Tag: Budgets and Deficits

The U.S. Capitol dome is reflected in the pool around the Capitol visitors center earlier this year. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

Congress: Yes to pork, no to cutting debt

Sean Lengell · August 28, 2014 9:00 am

Updated CBO projections of the US economy predict a future of slower growth and lower productivity. (iStock)

Budget crunchers now expect a permanently weaker economy

Joseph Lawler · August 28, 2014 9:00 am

California lawmakers push new Hollywood tax credit

California lawmakers push new Hollywood tax credit

Juliet Williams · August 28, 2014 12:46 am

Nevada sales tax up 4.7 percent from year ago

Nevada sales tax up 4.7 percent from year ago

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 11:55 pm

Vallas: Rauner plan would cost schools $4 billion

Vallas: Rauner plan would cost schools $4 billion

John O'connor · August 27, 2014 10:14 pm

President Obama speaks in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama’s segue from constructive tax proposals to low-grade demagoguery

Michael Barone · August 27, 2014 9:40 pm

Customers dine at a Burger King restaurant in San Francisco. (Justin Sullivan/Getty images)

Congress should crack down on itself, not on Burger King

Washington Examiner · August 27, 2014 9:03 pm

On Friday, the Obama administration asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to rehear a case concerning the health care law's subsidies to federal exchanges, after a panel on the court sided with challengers last month.ÃÂ (iStock Image)

Obamacare to wreak havoc during tax season

Rep. Diane Black · August 27, 2014 7:32 pm

The White House is eager to stoke such talk, and Earnest was quick to blame conservatives for last year's 16-day government shutdown, attributing it to their dissatisfaction with Obamacare. (AP Photo)

White House has ‘no idea’ whether government will shut down

Brian Hughes · August 27, 2014 6:53 pm

Alaska voters reject repeal of 2013 petroleum tax

Alaska voters reject repeal of 2013 petroleum tax

Dan Joling · August 27, 2014 6:52 pm

The SEC will implement a reform of credit rating agencies, including Fitch, Standard and Poor's, and Moody's, mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law that has been under discussion since 2011. (iStock Photo)

Regulators OK overhaul of credit rating agencies

Joseph Lawler · August 27, 2014 5:11 pm

Deficits will continue to shrink next year, according to the CBO, lowering the federal debt. (iStock Photo)

National debt has doubled since financial crisis: budget office

Joseph Lawler · August 27, 2014 2:09 pm