McConnell Backs Panel With Focus on Funding Cuts, Not Tax Hikes
Jan. 30 — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell endorsed a deficit-cutting commission that would focus only on reducing spending, including for the Medicare and Social Security programs, and take any tax increases off the table.
Labor angry over Obama-backed insurance tax
Labor leaders are pushing hard on President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats to drop a proposed new tax on high-value health insurance plans, warning of political consequences.
Nelson, Specter must wrestle with anti-tax pledge in health debate …
The Senate healthcare bill presents a tricky political challenge to the only two Senate Dems to have signed anti- tax pledges. Sens.
Carl Levin: New War Tax For Rich May Be Needed To Fund Afghan War
Higher-income Americans should be taxed to pay for more troops sent to Afghanistan and NATO should provide half of the new soldiers, said Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. An “additional income tax to the …
Congress Agrees to Keep Homebuyers’ Tax Credit
The Senate and House are poised to agree on a compromise measure to extend unemployment benefits that also would expand a popular $8,000 tax credit for homebuyers.
Palin Hits Dems on 'Unsustainable Mandate', 'Cadillac Tax', and C …
ABC News’ Teddy Davis reports: Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is once again weighing in on the health reform debate, this time echoing the insurance industry’s argument that the individual mandate contained in the Senate Finance bill …
Michelle Malkin » Tax-maniacs backing off health benefits?
WSJ: “A Senate Democrat involved in negotiations on legislation to overhaul the health-care system said senators may be souring on a plan to tax some employer-provided health benefits. Sen.
