Above the Fold |
September 13, 2011 |
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Jobs plan complicates supercommittee task |
By Andrew Taylor |
Its task complicated by the cost and politics of President Barack Obama's $447 billion jobs plan, a special House-Senate deficit-cutting panel worked Tuesday to find a bipartisan consensus on tackling the government's fiscal woes...Read more |
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Today's News |
Obama tax proposal worries Social Security allies
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By Alan Fram |
Some Social Security advocates fear that President Barack Obama's desire to cut taxes supporting the program will undermine its vaunted stature as a self-financing pension system that provides checks to retirees based on contributions they made while working...Read more |
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The Pulse |
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Overheard on BenefitsPro |
This is not about actuarial issues: the raw politics of this is that BHO wants to push tax benefits to his voting base and get the money from his political opponents. That is just old-fashioned politics.
-- socalactuary, Obama proposes tax hikes to pay for jobs bill |
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