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Jon Garcia / ABC News:
Obama to Propose Capital Gains Tax Hikes to Benefit Middle Class — Senior White House officials say President Obama will use his state of the union to float several new economic ideas, including tax hikes on capital gains and wealthy inheritances, and new fees on the largest financial firms …
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Matt O'Brien / Washington Post:
President Obama finally has his Piketty moment — The state of the union is pretty good, actually, but President Obama has an idea to make it better: taxing Wall Street and the super-rich to make middle-class work even more worthwhile. It's Piketty with an American accent.
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Bloomberg:
Obama Proposes New Tax Increases on Wealthy to Help Middle Class
Obama Proposes New Tax Increases on Wealthy to Help Middle Class
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John Nichols / The Nation:
Obama's Smart Economic (and Political) Calculus: Tax the Rich
Obama's Smart Economic (and Political) Calculus: Tax the Rich
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Kevin Cirilli / The Hill:
GOP pounces on Obama's tax plan
GOP pounces on Obama's tax plan
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Wall Street Journal:
Obama to Propose Tax Increases on Investments, Inherited Property
Obama to Propose Tax Increases on Investments, Inherited Property
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Julie Hirschfeld Davis / New York Times:
Obama Will Seek to Raise Taxes on Wealthy to Finance Cuts for Middle Class
Obama Will Seek to Raise Taxes on Wealthy to Finance Cuts for Middle Class
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Jake Miller / CBS News:
Who would Americans like to see on the campaign trail in 2016? — Shares - — The list of potential candidates for the presidency in 2016 is immense. The list of declared contenders, though, is nonexistent. — If the latest CBS News poll is any indication, Americans would like to see a number …
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Bob Ingle / Politics Patrol:
Only Sarah Palin has worse numbers than Christie in new CBS presidential poll — A new CBS poll shows 29 percent of Republicans would like to see Christie run for the Republican nomination for president. But 44 percent say no. CBS points out “Only former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's numbers …
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Political Wire
Beckie Strum / New York Post:
Uproar after Miss Israel's selfie with Miss Lebanon — Miss Lebanon Saly Greige (left) is in hot water after she posed in a picture with Miss Israel Doron Matalon. — A Lebanese beauty queen pleaded self-ie defense after a Facebook pic of her posing with an Israeli pageant competitor caused outrage …
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Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
Focus on growth for the middle class — Lawrence Summers is a professor at and past president of Harvard University. He was treasury secretary from 1999 to 2001 and economic adviser to President Obama from 2009 through 2010. — The most challenging economic issue ahead of us involves …
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Oklahoma ‘Survivalist’ Released After He Shot Police Chief 4 Times — A Sentinel, Okla., man on Thursday shot the town's police chief four times and was then released from custody after questioning, the Oklahoman reported. — Sentinel Police Chief Louis Ross was shot in the chest three times …
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Susan Edelman / New York Post:
NYC may yank terrorism report to appease mosque ‘spying’ critics — Zale Thompson, a man who heeded online calls by ISIS for jihad, attacked two NYPD officers with a hatchet in October. — In top-secret talks to settle federal lawsuits against the NYPD for monitoring mosques …
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Reuters:
Israel lobbies foreign powers to cut ICC funding — (Reuters) - Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, the country's foreign minister said on Sunday.
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Kevin Sieff / Washington Post:
U.S.-built Ebola treatment centers in Liberia are nearly empty as outbreak fades — TUBMANBURG, Liberia — Near the hillside shelter where dozens of men and women died of Ebola, a row of green U.S. military tents sit atop a vast expanse of imported gravel. The generators hum …
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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court to Review Bans on Solicitations in Judge Races — WASHINGTON — Almost five years to the day after the Citizens United decision reshaped American politics, the Supreme Court on Tuesday will turn its attention to judicial elections. — Such contests already sometimes resemble …
John Podhoretz / New York Post:
With tax hike proposal, Obama's main goal is to troll the GOP — You know, you just know, that after the president goes out there and announces he wants to make community college free for all Americans — as though anything government does is “free” — or is unilaterally …