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Obama Budget Carries Host of New Taxes on Small Business, Entrepreneurs

Obama Budget Carries Host of New Taxes on Small Business, Entrepreneurs

Monday, 01 Feb 2010 02:44 PM

While President Barack Obama is proposing to cut some taxes for companies that hire workers, his budget would raise a host of other taxes on businesses and wealthy individuals.
Obama’s budget would extend his signature Making Work Pay tax credit — $400 for individuals, $800 for a couple filing jointly — [...]

February 1 2010 | Posted in Latest Stuff, U.S. News & Reports | Read More »

DCCC: Obama ‘more aggressive in fighting al Qaeda’ than Bush

DCCC: Obama ‘more aggressive in fighting al Qaeda’ than Bush

By Tony Romm – 12/30/09 01:37 PM ET
Democratic strategists Wednesday asserted President Barack Obama “has been far more aggressive in fighting al Qaeda” than the previous administration .
In an e-mail this afternoon to supporters — which incidentally excoriated Republicans for politicizing the attempted bombing of Flight 253 — the Democratic Congressional [...]

December 30 2009 | Posted in Latest Stuff, U.S. News & Reports | Read More »

MY TIPS FOR OBAMA JOBS SUMMIT

MY TIPS FOR OBAMA JOBS SUMMIT

By Roy Beck, Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 10:20 AM EST – posted on NumbersUSA

Nobel-award winning economist Paul Krugman can’t figure it out.
So, I doubt that he or any of the other hot-shot business and academic experts at Pres. Obama’s jobs summit Thursday will bring up the fact that hundreds of thousands additional Americans could [...]

December 1 2009 | Posted in Opinions & Blogs | Read More »

EYE POPPER: Immigration Tradition vs Immigration Today

America has a tradition of immigration. Author Roy Beck stops by Capitol Hill to get the reaction of people after they learn how America’s great tradition compares with immigration today.

November 29 2009 | Posted in Media | Read More »

HOLDER: Justice Dept. Says Acorn Can Be Paid

HOLDER: Justice Dept. Says Acorn Can Be Paid

Justice Dept. Says Acorn Can Be Paid
By CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group.
The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David [...]

November 27 2009 | Posted in Latest Stuff, U.S. News & Reports | Read More »