It would be easy to overreact to a memo from the National Parks Service this week that said looming across-the-board budget cuts, known as sequestration, would shrink... Read more »
"I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase," President Barack Obama promised during his... Read more »
A new Congress opened for business Thursday to confront long-festering national problems, deficits and immigration among them, in an intensely partisan and... Read more »
The payroll-tax holiday wasn’t extended and will expire on Monday. Read more »
While the tax package that Congress passed New Year's Day will protect 99 percent of Americans from an income tax increase, most of them will still end up paying more... Read more »
This week, as negotiations on averting the "fiscal cliff" have continued, discussions on the impacts on that potential recession trigger have continued. Multiple... Read more »
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