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Senate Headed Toward Including Obamacare Mandate Repeal In Tax Bill: Are Republicans shooting themselves in the foot again?


 

The richest 1 percent now own half the world's wealth


 

By inserting Obamacare repeal into tax plan, Senate GOP may complicate passage


 

Senate GOP to add repeal of ACA insurance mandate into tax bill


 

State authority approves borrowing against Pennsylvania tobacco settlement funds


 

House votes 242-174 to continue CHIP funding


 

Tax Reform Should Grow the Economy. Not the Debt.


 

Check the Label


 

Hatch adds repeal of Obamacare mandate to tax bill: Republicans view repealing the mandate as both fulfilling a campaign pledge and a source of revenue.


 

Bernie calls for Paradise Papers investigation before considering GOP tax bill: “Before Congress considers a tax bill it must investigate the Paradise Papers. We must end the rapid movement toward international oligarchy.”


 

The U.S. Isn’t Prepared for the Next Recession: When it comes—and it will, eventually—it’ll be worse than necessary


 

New GOP Tax-Cut Plan Raises Taxes on Virtually Everyone by 2027


 

Regime Change


 

Watch CEOs admit they won’t actually invest more if tax reform passes: A telling and important moment.


 

Tax Rates And Economic Growth: Is There Really A Correlation?


 

I helped create the GOP tax myth. Trump is wrong: Tax cuts don’t equal growth.  The best growth in recent memory came after President Bill Clinton raised taxes in the ’90s.


 

The Senate Tax Cut Plan Can’t Pass the Senate


 

Trump Administration Working to Keep American Medical Care the Most Expensive in the World


 

The Republican Tax Plan Is Political Suicide


 

Tax Reform May Not Stop the GOP Crack-Up


 

Unemployment Fell to 4.1 Percent Last Month, But There’s Still No Sign of Wage Growth


 

The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist: Cape Coral, Florida, was built on total lies. One big storm could wipe it off the map. Oh, and it’s also the fastest-growing city in the United States.


 

Lawmaker Seeks Records of Lobbyist Contacts with Agriculture Official: A House Democrat wants more information on the contacts and testimony of Rebeckah Adcock, who leads the Department of Agriculture’s deregulation team.


 

Analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act


 

Nearly 1.5 million people signed up for Obamacare plans so far: officials


 

Sen. Hatch to Dems saying tax cuts are for rich: 'Bull crap'


 

State authority approves borrowing against Pennsylvania tobacco settlement funds


 

Pennsylvania's budget package is hit by $200 million lawsuit


 

House passes sweeping GOP tax bill, cutting corporate rates


 

What's that? No idea what you voted for in that Constitutional amendment? You're not the only one | Kirstin Snow


 

US Bishops: Republican Tax Plan is Unconscionable and Unacceptable


 

Trump's FCC paves way for media consolidation


 

Free speech fears after book critical of China is pulled from publication


 

Sudan journalists oppose new law curbing media freedom


 

Russian parliament votes for law that could list CNN as 'foreign agent': Parliamentary bill championed as answer to similar demands by US of Russian state-funded RT television channel


 

Uwe Reinhardt: Giant, mensch, knife twister


 

It’s The Prices, Stupid:Why The United States Is So Different From Other Countries Higher health spending but lower use of health services adds up to much higher prices in the United States than in any other OECD country.


 

A fifth of healthcare spending is wasted, says OECD report


 

House GOP’s Tax Bill Would Trigger a $25 billion Cut to Medicare


 

Health Giant Sutter Destroys Evidence In Crucial Antitrust Case Over High Prices


 

Pew Report: Philly’s poor have been stuck in the inner city, separated from suburban job growth


 

The GOP Tax Plan Just Became an Assault on Obamacare: "The GOP tax bill was really, really terrible before they added ACA mandate repeal. It is now even worse"


 

U.S. Government finally admits marijuana really does kill cancer cells


 

Senate Finance Committee approves GOP tax reform plan


 

Trump’s Tax Cuts Are the Biggest Wealth Grab in Modern History


 

For Facts Sake: GOP Tax Myths.  Republicans tout "progressive" tax plans, in which people who make more pay more. Yet, an analysis of the initial Joint-Committee on Taxation score of Senate legislation says otherwise.


 

Dems prove not even GOP believe tax cut scam will increase middle-class income at hearing


 

All you need to know about politics and the GOP Tax Cut in one chart


 

Taxpayer money is going toward defending Trump's businesses from lawsuits


 

FCC just voted to kick 70% of people off of their low income broadband plans


 

CBO and JCT Estimates Show Senate Bill Skewed to Top, Harmful to Low- and Middle-Income Americans


 

Roundup: CBPP’s Analyses of the Senate Tax Plan


 

How the Trump Tax Cuts Would Reshape (and/or Break) Our Economy


 

The Shocking Math of the Republican Tax Plan


 

Revised Senate Plan Would Raise Taxes on at Least 29% of Americans and Cause 19 States to Pay More Overall


 

Nearly half of U.S. adults could now be classified with high blood pressure, under new definitions


 

“It’s a Ponzi Scheme”: Wall Street Fears Trump’s Deranged Tax Plan Could Kick Off Economic Euthanasia.  Wall Street vets say an attack on blue states could start a chain reaction in the housing market. “Will this be the first tax cut in American history that actually results in a recession?”


