Welcome to our LIVE coverage of President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address. I’ll be live blogging the speech with a special focus on tax issues (they should be BIG). You can send questions and comments ahead of (and during) the speech to kelly.erb@taxgirl.com. The President’s speech begins at 9 p.m. EST although…
With just a few days before the President delivers his 2015 State of the Union address to Congress, the White House has released a “sneak peek” of what we can expect. Not surprisingly, tax and economic reforms will be on the President’s agenda for 2015 as he seeks to close what he terms “unfair loopholes…
This is our first task — caring for our children. It’s our first job. If we don’t get that right, we don’t get anything right. That’s how, as a society, we will be judged. – President Obama, Sandy Hook Interfaith Prayer Vigil President Obama delivered what many consider the most powerful speech of his political…
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 Rubio…