Barack Obama won his re-election fight because Americans who are committed to moving forward turned out in record numbers to vote, especially in battleground states.
But we can’t go forward unless Congress sits down and makes the hard decisions required to create a just budget that invests in children, and creates jobs for their struggling parents while making sure those who have benefited from huge tax cuts pull their weight.
“Going over the fiscal cliff will raise taxes on 90% of Americans,” said Roberton Williams, a senior fellow at the Tax Policy Center.
More than two-thirds of the poorest Americans, who make less than $20,000 a year, would have to shell out more to the Internal Revenue Service. The average increase would be $590.
And pretty much everyone earning more than $40,000 a year would be affected. Middle-income folks, who earn between $40,000 and $64,000 annually, would see an average increase of nearly $2,000. And the richest folks, who earn more than $108,000, would face an increase of nearly $13,000.
Even if congressional leaders reach a last-minute deal to halt a huge tax hike, a painful spending cut seems inevitable.
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Washington Times:
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Scripps also identified eight individuals who are under active criminal investigation for food-stamp fraud and other crimes but whose stores remain in business, and another 27 stores whose owners have been caught violating the spirit of federal anti …
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ABC2 News:
As of November of 2012, a mind-numbing 47.7 million Americans subsist on taxpayer-funded food stamps. One in seven Americans cannot feed himself or herself with a job or work of any kind. What constitutes the irony to this national tragedy? Answer: our …
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NewsWithViews.com:
The Post’s Annie Gowen writes today about area homeless families who have found themselves in dire straits, thanks to stretched government services that have not been able to keep up with demand.
A combination of expiring tax cuts and automatic spending cuts, known collectively as “the fiscal cliff,” is set to kick in on January 1, 2013, and negotiations are happening now. The current law that requires significant cuts to both defense and non-defense programs is wildly unpopular and may be supplanted by an alternative agreement, where the real danger to safety net programs lies.
But, despite $330 million in annual food-stamp fraud, the agency overseeing the benefit program rarely ejects retailers with criminal histories — rap sheets that, according to federal statute, should be grounds for dismissal from the Supplemental …
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StandardNet:
Every day this week The Daily Caller is inviting you to relive two of our most compelling moments from 2012. These stories might have made you angry or gleeful, or maybe they led you to poke your spouse in the ribs and say, “See, I told you so …
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