
Harry Reid hints that millionaire surtax may be revived in conference committee
(Center for American Progress)
As Greg Sargent took note today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is talking about bringing back the millionaire surtax. It was scuttled in the battle to extend the Social Security payroll tax cut and other matters:
Was our military crippled in 2007?
Even with a few less of these, we'll be all right.
Pentagon Budget: (.XLS file)
2011: $712.655 billion
With the failure of the Super Congress, the Pentagon is facing a $600 billion cut over 10 years, or $60 billion per year. That would be a $662.655 ...
Axelrod: Obama perhaps ‘too eager’ to play nice with GOP
David Axelrod confers with President Barack Obama (White House photo)
Obama's top strategist, David Axelrod:
"I’m not willing to assign, sort of, equal blame for what’s happened in Washington. You know, there are Democrats in this room who I thin...
House passes stopgap government funding bill
By a vote of 219-203, the House just voted to pass a temporary funding bill that will keep the federal government in operation through November 18. Twenty-four Republicans voted nay and six Democrats voted aye.
Earlier today, Joan McCarter posted a go...
We cut the deficit in half and all we got in return was a lousy economy and bad poll numbers
We've got our priorities upside down
Back in January, here's what the CBO projected in its 10-year budget outlook for fiscal years 2012 to 2021:
Total revenues: $39.084 trillion
Total outlays: $46.055 trillion
Total surplus/deficit: $-6.971 tr...
Big-Spending Bureaucrats
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There's this persistent idea that government spending is akin to decadent and frivolous consumer spending. People speak of "greedy government bureaucrats" lusting after tax dollars as though they were hedonists seeking their ne...
