1:34pm: Mitt Romney said Wednesday he wants to cut marginal tax rates for individuals by 20%. More
Feb 21: Chris Christie has had it with Warren Buffett, the world-famous investor who lent his name to a proposed tax hike on the rich.
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Feb 20: Former comptroller general of the U.S. David Walker says there will be a third-party candidate in 2012.
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Feb 20: Peter Thiel's $2.6 million in total donations account for 76% of the super PAC's fundraising since it came online late last year.
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Feb 17: Every presidential candidate has a tax plan -- and they vary from a series of mild tweaks to a wholesale elimination of income tax and a repeal of the 16th amendment.
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Feb 16: Rick Santorum gave $81,500 to charity over the past four years. That's 2.2% of the more than $3.6 million in total income he earned since leaving the Senate.
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Feb 14: The deadline is just two weeks away, and congressional negotiators are rushing to cobble together a deal, while duking it out over how to pay for the measures.
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Feb 14: If the government moved now to dump the 500 million GM shares that it still owns, as Romney suggests, taxpayers would be guaranteed to take a loss.
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Feb 10: Actor and director Clint Eastwood says the Simpson-Bowles deficit reduction plan is worth another look.
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Feb 10: Boil down the stats and you come up with one big takeaway: A relatively small number of people are exerting tremendous influence over this election.
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Feb 9: Mitt Romney hasn't worked at Bain since 1999. But he's paid as if he still is and pays a lower tax rate on his exit package than his corporate peers. Here's why.
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Feb 7: President Barack Obama and Oval Office hopefuls Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have all released at least one year of tax returns. And they all gave big money to charity.
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Feb 6: Obama can't match the Reagan recovery, but is today's recovery strong enough to earn him a second term in the Oval Office?
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Feb 3: The unemployment rate plays an important role in campaign rhetoric, and the more it falls, the better it is for the White House. But it still remains fairly high.
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Feb 3: Nevada has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in unemployment, foreclosure filings and number of underwater homes. That's not good for the state's economy.
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Feb 2: President Obama said at the National Prayer Breakfast that his policy proposals are shaped by his religious beliefs.
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Feb 2: Individuals and corporations are using new outside expenditure groups to influence political campaigns in a big way.
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Feb 1: Mitt Romney says on CNN that he's not worried about the very poor because they have a "very ample safety net." But some question whether the government is doing enough.
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Feb 1: Wall Street is throwing its weight behind Mitt Romney for president. But President Obama is still getting some bucks from the financial sector.
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Feb 1: In order to avoid conflicts of interest and satisfy ethics watchdogs, soon-to-be presidents often sell assets or relinquish control of their investments to a trustee.
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Jan 31: Americans For A Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow reported Tuesday that it has raised $1,023,121.24, according to a document filed with the Federal Election Commission.
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Jan 31: Florida has the highest rate of long-term unemployment in the nation. Some 53% of those without jobs have been out of work for at least six months.
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Jan 30: Republicans make the president out to be the tax-hiker-in-chief. Obama portrays himself as a tax cutter for the masses but not the rich. The truth is much more mixed.
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Jan 27: The estimates, even from the candidate and his own campaign, are all over the map.
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Jan 26: Is Stephen Colbert a comedian, political candidate or professor of campaign finance law?
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Jan 26: At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Cisco CEO John Chambers also endorses Mitt Romney for president.
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Jan 26: President Obama gives a little more shape to his proposed Buffett rule, but not nearly enough to really understand how it would work.
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Jan 26: The release of Mitt Romney's tax returns offer an important policy lesson: Investment income should be taxed at the same level as labor income. A commentary by tax expert Joseph J. Thorndike.
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Jan 25: Republicans charge President Obama with increasing the size of the federal government.
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Jan 25: On some of the toughest economic challenges of the day -- housing, taxes and spending -- Romney's plan is missing key policy details.
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Jan 24: For the past six months, the White House has quietly laid the groundwork for a campaign based around the issue of fairness in the economy and workforce.
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Jan 24: Like a lot of rich people, Mitt Romney has offshore investments. The extent to which he enjoys a tax break on that money is unclear.
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Jan 24: Freddie Mac has become a major focus of the battle between Romney and Gingrich. Here's a explanation of what it did and how it got into trouble.
