Obama Officials:Middle-class taxes going up

By Philip Elliott,Associated Press

President Barack Obama’s treasury secretary said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit,and his chief economic adviser would not dismiss raising them on middle-class Americans as part of a health care overhaul.

As the White House [...]

A Nation of One-Eyed Sycophants?

By Ralph R. Reiland,American Spectator

President Obama got it right for a minute during his recent stop in Africa. "No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top,"he told the Parliament of Ghana. Then he flew home to a [...]

Obama targets rich to fund health care

By Stephen Ohlemacher,ASSOCIATED PRESS

It’s probably never a bad time to be rich. But the good times for America’s wealthy could soon be a little less so.

President Obama wants to boost income taxes for the wealthy to pay for tax cuts for everybody else. He [...]

Resistance grows to Obama’s bigger government

 

By Tabassum Zakaria,Reuters

A public furor over big bonuses paid by firms bailed out with U.S. taxpayer money is fueling resistance to President Barack Obama’s ambitious plans to extend government intervention in the U.S. private sector.

Republican opponents say his commitment of huge sums to try to revive the [...]

Obama brings back era of big government

Reuters

Obama is bringing big government back

Bill Clinton declared more than a decade ago “the era of big government is over.”With his new budget,President Barack Obama has brought it back.

Obama’s $3.55 trillion budget proposal represents a gamble that Americans are ready for the sort of change [...]