Tag Archives: Joint Committee on Taxation

The Buffett Rule dies in Congress, but, like Tupac, and Jesus, it shall rise again

By Mark | April 16, 2012

I was all set to write about Tupac, and how I’d known that he was a hologram all along, but then I started reading about today’s failure by the Senate to act on the so-called Buffet Rule, which would have imposed a minimum tax of 30% to all individuals making more than one million dollars […]

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Job growth and tax cuts under Obama, and the inability to acknowledge either

By Mark | October 19, 2010

I’m curious to know if there’s anyone out there who doesn’t buy this, and, if so, why not. My sense is that some will say it’s unfair to lay the massive job losses that began in January 2007 at the feet of Bush, pointing to the fact that Congress was in the hands of the […]