Tag: Congress
Year-end tax planning strategies for businesses
Businesses should consider making expenditures that qualify for the business property expensing option. For 2017, the expensing limit is $510,000 and the investment ceiling...
CHIP funding expiration risks 27K R.I. children’s health care coverage as...
PROVIDENCE — Congress missed the Sept. 30 deadline to extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, which provided low-cost health insurance to 9...
Ground is shifting on health care
Congress’ failed effort to undo Obamacare this year revealed an important political shift in the U.S.: Americans are no longer content to let people...
Congress’ legacy can be universal health insurance
I miss you, Bernie Sanders, with your pie-in-the-sky promise of universal health care. So unpragmatic.
Actually, I miss a slew of unpragmatic legislation, including the...
Making lawsuits work for consumers
Congressional Republicans and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are clashing over a question that has implications far beyond the world of finance: How far...