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Vote on Stimulus Package Set for After the Inauguration

9 January 2009

This week, it was announced that the total job losses for 2008 were more than 2.6 million, the highest since 1945. It was no surprise, then, that Congress is rushing to approve a much touted economic stimulus package. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has said that she expected a House on the matter the week after Obama’s [...]

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Ask the taxgirl: Stimulus Checks (once more, with feeling)

3 January 2009

Taxpayer asks: there is a lot of talk that we the people will be getting another stimulus check. Is that true? Taxgirl says: I know that folks want the answer to this question to be different… I know this because I receive several variations on this question per day – including a recent email from [...]

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National Retail Federation Asks Obama to Overstep His Boundaries

29 December 2008

I don’t get folks some times. All you hear anymore is how we don’t want more government… And then the National Retail Federation, which claims to be the world’s largest retail organization, goes and asks for more government. Let me back up. The NRF has asked President Elect Barack Obama to include a national sales [...]

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Obama Team Finalizing Stimulus Package: Still No Check

23 December 2008

Barack Obama may not yet be in office but his economic team is already plugging away at an economic stimulus package. According to Vice President Elect Joe Biden, the package will include investments in health care, energy, education and infrastructure. The stimulus package has been touted as providing relief for the jobless and the middle [...]

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Obama Promises Stimulus Package – But No Word on Second Stimulus Check

24 November 2008

President Elect Barack Obama has promised that he will do “whatever it takes” to stimulate the economy. While he hasn’t laid out the entire plan, Obama has put an economic team in place to begin work on a stimulus package. Calling the potential package “costly” (imagine that!), Obama refused to put a price tag on [...]

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Stimulus Package Is Not the Same as Stimulus Check

9 November 2008

If you watched President Elect Obama’s first press conference, you might have heard him say: The one thing I can say with certainty is that we are going to need to see a stimulus package passed either before or after inauguration. For some, that translated to: another check is on the way. Not so fast. [...]

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GOP Counters Democrats’ Proposed Second Stimulus Package

13 October 2008

Earlier today, the GOP indicated that they are not on board with the Democrats’ proposal for a second economic stimulus package. There’s no surprise there. Rep. John Boehner (R-OH), the top ranking Republican in the House, wrote a letter to Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calling the proposal: an irresponsible, business-as-usual approach that has earned this [...]

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