…some movement in Congress, with one proposal by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren to increase the payroll tax on all income over $250,000, including capital gains. Another proposal called Social Security 2100: A…

…This is not a have to, it is a common sense solution. Tempest in a teapot. Proposal on family seating comes as officials have raised concerns about passengers potentially racking…

…budget-cutting and committed to maintaining Medicare and Medicaid in more or less their existing form. In September 1999, he condemned congressional Republican attempts to curb the Earned Income Tax Credit…

…vote so that the government can reopen, and then the Senate will appoint conferees for a budget conference committee where the House and Senate can hash out a real budget…

…34 percent don’t. As part of the budget compromise and at the urging of the GOP, the benefits were not extended. Chart ‘o the decade Hat Tip Digsby Digsby: I’ll…

…difference between the debt ceiling statute and budget-appropriations statutes, so Williams will continue to conflate the two until he digs deeper and reads earlier Krugman columns or other mainstream-media articles…

Worth reading the whole article. Robert Eisner, Budget deficits and rhetoric, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 1989 (Hat tip reader juan)…

Gordon Adams via Capital Gains and Games takes a look at the military side of the budget that is being sidestepped by most in the deficit spending whirlwind of claims…

Jon Walker at FDL begins a chat on politics and agendas. The big picture is built on thousands of pixels…so is national politics apparently if your advertizing budget is small….

…Budget Office (1975-83, when she was a critic of “reaganomics”), director under Clinton of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) (deputy 1993-94, director 1994-96) and a governor and vice…