The coming right-wing clash over the ‘half that pay no taxes’
In recent years, few Republican talking points have been regurgitated as often as the myth that almost half of Americans pay no taxes. Just last week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor complained "we have to question whether that's fair," insisting "yo...
House Republicans consider pushing Bush tax cut extension fight before election
This is the image Republicans want to embrace for 2012.
What's making the House Republican leadership feel so big in their britches is a little hard to fathom, but they seem convinced their fortunes are looking brighter. Right after they passed a bud...
How the GOP stole America
There are issues that are difficult to understand. The mass-endowing properties of a Higgs field, the intricacies of protein folding, the appeal of the Kardashians. There are issues of opinion; issues of faith; issues simply lacking enough facts t...
CBO: House GOP’s payroll tax cut package would add $23.5 billion to deficit
House Speaker John Boehner
It's well-established that Republicans don't really care about the deficit, not when reducing it means making the 1 percent help the country out a little. So, for those keeping track of just how much the Republicans don't ...
Boehner payroll tax cut package exposes the many sides of GOP hypocrisy
Speaker John Boehner. Hypocrite. (Yuri Gripas/Reuters)
This will come as no surprise to anyone who's been paying close attention, but Congressional Republicans—and specifically John Boehner—are full of shit. The payroll tax cut extension exposes ...
John Boehner in tight spot over payroll tax extension
House Speaker John Boehner (Larry Downing/Reuters)
House Speaker John Boehner remains in a bit of a pickle over the end of year work Congress has to do, including the payroll tax cut extension, the perennial Medicare payments to doctors fix, extendin...
Republicans split over payroll tax cut extension deepens
House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have a problem on their hands.
(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
If you're a regular Daily Kos reader, you already knew this, but today the Washington Post is reporting on the split betwee...
Bipartisan pair of senators introduce new payroll tax cut approach
Sen. Claire McCaskill
Senators Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Susan Collins (R-ME) think they have a way around the Republican canard that a surtax on income over $1 million would be a "job killer." They are introducing a plan today that would exempt th...
Democrats’ bill on payroll tax extension would be paid for by millionaires
Republicans want your taxes to go up. (Think Progress/yfrog)
The payroll tax cuts extension bill that Senate Democrats introduced yesterday would be funded by a 3.25 percent surtax on income over a million dollars. To find out what that would mean fo...
