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House GOP proposes austere, balanced budget
WASHINGTON – Reprising austerity themes that define the party, House Republicans unveiled a budget proposal Tuesday that they say would achieve the ambitious goal of balancing in 10 years, but it has no chance of acceptance by Democrats in what is...Tags: Senior Health, Healthcare Laws, Budgets and Budgeting, Republican Party, White House
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U.S. gov't fiscal outlook improving - but only for now
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite constant budget wrangling and finger-pointing by the nation's policy-makers, the government's short-term fiscal outlook isn't all that bad. It's actually getting better — at least for now. Washington is borrowing...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Government, Medicare, George W. Bush, Washington, DC
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Paul Ryan drinks deeply from pool of Social Security lies
I'd like to offer my thanks to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) for doing so much to validate my list of the five biggest lies about "entitlement" programs published on Sunday. Ryan's proposed federal budget, released Tuesday,...
Tags: Employees, Budgets and Budgeting, Medicare, Social Security, Paul Ryan
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Why we shouldn't raise the minimum wage
In announcing his wrongheaded proposal to increase the minimum wage to $9 an hour, President Obama spoke in lofty terms: "In the wealthiest nation on Earth," he said in his State of the Union address last month, "no one who works full time should have...
Tags: Steve Israel, Personal Income, Republican Party, Taxation, George W. Bush
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Letters: Debating Obamacare
Re "Stuck in a healthcare quagmire," Opinion, March 5 Jonah Goldberg tells us that the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, is projected to add $6.2 trillion to our deficit over 75 years. For this "fact," he cites a January study by the Government...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Public Finance
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Few insurance plans cover federally mandated services
WASHINGTON - Just 2 percent of health plans available to consumers in the private insurance market offer all the coverage that will become mandatory next year under the federal health-care law, a new analysis has found. Only about one in 50 plans now...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Substance Abuse, Health Insurance, Taxation, Lab Tests
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Crop Insurance: March 15 closing deadline
OVERLAND PARK, KAN - While 2012 crop insurance indemnity payments have hit a new record high, the taxpayer-funded portion of those losses will be much lower than crop insurance critics warned last summer. That is good news for the future of the...Tags: Insurance, Meteorological Disasters
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An honor for Alice Rivlin roils Social Security faithful
Robert M. Ball is one of the most revered figures in Social Security history, a man whose devotion to safeguarding the program from ideological attacks and political cant over six decades made him the program's "undisputed spiritual leader." Alice M....
Tags: National Government, Government, Medicare, Pete Domenici, Public Finance
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Too much money spent in Iraq for too few results
WASHINGTON (AP) — Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost. In his final report to...
Tags: Petroleum Industry, Government, Susan Collins, George W. Bush, U.S. Department of State
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Warren Buffett says federal budget cuts aren't too bad for economy
WASHINGTON -- Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is not a big fan of the automatic federal budget cuts that kicked in Friday, but he said they help reduce the deficit and shouldn't hurt the economy too much. The government is still running a deficit...
Tags: Warren Buffett, Budgets and Budgeting, Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Government Debt, Washington, DC
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Tax bills for rich families approach 30-year high
WASHINGTON (AP) — The poor rich. With Washington gridlocked again over whether to raise their taxes, it turns out wealthy families already are paying some of their biggest federal tax bills in decades even as the rest of the population continues...
Tags: Personal Income, Republican Party, Taxation, U.S. Congress, Washington, DC
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Health care is about care, not politics
When you're sick, nothing-not money, politics or even religion - matters more than getting well. And, yet, when you're healthy, those items matter more in any health care policy debate than the goal of the policy being debated: healing you when you're...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, National Government, Medicaid, Personal Income, Health and Safety at School
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