Sunday, December 2, 2012
Lawmakers have Dec. 31 deadline to prevent start of automatic tax hikes and budget cuts.
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
After kicking the can down the road to avoid making hard choices in the face of an election, lawmakers now have just a few weeks to face financial reality for the American people. Experts may debate whether it’s a “fiscal cliff” or a gentle slope, but everyone seems to agree that dealing with the deficit and expiration of Bush-era tax cuts is a must. (See Wall Street Journal video explainer.) Congress set their own deadline to do so of Dec. 31, 2012, conveniently after the election. But with another election at least two years away, it's now time to do something about it. Up until now, each Party has blamed the other for the footdragging, but all indications are that the American people are tired of the deadlock in Washington. They're …
Monday, July 30, 2012
Will this change your purchasing habits?
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Monday, July 30, 2012
As everyone debates the great partisan divide in the federal government, there is some bipartisan legislation moving along in Congress without too much opposition from either side of the divide. If passed, the bill being considered would result in about 5 to 10 percent sales tax levied on purchases made over the Internet. While this would level the playing field for businesses with a presence outside the virtual storefront, it would be a hardship for the U.S. consumers who, according to a recent story on CBS News, spent more than $200 billion in online sales last year. A reported 53 percent of Americans shop online, spending an average of $1,200 a piece. This is expected to rise to 58 percent by 2016 with an average expenditure of about $1…
Thursday, June 28, 2012
By a 5-4 vote, the high court ruled that the Affordable Care Act, and the individual mandate as a tax, are constitutional.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court has voted to uphold the Affordable Care Act, including the controversial provision to require individiuals to purchase health insurance. By a 5-4 ruling issued Thursday morning the court ruled that the entire health care law is constitutional. The justices also decided that the individual mandate -- the subject of legal claims by 26 states, including Georgia -- was constitutional if imposed as a tax. Congress passed the ACA in 2010 with the provision that individuals not buying insurance would pay a fine. It was the focal point of President Obama's effort to expand health coverage to Americans without it, or those who are underinsured. But the mandate also has been the bone of contention for political conservatives…
Thursday, September 1, 2011
The 11th District congressman said today's gathering was "different" and was the most serious of those held in his recent memory.
Congressman Phil Gingrey (R-Marietta) was on the defensive for nearly all of the town-hall meeting held today in Kennesaw. Near the end of the 1½-hour session, the Republican was asked if this is the best he and other Republicans can do. "I know what they're talking about," Gingrey said of many of the comments made. "They are frustrated, and I don't have any ready answers. They're telling me the best you can do isn't good enough." Below is the blog of the meeting: Rep. Phil Gingrey is holding a series of town hall meetings. He held one in Cartersville on Monday and today is at the Ben Robertson Community Center in Adams Park in Kennesaw. 1:45 The town-hall meeting has concluded. 1:35 Speaker said she is concerned with dependency on …
Sunday, August 28, 2011
The Marietta congressman will visit Cartersville and Kennesaw this week.
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Sunday, August 28, 2011
Marietta Republican Phil Gingrey, who represents the city in Congress, has scheduled two 90-minute town-hall meetings in his 11th District this week. Gingrey is hosting a town hall meeting Monday from noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Clarence Brown Conference Center in Cartersville. In his open invitation, the physician and politician invites his constituents "to share your thoughts and ideas on how to improve the 11th District and comment on what's happening in Washington." The second meeting will be in Kennesaw at the Ben Robertson Community Center from noon to 1:30 Thursday. In his last series of district meetings in April, the federal budget and the debt ceiling were the top issues during stops in Cartersville and Dallas. But issues closer to …
Chuck Snow
1:09 pm on Wednesday, August 1, 2012
The question is whose tax would I pay for an online purchase, theirs or mine? who'd insure that it was remitted to the proper county, state or country? Would it require another govt agency for the taxpayers to fund? Would it be just another source of funds for out politicians to squander? Who's gonna oversee the agency created to collect the taxes, more politicians, bureaucrats and grifters? I … more ›