Saturday, April 14, 2012

Buffett Rule

  • (CBS News) Expanding on his reasons to support the Buffett Rule, President Obama said it is not just about fairness but economic growth, as well. (Watch in video above.) Now, this is not just about fairness.
  • (CBS News)
  • It's crunch time for the Buffett Rule, and President Obama is using his weekly address to make an 11th-hour pitch.
  • (ABC News)
  • The president passionately argues that we ought to hike taxes on the very richest Americans — which, if nothing else, is a handy campaign talking point President Obama has been making a lot of hay about the Buffett Rule.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • President Obama may be at a summit in Colombia for the weekend, but hes keeping his focus on one thing: the Buffett Rule.
  • (USA Today)
  • President Barack Obama capped off a week-long push for the "Buffett Rule" by asking voters Saturday to press Senate Republicans into supporting the proposal when it goes up for a vote next week.
  • (Politico.com)
  • ON MONDAY THE U.S. Senate will take up S. 2230, "The Paying a Fair Share Act of 2012," which would enact the so-called "Buffett Rule.
  • (Times-Leader)
  • WASHINGTON -- Pay attention, America. Democrats and Republicans in Congress each will launch heated, political debates next week on tax bills that will never pass.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama argued the countrys spiraling debt was largely the result of exploding health-care costs. That was true. He then said the cure for these exploding costs would be his health-care reform. That was not true.
  • (MySanAntonio)
  • In their zeal to pass the "Buffett Rule," President Obama and Vice President Biden leave the false impression that many, if not most, millionaires (people who earn $1 million or more a year) are paying a lower tax rate than the middle class.
  • (YAHOO!)

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