Tag: Taxes

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said eliminating the mandate "makes it much easier" to pay for tax reform, because it would create $400 billion in tax savings. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Conservatives push for Obamacare mandate repeal in tax bill

Susan Ferrechio · November 7, 2017 5:29 pm

Rep. Tom Reed, R-N.Y., sat next to a stack of Internal Revenue Code volumes as the House Ways and Means Committee began the markup process of the GOP's far-reaching tax overhaul Monday. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Ban congressional hearings

Pete Kasperowicz · November 7, 2017 5:01 pm

"While the corporate tax cut will lead to some increase in our nation's GDP, the rest of the provisions on individual taxpayers fails the pro-growth test," Club for Growth President David McIntosh said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Club for Growth slams key piece of GOP tax bill as ‘class warfare’

Joseph Lawler · November 7, 2017 4:17 pm

"Everyone enjoys a tax cut all across the board," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., told Fox News' Laura Ingraham Monday night. "What this 'bubble rate' does is it says the millionaires don't get the tax cut that is aimed for low and middle-class people, the people in the 12 percent bracket." (screenshot)

Paul Ryan pushes back on ‘bubble tax’: Everyone will receive a cut

Diana Stancy Correll · November 7, 2017 5:19 am

The off-election year ballots Tuesday include proposals that will affect Obamacare and drug prices, while other states have elections that could have a more indirect impact on healthcare policy. (iStock)

5 major healthcare measures on the ballot today

Kimberly Leonard · November 7, 2017 5:01 am

House leaders promised to take up the medical device and insurer taxes after they finish with tax reform. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House holds off on cutting several Obamacare taxes

Robert King · November 6, 2017 11:53 pm

Billionaire and casino owner Sheldon Adelson is not only pushing to curb Internet gambling state by state, but he's also supporting federal legislation that would prohibit most online forms of gambling nationwide. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Sheldon Adelson and his astroturf lobbyists don’t want to let you gamble online

Matthew Boyer · November 6, 2017 11:27 pm

"The inclusion of this language is yet another Republican attempt to block a woman's constitutional right to abortion, but this time in the guise of changing the tax code," Rep. Judy Chu, D-Calif., said. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Democrat: GOP trying to chip away at abortion rights through the tax bill

Joseph Lawler · November 6, 2017 9:03 pm

The poll asked some loaded, though hardly out of bounds, messaging questions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

New GOP poll: Voters want Republican tax plan

David M. Drucker · November 6, 2017 8:55 pm

By 2027, the bill would raise taxes on nearly one-third of all taxpayers, the analysis from the Tax Policy Center says. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Think tank retracts analysis saying GOP tax bill would raise taxes on 1 in 8 filers

Joseph Lawler · November 6, 2017 8:39 pm

In 2010, the gradual decline of the so-called death tax reached a full repeal for one year only. That year just so happened to be the year my grandfather lost his long and painful battle with cancer. (iStock photo)

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Cancer saved our small business from the death tax

Patrick Hedger · November 6, 2017 7:35 pm

Kill the Bill

Matt Labash · November 6, 2017 5:28 pm