Friday, November 27, 2009

Charles Rangel

For the Democrats' Sake, Charles Rangel Must Go

He has become the face of Democratic corruption. more >>

Despite Charlie Rangel's Tax Problems, He Might Help Republicans Keep Bush's Tax Cuts

Republicans are calling for his removal as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. more >>

The Right Way to Address Charles Rangel's Scandals

There's a right way and a wrong way. more >>

Charles Rangel Looks Like a Tax Cheat

Maybe Bush is in a pardoning mood? more >>

Sorry, Charlie—Rangel Makes More Excuses for His Failure to Pay Taxes

The New York Democrat's list of excuses for his own failures grows. more >>

Charlie Rangel Owns Up (Sort of)

Why exactly does the chief tax-writer need a high-dollar lawyer to explain the tax code? more >>

Another Rangel Property Scandal?

It's hard to see how the nation's chief tax-law author could forget to report income from rental home. more >>

A Reaganomics Reversal

Rangel's tax proposals may signal what the Democrats would do in 2009. more >>

GDP Shock Could Shift GOP's Political Fortune

The economy's resilience could let Republicans grab the "prosperity party" mantle. more >>

Rangel Tax Bill Could Reverse 'Reaganomics'

AMT reform and other Democrat tax ideas would send rates soaring. more >>

Rangel Tax Hike Bill Is on Its Way

Bush will probably veto it, but the legislation is a sneak preview of the future. more >>

Can Clinton Pay for Her Trillion-Dollar Plan?

Congress also has spending plans for revenue from a partial repeal of the Bush tax cuts. more >>

Secretary's Serenade

A long-planned get-together between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel finally came off last week, with the two huddling in Rice's private little office in Foggy Bottom. We hear Rice schmoozed the New Yorker, talking up his big issues of trade, education, diversity at State, and the differences between South Korea today and when he was in the Army during the Korean War. more >>

Rangel Proposal Won't Pacify the 'Seattle Democrats'

Has Charlie Rangel, the personable chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, pulled it off? After unveiling "A New Trade Policy for America"–which would attach tougher labor and environmental standards, among other provisions, to U.S. more >>

How Democrats Plan to 'Rearrange' Your Taxes

I'm not exactly sure what changes to the tax code New York Democrat Charles Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is planning to propose to pay for a fix in the alternative minimum tax. In an interview with Bloomberg, he said Congress could "rearrange" tax rates. more >>

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