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President Trump holds a meeting on the impact of the tax reform bill at the White House in Washington on Jan. 31. Now we're firmly in the selling phase of the Republican tax plan, and President Trump's constant refrain is that the cuts are "the biggest in history." History doesn't quite support his claim.
Governor Calvo will be calling for a 50-percent increase in the gross receipts tax to cover the projected 48-million dollar revenue shortfall from the Trump tax cuts. Lester Carlson of the Governor's fiscal team says he will present the proposed increase when the Special Economic Session convenes again next week.
Congressional Republicans have gathered at a West Virginia resort in search of a winning election-year agenda. The best they have to offer in 2018 may be a recitation of the tax cuts approved in 2017 - and the threat of another government shutdown is looming.
Congressional Republicans in sweater vests and fleece gathered at a West Virginia resort Thursday in search of a winning election-year agenda, facing the notion that the best they have to offer in 2018 may be a recitation of the tax cuts approved in 2017 and with the threat looming of another government shutdown. President Donald Trump speaks at the 2018 House and Senate Republican Member Conference at The Greenbrier, in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018.
If your goal is to invest $1.5 trillion in the country's ailing roads, bridges, railways, airports, and water systems, pushing through $1.5 trillion in deficit-funded tax cuts is a funny way to do it. But not to worry, President Trump suggested in his State of the Union address Tuesday, because the money will magically appear.
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President Donald Trump heralded the strength of American families and faith communities during his State of the Union address Tuesday night, presenting shared moral values as a unifying force. "In America, we know that faith and family, not government and bureaucracy, are the center of American life.
There seems to be some confusion about what the Women's March is fighting for. As best as I remember, women's reproductive rights were guaranteed in 1973.
In this Aug. 30, 2017 file photo, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner answers questions during a news conference in Springfield, Ill. Failure to pay debts on time has cost Illinois $1 billion in late-payment penalties.
IRS) building in Washington. There's plenty that won't get done if thousands of federal employees are barred from working until dysfunctional Washington agrees on a plan to restore funding.
National parks will likely close if the government can't reach a spending plan to avoid a shutdown. If the federal government shuts down tonight as Congress finds itself deadlocked on a spending plan amid squabbles over immigration and the military, the country won't be out of business.
The White House insisted it was not a political event. But that didn't stop President Donald Trump from throwing his support Thursday behind a Pennsylvania Republican in a House race that is widely viewed as a test of whether the party can stave off Democratic gains.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a major change he is proposing in the way the state collects income taxes would negate some of the harm that the GOP tax law will do to New Yorkers with more than $10,000 in state and local taxes to deduct. Cuomo proposed as part of his 2018 state budget Tuesday to essentially do away with the state income tax on the wages earned by New Yorkers and replace it with an equivalent tax on employers.
To intertwine cliches, Gov. Jerry Brown let the cat out of the bag last week and acknowledged that he's concerned about killing the golden geese. Those geese are the few thousand Californians with the highest incomes whose taxes allow Brown and other California politicians to spend tens of billions of dollars a year and the new federal tax overhaul encourages them to take their money elsewhere.
Gary Cohn, director of the U.S. National Economic Council speaks as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin during a meeting with members of the Senate Finance Committee at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, on Nov. 9, 2017. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer.
U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer unveiled a plan he says will offer a tax cut for New Jersey residents. He was joined by Gov.-Elect Phil Murphy and U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell.
Millions of working Americans should start seeing fatter paychecks as early as next month, Republican leaders say, as a result of the recently passed tax law. But the precise timing hasn't been fixed yet.
In New Jersey and California, top Democratic officials want to let people make charitable contributions to the state instead of paying certain taxes. In Connecticut and New York, officials are exploring a switch from income taxes to new ones on payroll.