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Jan 24: Debbie Bosanek, the longtime secretary to the Oracle of Omaha, will take in the State of the Union as a guest of the White House.
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Jan 24: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made $42.7 million over the past two years and paid $6.2 million in taxes, according to documents released Tuesday by his campaign.
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Jan 24: Obama has been unable to fix the housing market, but experts say he couldn't do much to solve such a gigantic problem.
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Jan 24: If past speeches are any indication, the economy will be mentioned early and often in Obama's State of the Union address.
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Jan 23: Newt Gingrich's consulting firm worked for Freddie Mac in 2006 and paid $25,000 a month, according to a document released Monday.
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Jan 23: The polls say they are virtually tied. So how do Romney and Gingrich stack up on the economy?
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Jan 23: Freddie Mac has become the hot button issue between Romney and Gingrich, with both blaming mortgage finance firm for housing bubble pain. But experts say they're both wrong.
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Jan 23: What the public will - and won't - learn about Mitt Romney's income, taxes and deductions when the GOP candidate reveals his 2010 tax return on Tuesday.
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Jan 23: As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney closed a big deficit with a mix of spending cuts and revenue increases, but he never raised tax rates.
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Jan 20: Fund managers pay the capital gains rate of 15%, but some would like to see that increased to an ordinary income rate that, for most fund managers, would be around 35%.
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Jan 20: Manufacturers are adding jobs. So are hospitals and colleges. South Carolina's economic prospects may be looking up in 2012.
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Jan 19: The GOP presidential candidate's federal tax returns reveal that he and his wife paid 31% of their total income in taxes last year.
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Jan 18: Most Americans would get a tax break, but hundreds of billions could be added to the federal deficit.
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Jan 18: Hint: Probably not. Most Americans' effective rate is below the 15% rate that the GOP presidential candidate says he pays, thanks to all his investment income. Here's why.
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Jan 18: Republican presidential candidate Gingrich picks up favorite topic of rival Ron Paul and says he wants commission to examine bringing back gold standard.
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Jan 18: Commentary: Mitt Romney should take the cue from his father, who released 12 years worth of tax returns when he ran for president in 1967.
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Jan 18: Obama has been unable to fix the housing market, but experts say he couldn't do much to solve such a gigantic problem.
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Jan 17: Newt Gingrich says President Obama has put more people on food stamps than any other president in history. But that doesn't tell the whole story.
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Jan 16: Mitt Romney's private equity past has come under criticism because of its perceived effect on jobs. Attention could shift to lower taxes on private equity profits.
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Jan 12: Mitt Romney, the leading Republican presidential candidate, said questions about income inequality are really about envy.
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Jan 12: Chamber president Tom Donohue said the attacks on the Republican frontrunner are 'foolish.'
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Jan 12: Small business owners say presidential candidates aren't saying enough about their issues: health care, regulation and taxes.
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Jan 11: The White House's new chief of staff will shepherd the 2013 budget through its opening days, but then President Obama will need to replace Jack Lew.
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Jan 11: Economists predict that American employers will add 1.6 million jobs in 2012, nearly enough to get the labor market back to where it was when Obama was inaugurated.
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Jan 10: The former Massachusetts governor's Republican rivals allege that Bain Capital's specialized brand of investment is 'hard to justify' and 'inherently wrong.'
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Jan 10: Millionaires and billionaires stand to gain from several of the Republican presidential candidates' tax proposals.
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Jan 10: Even Republicans are now criticizing the former Massachusetts governor's tenure at Bain Capital.
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Jan 5: Laurence Kotlikoff, economics professor at Boston University, is running for president in 2012. His 'Purple Plan,' is meant to appeal to Democrats and Republicans.
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Jan 5: Compared to the ideas pushed by other White House hopefuls this cycle -- particularly Newt Gingrich -- Romney's plan is just not that aggressive.
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Jan 5: For all their budget cut promises, the candidates lack a set of realistic, specific proposals that stand even a small chance of becoming law.
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Jan 5: The presidential hopeful says he wants to simplify the tax code and use it to give more support to families.
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Jan 4: Oil industry launches 'Vote 4 Energy' campaign in runup to presidential election.
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Jan 3: Romney has proposed eliminating all federal funding for PBS, the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Jan 3: Like thousands of other small towns across America, Newton, Iowa, was forced to reinvent itself when a major employer left town.
