Topic: John McCain
The article presents the views of three political experts on the platforms of the top U.S. presidential candidates for the 2008 election. "The voting records on these tax policy issues suggest where the candidates stand on the Bush administration's economic policies. President ...
The article discusses politics in the United States in the year 2008. House Republicans Eric Cantor and Adam Putnam were pleased that a Wall Street bailout bill was passed. If Senator John McCain loses the 2008 presidential election Mike Duncan, the chairman ...
Republicans line up against current stimulus and a potential second stimulus spending planRepublicans lined up Sunday in opposition to a second economic stimulus package, a rare demonstration of unity from an out-of-power political party in search of a rallying cry against President ...
Although it was technically correct, he conceded, there were in fact many economists, including five Nobel laureates, who had publicly opposed the president's program.. Private investors, for their part, are unlikely to increase spending in the short run because their businesses can ...
Campaign promise aside, Obama open to proposal to tax health benefits for middle-class workersThe Obama White House left open the possibility Sunday that the president would break a campaign promise and raise taxes on people earning less than $250,000 to support his ...
White House elusive on health taxes; Obama hasn't said yes, aides haven't said noWhen it comes to taxing health insurance benefits, President Barack Obama hasn't said yes, and may never. Baucus has said repeatedly he is looking at all possible alternatives to ...
If John McCain were president, the current stimulus would look far different from the colossal, deficit-building spending scheme implemented by the administration of President Barack Obama.. So says the Arizona senator's campaign economic guru, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who, post-election, is president of Washington-based ...
In the waning hours of the GOP's unsuccessful effort to derail the Senate stimulus bill, the name of small business was frequently taken in vain. In fact, as readers of this space know, there's a lot in the Senate bill for small ...
Writer: Darren Ng Op-Ed Can Tax Cuts Help Improve the American Economy? In this paper, I intend to pursue a discussion which fundamentally affirms the relative benefits of Senator Barack Obama's plan to increase taxes, in view of the telling need to ...
The United States should let some big troubled banks fail rather than commit more federal funds to prop them up, two key congressional Republicans said on Sunday. Senator Richard Shelby, top Republican on the banking committee, said the United States should not ...