News & Updates
Top Headlines: December 14, 2010
The Hill – Huge Majority votes for cloture on Senate tax bill
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Washington Post – Tax package clears Senate, Fmr. Treas Sec O’neill disagreed w/ Bush on cuts. (video)
http://wapo.st/i6L6s2
WSJ – Tax Code puts US in bind
http://online.wsj.com/home-page
Boston Globe – Tax Deal passes senate – McConnell’s view – “But the Senate’s minority leader, Mitch McConnell, a Republican from Kentucky, said in a floor speech that the compromise was an essential first step toward addressing the nation’s deficit, by “cutting off the spigot’’ of tax income to the federal government to force Congress to make spending cuts.”
http://bit.ly/gm3WuC
Politico – House Dems focus on Estate Tax amendment
CVH -”Are Republicans really willing to hold up tax relief for millions of Americans, middle class Americans and others in order to provide a $25 billion hit to the deficit that benefits 6,600 estates at an average benefit of $1.8 million? We’ve never had that debate,” he said on MSNBC Monday, according to a report in the Daily Caller.
Opinion
WSJ Marketwatch – Brett Ahrends on three bankruptcies, Obama, Republicans and the US
http://bit.ly/gLiFjM
Missoulian – Main Street needs customers not tax cuts (MSA)
http://bit.ly/dMmJIZ
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The Tax Compromise is Just the Start
While Congress and the President have reached a temporary deal on the Bush era tax cuts, there is still much work to be done. Click below to see what issues are still in play, and what’s up next for the tax debate.
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