Vice President-elect Joe Biden says that the incoming Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats are close to a deal on the biggest taxpayer giveaway extravaganza in history: In recent days, government sources have talked about moving a bill through Congress next month with a price tag in the range of $675 billion to $775 billion over two years.Others have speculated on a somewhat larger overall expenditure to pay for road and bridge rebuilding, investments in mass transit systems, middle-class tax cuts and expanded aid for states and the poor.Reacting to the worsening economy, which the government on Tuesday said shrank by an annual rate of 0.5 percent in the third quarter, Biden noted that the incoming administration has had to raise its job-creation goals to 3 million, from earlier projections of 2.5 million, over the next two years."We don't think it's going to require any significantly larger increase in investment to do that," Biden said.In upbeat...(Read Full Post)