Don’t die in 2013! Estate tax set to rise to 55% next year after expiry of Bush tax cuts

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2176757/Estate-tax-set-rise-55-2013.html By Hugo Gye PUBLISHED: 16:54 EST, 20 July 2012 | UPDATED: 17:43 EST, 20 July 2012 013 could be a bad year to die, as the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts is set to cause a massive hike in the rate of estate tax. The proportion of inheritance money claimed by the federal […]

More of the Same

By  Jeremiah W. Pinkard | Blogger from The Blue Scholar Blog | Monday, May 14, 2012 Novemer 2008 Photo by Mandel Ngan / AFP/Getty Images. George Dubya Bush and Obama are more alike than either would publicly admit. When Obama first took office I had cautious optimism. I hoped that unlike so many of his […]

Like Bush, Obama asserts prerogatives when signing laws

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/06/us-obama-congress-signing-idUSTRE8051WQ20120106 By Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON | Fri Jan 6, 2012 4:36pm EST (Reuters) – It was New Year’s Eve when President Barack Obama reluctantly signed into law the legislation he had earlier threatened to veto: a mammoth U.S. defense bill with a multitude of restrictions on the administration’s handling of detainees. Administration officials had spent […]