All Posts Tagged With: "Bush tax cuts"
Presidential Hubris
If we were going to spend $700 billion, it seems it would be wiser having that $700 billion going to folks who would spend that money right away. In October Barack Obama said this in defense of his opposition to extending the 2001 and 2003 tax-rate reductions for people making more than $200,000 a year. [...]
22Dec2010 | Sheldon Richman | 4 comments | ContinuedMemo to Alan Greenspan: Keep Quiet
I’m getting tired of Alan Greenspan. First, the former Federal Reserve chairman blamed an allegedly unregulated free market for the housing and financial debacle. Now he favors repealing the Bush-era tax cuts. This has a certain sad irony. Recall that Greenspan once was an associate of Ayn Rand, the philosophical novelist who provided a moral [...]
22Oct2010 | John Stossel | 10 comments | ContinuedThe Grasping Macroeconomic Managers
There remains the unalterable fact that if the tax cuts expire, politicians will control the money.
17Sep2010 | Sheldon Richman | 9 comments | ContinuedImpostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy
By Bruce Bartlett Reviewed by William B. Conerly
1May2007 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued-
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