 

The Trump tax plan is much worse than you thought. A new analysis confirms it.


 

FCC Announces Plans To Repeal Net Neutrality: Trump’s FCC Chairman thinks Comcast should have even more control over your internet than it already does.


 

3 maps show why NAFTA is so important to the US


 

Forbes Bottom Lines Insanity of GOP Tax Bill: They're Coming For Your Social Security & Medicare


 

Intel Chip Flaws Leave Millions of Devices Exposed


 

42 top economists were asked if the Trump tax plan would significantly grow the economy. 1 said yes.  Remember when the White House said the economic growth would put an extra $4,000 in your pocket?


 

Congress is counting on America having 'amnesia' about Reagan's tax cuts, Yale expert says: •A Yale University expert criticized the Republicans' proposed tax plan, saying Congress was counting on America having "amnesia" about President Ronald Reagan's "voodoo economics" •Critics of Reagan's tax cuts in the 1980s argue that the move created huge national debt •The proposed tax changes could bring about a budgetary crisis like one seen during Reagan's term, Stephen Roach said •Contrary to the Republicans' assurances, the tax cuts are not likely to be self-financing, he added


 

After Sudden Rout, China Stock Traders Question Beijing Put


 

Are You Ready To Consider That Capitalism Is The Real Problem?  Before you say no, take a moment to really ask yourself whether it’s the system that’s best suited to build our future society.


 

Why have we built a paradise for offshore billionaires?  We endure potholes and live in fear of collapsing highway bridges because our leaders wanted these very special people to have an even larger second yacht


 

The Paradise Papers are a wake-up call: now Congress must act on tax havens.  Jobs and earnings should come back onshore – and the likes of Vladimir Putin and other oligarchs prevented from stashing money in US shell corporations


 

The Damage to Children's Health Insurance Is Already Being Done: Congressional dithering has left an effective, popular program for low-income kids teetering on the brink, despite bipartisan support for its renewal.


 

The Big Blue Losers in the GOP Tax Plans: The House and Senate bills punish Democratic constituencies, from college students to homeowners in big-city markets.


 

Republicans Are Throwing Away Their Shot at Tax Reform: There’s a manifest need to lower corporate tax rates—but instead of building consensus, the GOP is pursuing a bill that’s likely to be rolled back even if it passes.


 

The Republican Tax Strategy: Speed, Subterfuge, and Diversion


 

Trump Names Budget Director Mulvaney Interim Head Of Consumer Agency: The move sets up a critical battle over who will keep banks in line.


 

You Don’t Cut Taxes with Two Wars and 240,000 Troops Overseas


 

Why reward bad corporate behavior with more tax breaks?


 

DISPATCHES on Tax Plan


 

Rural Despair


 

The Spectator: Shameless merchants of debt


 

Open thread for night owls. Borosage: 'GOP tax bill is an attempt to destroy government'


 

Nine Reasons to Stop the GOP's Giant Tax Gift Bucket


 

Trump’s Tax Cut Challenge


 

If You Want to Collect Social Security, Trump’s Tax Plan Is an Outrage: You probably pay about four times more of your income to Social Security than millionaires, who want to cut their taxes and your benefits.


 

What Real Tax Reform Could Look Like: We don’t actually have to cut taxes on the rich, slash services for everyone, and blow a hole in the deficit.


 

Productivity Growth Is Up, Are the Robots Finally Coming?


 

Republicans Admit Their Tax Plan Is All About Rich Donors: It’s unpopular. It’s expensive. But the donors want it.


 

Emergency Rooms as Realtors: A Micro Point of Light on the Healthcare Horizon


 

That Kennedy Tax Cut


 

Robots Create Made in the USA Jobs


 

The Serious Price of the Hyperconvenient Economy


 

What the Final Moments of Homeless People Can Teach Us


 

The Paul Ryan Guide to Pretending You Care About the Poor


 

Are You in One of the 36 Million Families Whose Taxes Will Go Up Under the House Bill?


 

Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Tax Scam


 

Trump Vows to End Winter Heating Assistance for Elderly and Disabled


 

The tax bill is a bad deal for America


 

Senate Republicans Looking To Play ‘Let’s Make A Deal’ On Tax Cuts: Will the holdouts actually hold out?


 

Elizabeth Warren Rallies Supporters Against Trump’s Consumer Watchdog Appointment: Democrats want to turn the CFPB leadership battle into a referendum on the president’s professed populist agenda.


 

Why The Republican Tax Plan Is More Failed Trickle-Down Economics


 

Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate: The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act


 

The GOP Wants To Eliminate The Estate Tax. Let’s Use It To Expand Social Security Instead


 

FCC chairman: Stop harassing my family over net neutrality

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