{"id":6184,"date":"2012-11-16T16:08:08","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2012-11-16T16:08:08","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T21:08:08","slug":"obamas-fairness-tax-is-political-not-fiscal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/16\/obamas-fairness-tax-is-political-not-fiscal\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama\u2019s \u2018Fairness\u2019 Tax is Political, Not Fiscal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eward Morrissey of the Fiscal Times points out the way toward resolving the fiscal cliff impasse:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"background-color:#ccccff;\"><p>Both parties want to reform the corporate and personal tax systems to eliminate complexity and provide stability and predictability. Rather than aim specifically at revenue, start by realizing the bipartisan goal of tax reform, which will boost investor confidence, and then address the spending that drives the deficits. That will be the only way to have a truly balanced long-term solution and a reliable increase in revenue, one that will keep America on a firm path to solvency&#8230;..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.thefiscaltimes.com\/Columns\/2012\/11\/15\/Obamas-Fairness-Tax-Is-Political-Not-Fiscal.aspx#page2'>Obama\u2019s \u2018Fairness\u2019 Tax is Political, Not Fiscal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eward Morrissey of the Fiscal Times points out the way toward resolving the fiscal cliff impasse: Both parties want to reform the corporate and personal tax systems to eliminate complexity and provide stability and predictability. Rather than aim specifically at revenue, start by realizing the bipartisan goal of tax reform, which will boost investor confidence, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/16\/obamas-fairness-tax-is-political-not-fiscal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Obama\u2019s \u2018Fairness\u2019 Tax is Political, Not Fiscal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,34],"tags":[59,3344],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-us-canada-countries-regions","tag-fiscal-cliff","tag-tax-reform"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Obama\u2019s \u2018Fairness\u2019 Tax is Political, Not Fiscal - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama\u2019s \u2018Fairness\u2019 Tax is Political, Not Fiscal - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eward Morrissey of the Fiscal Times points out the way toward resolving the fiscal cliff impasse: Both parties want to reform the corporate and personal tax systems to eliminate complexity and provide stability and predictability. 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