washingtonpost.com - 2/22/2009
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ft.com - 2/23/2009
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Barack Obama will this week set the goal
of halving the budget deficit he inherited by the...
end of his first term, while pushing ahead aggressively on healthcare reform, climate change and education. His first budget, released on Thursday, will show ...
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FT.com / World - Obama aims to halve deficit by 2013
businesspundit.com - 2/26/2009
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businesspundit.com —
President Barack Obama presented his budget plan to
Congress today. CNN reports on the Obama budget: One...
high-profile proposal involves closing the loophole that has allowed some Wall Street investment managers to pay lower tax rates than their low-paid assistants. Wall Street lobbyists have ...
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Obama Budget: Higher Taxes, Healthcare, and a ...
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com - 2/23/2009
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Budget Week Begins
Capital Gains and Games —
... major proposals in the budget. The budget itself will be released on Thursday.
By Sunday, the summit, speech, and budget will likely be the main topic on all on the talk shows. Although I haven't yet been able to confirm this, my guess is that the Obama administration will probably try to have its director of the Office of Management and Budget appear on one or more of these shows just to show that, unlike the Bush White House, it is happy to talk about the budget.
The Washington Post and Politico both published articles this morning on ...
The (short-run) Obama health care plan?
Marginal Revolution —
Don't take this as definitive, but it's more than I've seen elsewhere:
Obama's budget request would create "running room for health reform,"
the official said, by reducing spending on some health programs so the
administration would have money to devote to initiatives to expand
coverage. The biggest target is bonus payments to insurance companies
that run managed-care programs under Medicare, known as Medicare
Advantage.
The Bush-era program has attracted nearly a quarter of Medicare
beneficiaries to private health insurance plans that cover a package ...
Expectations and Deficit Reduction
EconomistMom.com —
... and the front-page story in today’s Washington Post focus on the Obama Administration’s commitment to fiscal responsibility and (eventual) deficit reduction. The Post story explains: ...
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