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On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” CNN Economics and Political Commentator, Washington Post columnist, and “PBS NewsHour” Special Correspondent Catherine Rampell stated that while there are abuses and unfairness within the capital gains tax system, the proposal from 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris is likely to be “unworkable” at an administrative level. Rampell said, “If you’re a really rich person, you can leave your assets to your heirs and whatever gains you saw over the course of your lifetime will be wiped out, and everything gets reset when that stuff is inherited, it’s something called...

But when you're willing to suspend the nation's business and indefinitely delay programs that are desperately needed for the welfare of the country just to keep a president from having a win, that's hate. Hate is a many-headed monster, fickle and deceptive, just as apt to turn on its instigator. There are many old and unturned stones that reflect badly on both major political parties in this nation, and if these numerous investigations persist, last long enough and dig deep enough, there could well be a lot of garbage slung on both sides of the aisle.

The incoming secretary-general of the United Nations said that while globalization has been extremely successful in reducing poverty in many places, the world body needs to recognize that others have been left behind. Antonio Guterres, a former prime minister of Portugal who takes over for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at the beginning of the new year, also said the UN needs to be "more effective, more cost-effective, more able to serve the people with a very strong reform-minded approach." Guterres met with President Obama on Friday in the Oval Office "to share ideas about where the secretary-general-designate intends to take the...

(CBS News) LOS ANGELES - In about seven weeks, Americans can start buying health insurance on the new exchanges that will be part of the Affordable Care Act. Thursday, the Obama administration announced $67 million in awards to more than 100 organizations that will help people understand their options. The key to the success of what the president himself calls "Obamacare" is getting young folks to sign up. Jordan Zavaleta is what the health care industry calls a "young invincible." He's 26 and has no health insurance, largely because it's expensive to buy on his own and he rarely gets...

ObamaCare is poised to “destroy the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class.” And that’s the president’s supporters talking. The dire warning came last month in a letter from three of the nation’s most influential union bosses to Democratic leaders in Congress. “The unintended consequences of the ACA [Affordable Care Act] are severe,” the labor leaders bemoaned. “Perverse incentives are already creating nightmare scenarios.” Specifically, they noted, “the law creates an incentive for employers to keep employees’ work hours below 30 hours a week, and many of them are doing so...

Sen. Rand Paul outlined his fears about President Obama’s health care law on “The Daily Show” late Monday, arguing “dinosaur syndrome” has prevented well-intentioned authors of the law from crafting effective reforms. “I’m afraid it’s going to be unaffordable and that’s the real problem,” the Kentucky Republican told John Oliver, interim host of “The Daily Show” in Jon Stewart’s absence. “I’m afraid that everyone will pay a lot more for insurance. And I think precisely the people it was intended to help it may well hurt, because they may not be able to afford it.” Mr. Paul, a potential presidential...

Jindal and Walker: Unworkable ObamaCare Opaque rules, big delays and rising costs: The chaos is mounting. Remember when President Obama famously promised that if you like your health-care plan, you'll be able to keep your health-care plan? It was a brilliantly crafted political sound bite. Turns out, the statement is untrue. Aside from that small detail, the slightly larger problem is that the Obama administration doesn't have a health-care plan. Yes, the White House has a law with thousands of pages, but the closer we get to Oct. 1, the day government-mandated health-insurance exchanges are supposed to open, the more...

What's the deal with all the dead scientists?

The problem stems partly from a booming underworld economy. Smugglers based in the war-torn Balkans pump an industrial-sized flow of illicit firearms into the European Union As crime has dropped in the United States in recent years, it has worsened in much of Europe, despite generous welfare states designed to prevent U.S.-style inequality and social conflict