Washington: President Barack Obama on Wednesday revived a list of his favorite tax ideas, hoping to raise $580 billion in new revenues from the wealthy over a decade in a potential opening gambit to forge a deal with Congress to overhaul the tax code.
While certain not to move forward en masse, his 2014 budget blueprint has elements likely to spur discussion, including a proposal to tax derivatives more stringently, as lawmakers weigh a tax code revamp and face a deadline on the government's debt limit this summer.
"These are all opening bids in any potential grand bargain, so from that perspective they are important," said Chris Krueger, an analyst at Guggenheim Partners.
Congressional Republicans largely blasted the Democratic president's budget proposal, highlighting the difficulty policymakers have had forging a long-term deficit-cutting plan....
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05:07 AM, Apr 11, 2013
A bipartisan group of senators is closer to a deal on immigration reform to resolve the problem of 11 million illegal immigrants, including some 260,000 Indians, according to a media report. The "Gang of Eight", as the group of four Democratic and four Republican senators negotiating the deal is called, had moved closer to an agreement on a visa programme for future low-skilled workers, Politico, an influential news site focusing...
11:40 AM, Mar 30, 2013
US former vice presidential candidate and ex-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin launched a scathing attack on President Barack Obama at a Conservative party meet. ...
10:10 AM, Mar 17, 2013
Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, called President Barack Obama a liar and urged her party to stand by conservative values, rousing the crowd at a conservative conference on Saturday. ...
09:13 AM, Mar 17, 2013
It is the first day of forced spending cuts after US President Barack Obama signed the order on Saturday. The result of a failed alternative by Congress and the White House and the blame game by all parties means the average American will be hard hit. ...
09:35 AM, Mar 03, 2013
Despite his opposition to it, US President Barack Obama signed an executive order to begin $85 billion in spending cuts, which he said could see growth cut by over one-half of one per cent and cost about 750,000 jobs. Obama signed the order reluctantly after he and the Congressional leadership those from the Republican party failed to arrive at a consensus on budgetary cuts and how to address the issue...
12:30 PM, Mar 02, 2013
The US Senate on Tuesday confirmed Chuck Hagel as President Barack Obama's new secretary of defense, ending an unusually acrimonious confirmation fight. ...
05:05 AM, Feb 27, 2013
President Barack Obama is telling congressional Republicans that he is still willing to reduce the deficit but only with a mix of increased taxes and reduced spending, an offer he made during budget talks that collapsed at the end of last year. Republicans say they reject raising more tax revenue. ...
10:17 AM, Feb 13, 2013
The U.S. Congress approved a rare tax increase on Tuesday that will hit the nation's wealthiest households in a bipartisan budget deal that stops the world's largest economy from falling into a deep fiscal crisis and recession. ...
09:53 AM, Jan 02, 2013
A months-long battle over the US "fiscal cliff" headed to a close on Tuesday as the House of Representatives moved toward final approval of a bipartisan deal meant to prevent Washington from pushing the world's biggest economy into recession. ...
09:04 AM, Jan 02, 2013
Hours past a self-imposed deadline for action, the Senate passed legislation early New Year's Day to neutralise a fiscal cliff combination of across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts that kicked in at midnight. The pre-dawn vote was 89-8. ...
12:43 PM, Jan 01, 2013
The agreement includes a balance of spending cuts and revenue increases to pay for the delay in the automatic spending cuts. ...
12:15 PM, Jan 01, 2013
Racing against the clock, the White House reached agreement with congressional Republicans late on Monday on a deal to prevent across-the-board tax increases and spending cuts to government programs from taking effect at midnight, according to administration and Senate Democratic officials. ...
08:10 AM, Jan 01, 2013
President Barack Obama and lawmakers are launching a last-chance round of budget talks days before a New Year's deadline to reach a deal or watch the economy go off a "fiscal cliff." Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will meet congressional leaders from both parties at the White House on December 28 at 3 pm EST to try to revive negotiations to avoid tax hikes and spending cuts - together...
12:02 PM, Dec 28, 2012
President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Thursday from a vacation shortened by government gridlock while Democrats and Republicans snarled across a partisan divide and showed no sign of compromise to avoid year-end tax increases and spending cuts. ...
04:06 AM, Dec 28, 2012
New Delhi: Gun control laws in the United States have come under fire after the mass killing on Friday at a Connecticut school, putting renewed pressure on US President Barack Obama and other Democrats to address the easy availability of firearms. Just an hour after Obama tearfully said on national television that the country needs 'meaningful action to prevent more tragedies,' about 200 people rallied outside the White House on...
01:11 PM, Dec 15, 2012
The US Presidential elections may be over but the war between the Democrats and the Republicans is still on. With fears of fiscal woes looming large, President Barack Obama has urged Republicans to consent to his plan to raise $1.6 trillion from higher taxes on the wealthy. ...
09:27 AM, Dec 02, 2012
Washington: Sorry, fellas, but President Barack Obama's re-election makes it official: Women can overrule men at the ballot box. For the first time in research dating to 1952, a presidential candidate whom men chose decisively - Republican Mitt Romney - lost. More women voted for the other guy. It's surprising it didn't happen sooner because women have been voting in larger numbers than men for almost three decades, exit polls...
11:04 AM, Nov 25, 2012
Washington: Democrats in the US Senate increased their voting edge to 10 with a newly elected independent saying on Wednesday he will align with them. Senator-elect Angus King says he has decided to caucus with Democrats, ending months of speculation about which party he would vote with. The former Maine governor was elected last week to replace retiring Republican Sen Olympia Snowe, a prominent centrist. Republican and conservative groups spent...
10:42 PM, Nov 14, 2012
Washington: A great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi has been elected to a State Assembly in the United Stated during the general elections held on November 6. Shanti Gandhi, 72, contesting as a Republican Party candidate, defeated his Democratic rival Theodore "Ted" Ensley by nine percentage points for the Kansas's 52nd Assembly District. He is son of late Saraswati Gandhi, wife of Mahatma Gandhi's grandson the late Kanti Lal. Gandhi, a cardiovascular...
10:15 AM, Nov 11, 2012
