Focus on real crisis: Tax cuts, not Social Security, are the ...
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Even if President Bush could snap his fingers and magically &quot;fix&quot; Social Security tomorrow morning, the nation would still be facing a fiscal crisis.
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Maryland's efforts to close a gaping budget shortfall next year could result in higher income taxes for the state's more affluent residents -- and a possible break for those earning less.
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President Bush ruled out raising  payroll taxes to help pay for Social Security reform on  Thursday, leaving him few options other than a sharp increase  in government borrowing to bankroll transition costs estimated  at up to $2 trillion.
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Social Security and tax code changes could strain the federal budget. The president could use a rising GDP.
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Forget about cutting the size of bonuses: letâs start really thinking about the possibility of slashing jobs.
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MANILA When President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared this week that the Philippines was &quot;already in the midst of a fiscal crisis,&quot; many thought she was just stating the obvious.
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Budget impasses and growing deficit raise concern about long-term economic growth and retiree benefits.
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Looking at alternate plans for Social Security
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U.S. News & World Report - One issue the next president will have to deal with is whether to extend the 2001 and 2003 Bush tax cuts that reduced tax rates on income and investments and expanded the child tax credit. U.S. News caught up with Republican presidential candidate and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani last Saturday after he had just finished speaking at a &quot;tax summit&quot; campaign event in Manchester, N.H. There, Giuliani offered his case for making the Bush cuts permanent, killing the estate tax (or &quot;death tax,&quot; as he puts it), indexing the alternative minimum tax to inflation, and lowering corporate  ...
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Our position is: Expansion of government control isn&#39;t the answer to US health-care problems. Soaring health care costs are taking an ever-larger share out of employee paychecks and eating into employer profits.
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Take steps now to escape the Alternative Minimum Tax.
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Republicans launched a counteroffensive yesterday against a Democrat-inspired Congressional Budget Office analysis, saying the study actually shows that President Bush&#39;s tax cuts have reduced the overall tax burden for middle-income ...
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If you really want to get discouraged about the prospects for property tax relief, consider the numbers as the state closes the books on what is turning out to be a banner year for taxes, if not taxpayers.
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Manila - The Philippines was in the midst of a fiscal crisis and the public should be prepared to make sacrifices, President Gloria Arroyo said yesterday.
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Here's a new approach to tax season: Slow down.
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The Philippines is facing a fiscal crisis, President Gloria Arroyo said Monday. Arroyo is seeking political support for a $1.4 billion tax package that faces opposition in Congress.
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Washington Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein discusses whether the economy is entering a recession.