A group of business leaders, economists and MPs unites in a newspaper campaign to support the proposal to link Birmingham and London with a new high speed rail line.
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Campaign backs HS2 fast rail link
The payroll tax cut extension package unveiled by House Republican leaders late last week is expected to come to the floor on Tuesday, a vote that will represent the latest test of Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) leadership. In brief remarks to reporters last week after previewing the proposal to members of the House Republican conference, Boehner said that he felt “confident about our ability to move ahead” and that rank-and-file members had “received the discussion very well.” Read full article > >
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GOP payroll tax cut package vote set for Tuesday
Former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain on Sunday disputed a Washington Post report that his ‘9-9-9’ tax reform plan would raise taxes on poor and middle-class Americans , but acknowledged that some would see a tax hike under the proposal. Read full article > >
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Herman Cain: ‘Some people will pay more’ under ‘9-9-9’ tax plan
The F.D.I.C. has approved a draft, but four other federal agencies must still vote on the proposal, which will be open for public comment until January.
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DealBook: Regulators Advance Volcker Rule
President Obama will announce a plan on Monday to tame the nation’s rocketing federal debt that will draw a sharp contrast with the Republican vision and amount more to an opening play in the fall’s debate over the economy than another attempt at finding common ground with the opposing party . The president will propose $1.5 trillion in new tax revenues as part of a plan to find more than $3 trillion in budget savings over a decade, according to senior administration officials. Combined with his call this month for almost $450 billion in new stimulus, the proposal represents a more populist approach to confronting the nation’s economic travails than the compromises he advocated earlier this summer. Read full article > >
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Obama’s new debt-reduction plan to draw contrasts with Republican vision
“Everything in this proposal, everything in this legislation, everything in the American Jobs Act is the kind of proposal that in the past, at least, has been supported by Democrats and Republicans. Everything in it will be paid for.” — President Obama, Sept. 14, 2011, Raleigh-Durham, N.C. Read full article > >
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Obama’s misleading pitch for the jobs bill
A proposal to significantly increase payroll deductions of federal workers to contribute to the federal pension fund may make public service less attractive and possibly hasten an exodus among current workers eligible for retirement, some observers and workers said Monday. The Washington Post reported Sunday that lawmakers and White House officials are considering the proposal as a way to help trim the budget. “This just piles on to the demoralization that folks in the federal workplace feel,” said Dan Adcock, legislative director for National Active and Retired Federal Employee Association . Read full article > >
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Federal pension proposal may make public sector work less attractive, observers say
A key backer Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill tells MPs debating it that he does not support the proposal of the death penalty for some homosexual acts.
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Ugandan rejects gay death clause
Labour is to force a Commons vote on reversing the government’s VAT rise on petrol – but the government calls the proposal illegal.
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MPs to vote on fuel VAT increase
Plans for a cull of badgers in west Wales are on again, eight months after the assembly government was forced to shelve the proposal.
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Plan for badger cull is revived
There’s a knot in the president’s tax cut deal. Despite pleading from the White House, House Democrats angry about Obama’s plan to extend all of the Bush tax cuts refused to let the proposal come up for a vote. “This message today is very simple: That…
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House Votes Against Tax Deal
Bowles and Simpson have opened the door to awaken our slumbering economy.
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From the debt commission proposal, a bipartisan path forward
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is asking the USDA to approve a pilot program that would prevent his city’s residents from buying sugar-sweetened soda with food stamps. Some have called the proposal paternalistic. However, at In These Times , Terry J. Allen argues that Bloomberg’s proposal makes sense. read more
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