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The New Black Gold–will tax boondoggles never cease?

…Farm Bill for the years 2010-2013). See Committee on Finance, Finance Committee Leaders Detail Elements of Farm Bill Tax Package, page 3, Apr. 14, 2008. Black Liquor is certainly cellulosic,…

Watch out! We have been tweetered on Health Care

…employers that self-insure! • Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed! • Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an…

Kevin Drum Huh ?

…passes a bill with a public option. The conference committee reports out a compromise with a public option. 218 Representatives plus 50 senators plus Joe Biden approve the conference committee

Health insurance plans-Goldman Sachs and Congress

Committee, which is working on bipartisan version of the health care legislation in Congress, had long expressed interest in taxing some employer-provided benefits — a move many budget experts say…

Are They Allowed To Write That

…a bipartisan health care measure continued in the Finance Committee, top Republicans seemed eager to avoid early compromises that would let Democrats head to their home states for the August…

Was it a Gang of Seven?

…here (table lifted from Nathan Newman at TPM Cafe). And most of us are equally aware that the party split of what is being called the Baucus Committee is 3…

I didn’t think of that

…the negotiations. Instead, there is a “bondholders’ committee”. Who is on the committee? The “experts” and the large bondholders: primarily banks and bond funds. These banks and bond funds presume…

New savings vehicles in the works?

Investment News suggested the following is being considered: House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller, D-Calif., and Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s…