Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

If discussion of the debt and deficit is nothing more than a leverage point, a fulcrum to attack spending programs...

Whitehouse criticizes using debt discussions to undermine social programs.

01/27/2015

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I see that it is not easy, but I think it is important to nail down the starting place that we are at right now.

We need to continue to work on FATCA compliance.

The IRS conservatively estimates the tax gap--the difference between taxes owed and taxes collected--to be $441 billion per year.

. . . we need to continue to work on FATCA compliance. It's too bad that we couldn't put an extra `T' on it. Then it would say FATCAT, which...