Help Wanted: President Obama’s Job Plans Faces A Reluctant Congress
President Obama raises the curtain Thursday night on a $400 billion plan to jump start the nation’s economy. It’s called the American Job Act. But will it work? It would pour thousands of jobs into the...
View ArticleObama’s $447 Billion Jobs Plan – Tax Cuts For Employees And Employers
President Barack Obama urged Congress Thursday night to pass a proposed $447 billion plan “right away” that would extend and expand the payroll tax cut to workers for another year and, for the first...
View ArticleTaxes And Debt: Where The Left And Right Might Dare To Agree
Alan Blinder, an economics professor at Princeton University, was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton. Glenn Hubbard, dean of Columbia University’s Graduate School...
View ArticleObama’s Deficit Speech As A Word Cloud
For those of you who want to read it the old fashioned way, here’s President Obama’s full speech: Good morning, everybody. Please have a seat. A week ago today, I sent Congress the American Jobs Act....
View ArticleObama Takes To LinkedIn Stage To Advance Jobs Agenda
President Barack Obama took to the new media stage at LinkedIn in Silicon Valley this afternoon (Sept. 26) to speak to a studio and online audience about his $450 billion jobs proposal, signaling yet...
View ArticleCalling For Volunteers: A National Debt Reduction Tax
There are a lot of ideas on how to address the looming crisis of trillion dollar annual deficits and a $14 trillion national debt. Congress has ideas and so does the President. All of the ideas involve...
View ArticleIRS Cuts Would Mean Loss Of Essential Services, $4 Billion In Revenue
The Internal Revenue Service would face a “devastating” loss of $4 billion in revenue collected each year if proposed cuts of up to $600 million are made from the agency’s budget, Colleen Kelley,...
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