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How Will Your State Be Impacted By Sequestration?

24 February 2013

Tweet Five days. That’s how long until the sequestration goes into effect. Sequestration, painted as one half of the worst thing ever, is a series of across the board federal cuts which are scheduled to occur if Congress doesn’t act to cut spending. And Congress hasn’t acted on spending since 2011 (when they voted not [...]

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White House: No Tax Dollars for Death Star

12 January 2013

Tweet Whew. We just dodged a $852 quadrillion bullet. The White House has posted a response (yes, it’s real) on its web site to a petition asking that the federal government “[s]ecure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.” The petition, which garnered nearly 35,000 signatures, was posted on the [...]

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White House Sets Deadline For Budget Vote

28 December 2012

Tweet They came, they saw, they concurred. Yes, I meant concurred. And here’s what they agreed on: they should do something about the budget. Sadly, I’m not kidding. At the meeting at the the White House today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) managed to hammer out an [...]

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Obama, Boehner, Reid Pass Budget Blame While Taxpayers Wonder: Who’s On First?

28 December 2012

Tweet President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) will meet today at 3:00p.m. at the White House to discuss the (lack of a) budget. Call me cynical (I prefer [...]

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Boehner Fails To Push Through Plan B Before House Walks

20 December 2012

Tweet Christmas did not come early for Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH). Boehner failed to garner enough votes in the House to push through his “Plan B” this evening. That plan would have extended existing tax cuts through next year for taxpayers except those earning $1 million or more. President Obama’s original version [...]

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Boehner, Obama Talks Heat Up But Still No Deal On Taxes, Spending

12 December 2012

Tweet With 19 days left on the calendar until the end of the year, Congress is pretending like they want to make a deal on the budget. But if you think that means we’ll see significant reform between now and then, don’t hold your breath. Yesterday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and President Barack Obama [...]

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Boehner Claims Victory In The House, Mandate To Not Raise Taxes

6 November 2012

Tweet Election, schmelection. With many news outlets showing the economy as the #1 election issue (like this report from Orlando, which circulated on Drudge today), Representatives in the House dug in their heels with House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) saying that no matter the result, raising taxes won’t happen. Pretty confident, right? Of course he [...]

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WWJD*? Pulpit Freedom Sunday Likely to Bring Slams Against Obama, Romney

6 October 2012

Tweet As a kid, church was always a big part of my life.  But I was that girl, the one who raised her hand and asked questions and often got shushed in service. I did, however, eventually have the good fortune to have a pastor who was everything that I thought a religious leader should [...]

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It’s Possible That U.S. Olympic Medalists Won’t Actually Pay Tax On Winnings, Exempt or Not

10 August 2012

Tweet I’ll confess: I’m still on an Olympic tear at my house. My family and I have watched the end of the USA/Japan women’s soccer match three times. Yes, three. I’m not proud. We just really love soccer. And the Olympics. But as we watched the medal ceremony, I was reminded of all of the [...]

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President Obama Supports Tax Exemption for Olympic Athletes

6 August 2012

Tweet Even President Obama has Olympic fever, it seems. That’s the only plausible explanation for the latest word that the President is throwing his support behind a proposal to exempt U.S. Olympians from taxes on their awards. The President is responding to a measure which, as I previously blogged, had been introduced by Sen. Marco [...]

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