fiscal cliff
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Budgets/Taxes
Should We Watch Wile E. Coyote Go Off the Cliff?
by Barry Poulson and John Merrifield September 18, 2018For generations, one of the great joys in life has been watching Roadrunner cartoons, during which the Roadrunner always manages to find a way to trick Wile E. Coyote into running off a massive cliff.
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President Obama said at his increasingly notorious press conference on Monday, “America cannot afford another debate with this Congress about whether or not they should pay the bills they have…
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Despite the lies, spin, and spun lies pouring from the mouths of nearly everyone involved in the “fiscal cliff” negotiations or speaking for those who are involved in them, some…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsLibertyPolitics
VID: This Country Needs to Cut the Spending!
by Jim Lakely January 1, 2013Behold a righteous rant against the Fiscal Cliff deal from a fan of Andrew Breitbart with the YouTube handle newsninja2012 … who happens to be black. No commentary is necessary,…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsPoliticsTaxes
Is President Obama Really A Socialist? Let’s Analyze Obamanomics
by Peter Ferrara December 23, 2012President Obama says that income taxes must be raised on the rich because they don’t pay their fair share. The indisputable facts from official government sources say otherwise. The CBO…
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Budgets/TaxesPoliticsTaxes
On Counterinsurgency and Negotiating the Fiscal Cliff
by Benjamin Domenech December 16, 2012Why are Republicans so bad at the game of negotiations? Consider a thought experiment: What if, the moment President Obama months ago suggested that he wanted to continue the Bush…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsPoliticsTaxes
The Fiscal Cliff: It Really Is the Fault of Republicans
by Steve Stanek December 14, 2012There’s a lot of handwringing among some grassroots Republicans over Republicans in Congress starting to cave to Obama administration demands regarding tax increases to avoid the fiscal cliff. Have they…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsPoliticsTaxes
Obama: Planting the Seeds of His Own Demise
by Peter Ferrara December 10, 2012Stop that cringing! I can already see the light at the end of the tunnel. And it’s not pretty for today’s neo-Marxist Democrat party. The man you see before you…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsTaxes
Hypocrite Warren Buffett Makes Money On Tax Breaks He Discredits
by Steve Stanek December 9, 2012[First published in Investors Business Daily.] There he goes again, Warren Buffett bleating about the supposed need for government to more heavily tax high-income earners while he owns life insurance…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsPoliticsTaxes
After The Fiscal Cliff or Grand Bargain
by Jim Johnston December 8, 2012A great deal of attention is currently being paid to the fiscal cliff and a grand bargain. If the past is any indicator, under either event taxes will go up…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsLiberty
For The Republicans There’s An Opportunity At The Fiscal Cliff
by Peter Ferrara November 26, 2012[First posted at Forbes.] The fiscal cliff will not be a new topic to regular readers of this column. I have been writing about it for almost two years, including…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomics
Obama’s Coming Crash: The President’s Recession Of 2013
by Peter Ferrara October 23, 2012[Co-written by Newt Gingrich.] So far, Obamanomics has produced the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression. But if Obamanomics is not stopped, next year it will produce…