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Sen. Charles Schumer prods ‘Gang of 8′ to make middle class, deficit-cutting top priorities
Senator prods Gang of 8 to make middle class, deficit-cutting top priorities If you want to fix America’s tax code, one of the Senate’s leading Democrats argued forcefully on Tuesday, Congress needs to face one stark reality: “You can’t have it all.” That includes the so-called “Gang of Eight” senators,…
Sen. Schumer: Ending tax breaks for the rich ‘a big winner’ for Democrats
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday predicted that refusing to extend expiring tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans would greatly benefit Democrats. “It’s a big winner,” he said on MSNBC. “For 30 years, Republicans have won the tax debate by conflating middle-class tax cuts with tax cuts for the wealthy.…
Sen. Schumer blasts conservatives for Nazi comparison
Sen. Charles Schumer on Thursday responded to conservative critics who had compared his Ex-PATRIOT Act to laws imposed by the Nazis. “I know a thing or two about what Nazis did,” Schumer, a Jew, said on the Senate floor. “Some of my relatives were killed by them.” The Ex-PATRIOT Act…
Facebook billionaire’s tax dodge inspires punitive Act of Congress
Irate over news that billionaire Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin is renouncing his U.S. citizenship to avoid paying millions in taxes, two Democratic senators have announced a plan to prevent these kinds of tax dodges in the future, according to ABC News. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Bob Casey (D-PA) on…
Bush administration came close to a perfect end
I don’t even know what to say about this: Coupled with these comments from Motley Fool: Fools who read my blogs regularly know I have been fascinated by what may have been included within the dire warnings issued to members of Congress by Paulson and Bernanke behind closed doors on…
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