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Jan 2: Compared to other early-selection states in the presidential election, Iowa's economy is in pretty good shape.
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Dec 28: Spending on political ads -- usually a hallmark of campaign strategy -- has fallen off a cliff in early states.
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Dec 27: As candidates crisscross the state with their staffers, supporters and the media in hot pursuit, the groups dump money into local economies from Des Moines to Ottumwa.
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Dec 12: Newt Gingrich's tax plan is so aggressive that it could blow a hole in the federal budget and lead to huge deficits.
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Dec 7: President Obama says it's the 'height of unfairness' that the very wealthy can pay a lower percentage of their income in federal taxes than many in the middle class.
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Dec 6: President Obama delivered a much ballyhooed speech in the same town where Teddy Roosevelt introduced the nation to 'New Nationalism.'
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Dec 2: Far more important than the unemployment rate is the pace at which employers added actual jobs.
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Dec 1: The European debt crisis could have implications for the U.S. economy, and beyond that -- the 2012 election.
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Dec 1: A few key swing states economies are still struggling to shake off the recession. Who's going to get their electoral votes?
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Nov 29: What exactly would President Newt Gingrich do to help the economy? Well, he'd change almost everything.
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Nov 25: If you've ever wanted an Obama-themed grill spatula, golf divot tool, cufflinks or Joe Biden beverage coozie, now's your chance.
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Nov 23: The super committee failed. Lawmakers failed to 'go big' on a debt reduction package. Congress failed to preserve the country's AAA debt rating. The list goes on...
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Nov 21: The former Speaker of the House labeled the Congressional Budget Office a 'reactionary socialist institution' during a speech on Social Security reform.
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Nov 15: Intrade isn't just about betting. Its users are -- taken together -- shockingly good at correctly forecasting election results.
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Nov 10: In an interview with CNN's Jessica Yellin, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner slams Republican job proposals.
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Nov 9: Econ 101 professors say there is a fundamental disconnect between what's happening in the real economy, policies that could help, and the discussion heard on the campaign trail.
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Nov 1: Rick Perry's economic plan would require a sharp reduction in services and programs provided by the federal government.
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Oct 31: In a world without Bush tax cuts, candidate's optional plan works well for many but none more so than the very wealthy.
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Oct 31: While 2.5 million new jobs sounds great, it's not going to be nearly enough -- no matter who is elected president in 2012.
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Oct 28: Making his flat tax optional solved one problem - its regressive nature. But it created layers of complexity and raised questions most taxpayers don't want to have to think about. A commentary by tax expert Howard Gleckman.
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Oct 27: The White House is engaging Republicans in a familiar debate over government regulations and their impact on the economy.
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Oct 25: Republican candidate Rick Perry proposes a 20% flat tax that would preserve some sacred-cow deductions, make investment returns tax-free and kill the estate tax.
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Oct 24: Republican candidates Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich will offer flat-tax proposals they say will be vastly better than the current system. Tax experts, however, say a flat tax is not a slam-dunk.
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Oct 19: A common sentiment on the campaign trail, cutting foreign aid is frequently cited as a step toward solving the nation's budget woes.
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Oct 18: Tax Policy Center finds candidate's reform would skew heavily in favor of the wealthiest taxpayers.
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Oct 17: Grover Norquist doesn't like Herman Cain's 9-9-9 tax reform plan -- and is concerned that the plan would open new avenues for taxation.
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Oct 17: Herman Cain's proposal to throw out payroll and estate taxes and reduce federal income and corporate tax rates won't get rid of many other taxes Americans pay.
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Oct 17: For GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, the 9-9-9 plan is just a first stop on the way to a Fair Tax.
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Oct 14: Rick Perry, a Republican presidential contender, says America can create 1.2 million jobs by drilling for more energy. But it could be years before many of the jobs materialize.
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Oct 14: In an economy with serious structural challenges, a crippled housing market and slack demand, is government regulation really holding back the labor market?
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Oct 11: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain has a radical idea to reform the tax system. But experts say his 9-9-9 plan will help the rich, and hurt the poor.
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Oct 7: Alarm bells should be ringing at Obama's 2012 campaign headquarters. After one full term, it will be difficult to blame the previous Republican regime for the lackluster economy.
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Sep 18: Nearly one in five Texas residents live in poverty. Many of the jobs recently created under Governor Rick Perry are minimum-wage.
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