…want? — is to risk plunging into the depths of that despair. This week the president hosted a dinner for Republicans leaders where he worked to sell his budget proposal,…

…Santorum is mentioning on the campaign trail might benefit some in the middle class–like the idea of tripling the exemption for children, though the proposal apparently isn’t linked to income…

…started being shared with the Congressional Budget Office, also by statute and tradition a professional and non-partisan group of technocrats. What is more CBO formally agrees to accept OACT demographic…

…policy proposal in 2005 and lost the policy argument. These presidents–none of them–failed to educate the public about what their policy proposals were, and, when relevant, what the opposition’s policy…

…18 billion euro gross domestic product. One proposal under consideration would be to hold all deposits over 100,000 euros in escrow — for up to 30 years! Another proposal, says…

…falling in real terms. This is a recipe for disaster. So what do we really need to do now? Several different proposals are currently in the mix, all of which…

…reform proposal with significant support in Raleigh. http://www.news-record.com/home/589530-63/nc-tax-reform-plan-is Brownback: Keep full sales tax, cut income taxes further http://www.kansascity.com/2013/01/15/4012878/brownback-keep-full-sales-tax.html These proposals all lower revenues collected. This will give these red states…

…wasn’t the Republican House delegation’s proposal. Not this time around, anyway. Their proposal was simply to use natural disasters as a ploy to starve the beast in even more Republican-preferred…

…News that the proposal was a “poisoned pill” in the current negotiations. However, it should be noted that President Obama has suggested a similar proposal within the context of negotiations…

…to look very closely at any proposals coming from the usual suspects, even — or rather especially — if the proposal is being represented as a bipartisan, common-sense solution. In…