""The Republicans don't have to give on revenue"
They do because they ran on it and said they would..So if Mitt would've won would they have reneged?"
Mitt didn't win and they already gave on it with the Jan agreement; why should they have to give it again?
"They've already made cuts but its not enough for the repubs so yes, they need to concede some more cuts to get the revenue..that IS balanced...
Republicans are “willing to accept new revenue” to tame the soaring national debt and avert an ugly battle over the approaching “fiscal cliff,” House Speaker John A. Boehner said Wednesday in a speech that offered a potential path to compromise in year-end budget negotiations.
6 trillion over ten years (compared to the revenue levels if Congress extended all of President Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, including those benefitting only upper-income taxpayers), according to the Urban Institute-Brookings Institution Tax Policy Center. Chairman Ryan says his plan will fully offset that revenue loss by cutting tax expenditures (credits, deductions, and other preferences), but he hasn’t provided any details.
'After two and a half years of austerity, it's really a difficult time to bring in revenue ... You can't keep flogging a dead horse,' Finance Ministry official says
ATHENS — As European leaders grapple with how to preserve their monetary union, Greece is rapidly running out of money.
Government coffers could be empty as soon as July, shortly after this month’s pivotal elections.
I had an idea kicking around for a while about how to increase NJ state revenue(or revenue for any state, for that matter), attack the REAL underlying problem concerning repeat offenders,
and lessen the draconion laws imposed by legislation.
For second or third offenders of DWI it's been estimated that between the convictions of first to second and second to third,
the driver had driven intoxicated HUNDREDS of times.
Politicians from both parties say they are concerned that it threatens the independent revenue stream that funds Social Security.
They are backed by powerful advocates for seniors, including AARP, who adamantly oppose any extension.
"The payroll tax holiday was intended to be temporary and there is strong bipartisan support to let that tax provision expire," said Sen. Orrin of Utah, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee.
I work for a state dept of revenue.
There has been a lot of controversy on the news lately about the number of excisional biopsies still being done - mainly for the revenue they generate. Needle biopsies are much less expensive with less chance of postop problems. Unfortunately with needle biopsies you have the chance of needle tract seeding when the needle is withdrawn if the lump has cancerous cells they can escape.
A blizzard of new tax forms that the Internal Revenue Service will begin rolling out next year.
Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that any budget deal must contain new revenue, and he specifically mentioned eliminating subsidies to Big Oil.
HARRY REID: The American people need to understand that it’s not as if we’ve done nothing for the debt. $2.6 trillion. $2.6 trillion already we’ve made in cuts. And all those cuts have come from nondefense programs.
We– we need to k– keep our eye on the prize and continue doing something about spending.
http://www.fiercepharma.com/story/incivek-storms-hep-c-market-75m-launch/2011-07-29
Incivek storms hep C market with $75M launch
July 29, 2011 — 10:52am ET | By Tracy Staton
There's no doubt that the hepatitis C market was waiting for Incivek. In its first five weeks on the market, the Vertex Pharmaceuticals drug reaped nearly $75 million in sales. That's more than twice the $31 million analysts had been expecting. The question now is whether that pace can be sustained.
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