By Will Portman Yesterday I attended a panel entitled “A Millionaire’s Tax and the Economy” at the Center for American Progress. One of the panelists, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), discussed his bill, the Paying a Fair Share Act, which would mandate that individuals earning above $2 million a year pay at least 30 percent federal … Continue reading
THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 ECONOMICS: OPINION: Republicans and Fiscal Responsibility (Simon Johnson) http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/01/republicans-and-fiscal-responsibility/ The United States has a great deal of public debt outstanding – and a future trajectory that is sobering (see this recent presentation by Doug Elmendorf, director of the Congressional Budget Office). Yet the four remaining contenders for the Republican nomination are competing … Continue reading
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