US budget

Obama $1 Trillion Tax Proposal Slams Into Republican Wall


“Reform should protect the middle class, promote economic growth, and build on the fiscal commission’s model of reducing tax expenditures so that there is enough savings to both lower rates and lower the deficit,” Obama said in remarks at George Washington University in the capital, referring to a panel he appointed last year that outlined a similar tax plan. "

Krugman: The President Is Missing

What’s going on here? Despite the ferocious opposition he has faced since the day he took office, Mr. Obama is clearly still clinging to his vision of himself as a figure who can transcend America’s partisan differences. And his political strategists seem to believe that he can win re-election by positioning himself as being conciliatory and reasonable, by always being willing to compromise.