Top Stories published by Keith Hennessey in July of 2012

Senator Murray’s escape hatch

Yesterday I wrote about Senator Murray’s tax increase threat and compared it to the Tea Party / conservative Republican debt limit threat of last summer. A friend pointed out that in her threat Senator Murray left herself an escape hatch.


Lame Ducks & Fiscal Cliffs (part 2): Income tax rates

Yesterday’s introductory post to this series gave a broad overview of the fiscal policy debate, listing issues in play at the end of this year, deadlines and timeframes, and three partisan configurations that are worthy of analysis…


Senator Murray’s Tea Party tactic

In her speech at the Brookings Institution yesterday Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) threatened to allow tax increases on all income taxpayers to take effect January 1 if Republicans refuse to allow tax rates to increase on “the rich” and on successful small business owners.

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