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- Over the fiscal cliff. Sort of.
We technically “went over” the fiscal cliff at midnight yesterday, Rogers writes, and yet here we are today celebrating more extended tax cuts.
- Fiscal cliff Plan C: Let Democrats find compromise. Huh?
Fiscal cliff Plan B is dead. But allowing Senate Democrats and President Obama to negotiate a deal is hardly a step forward in finding bipartisan compromise.
- With fiscal cliff, is AARP too firm on Medicare?
Protecting Medicare benefits has to include figuring out a way of actually paying for them, not just lending moral support for them, Rogers writes.
- 'Binders full of women' and Romney: the presidential debate
Gov. Mitt Romney's reference his "binders full of women" in Tuesday's debate is ripe for parody, but the comment was more bothersome than amusing, Rogers writes.
- Is Wisconsin really up for grabs?
The hypothesis that Wisconsinites are “persuadable” and “up for grabs” in the presidential election is a reasonable one, Rogers writes, but one should not take that characterization as suggesting they are easily swayed by superficial things.
- Turning the fiscal cliff into a good thing
The dreaded 'fiscal cliff' can work – if lawmakers strive to achieve the same amount of deficit reduction over a 10-year budget window as is implied by the current-law baseline except with economically smarter, better-timed spending cuts and revenue increases.
- Presidential debate: The details (or lack thereof) of Romney's tax plan
Mitt Romney presented what Rogers writes was a fair and responsible but unspecific tax plan in Wednesday's debate.
- Romney, Obama and the long, partisan road to tax reform
When it comes to tax reform, there is a lot of common ground, but still many differences, between Romney's approach and Obama's approach, Rogers writes.
- Redefining the rich
Romney's economic adviser refutes findings on his tax plan by broadening the definition of 'rich.' But it doesn't quite add up.
- Marissa Mayer and the 'mommy track': Is the work/life balance truly possible?
Is it really up to the Yahoo! CEO and expectant mother to show women how to rise to the top of the corporate world?
- CBO releases new budget outlook. What does it tell us?
The basic message of the Congressional Budget Office's new budget outlook isn't really new, but it highlights the gap between the deficit and the laws we are making to pay for it.
- Politics 101: Don't talk about offsets on the campaign trail
Expect the candidates to get looser and looser about the “fiscally responsible” pieces of their policy proposals. Expect them to spell out only the goodies, not how they would pay for the goodies.
- Federal budget, are you ready for your close-up?
We’re going to be talking a lot about deficits, debt and the federal budget in this election, which may be partisan politics, but will hopefully also get Americans thinking about what the government can do for them, and for how much.
- What would really happen with taxes under Obama vs Romney?
The Obama campaign has taken the recent analysis of Romney's proposed tax plan as an opportunity, creating an Obama 'tax calculator' where any household can plug in their own income level, marital status, and number of children, and compare what their tax burdens would be under Obama versus under Romney. But is it fair?
- Harris vs. Trump: Where they stand on the big issues
- Intel is coming. Ohio community colleges say the state’s workers will be ready.
- An unwanted kiss shook Spanish soccer – and society. A new documentary explores why.
- Election week could be just as long, and fraught, as in 2020
- CommentaryNew editor at The Christian Science Monitor