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...don’t ask a committee for ideas without first framing their choices with a few “planning assumptions.” And it’s fairly clear to those who’ve followed this story line in the media what planning assumptions this tax policy committee will be charged with. This talk about bipartisanship and economists obscures the fact that the Bush team knows exactly the direction it’s heading. For several weeks now there have been quiet (and not so quiet) rumblings from the Bush-Cheney politburo about that perennial conservative...
...Bush-Cheney campaign wouldn’t actually stoop so high as to take a position! That would leave them open to criticism—for instance, like the (accurate) claim that a flat tax is basically yet another ginormous tax cut for the wealthy. No, it’s far better to talk generally about cleaning up a headache-inducing system—about ending corporate loopholes—than to endorse any specific plan. This has Karl Rove’s fingerprints all over it. As long as Bush paints this plank in broad-brush strokes, he?...
...course, will anyone fall for it? After all, this is the same president who allowed oil tycoons to create his energy policy. And now we are to believe—on faith alone—that when Bush sits down to rewrite the tax code, the only interests on his mind will be the average “folks” he’s met on the trail...
...faced severe budget constraints in recent years, with ambitious projects in Allston leaving it with a heavy tax burden and a stagnant economy hurting donation numbers. In 2003’s annual letter to the Faculty, Kirby referred to a “period of greater financial constraint,” which has seen budget cuts and layoffs across the University...
...will stop the Benedict Arnold CEOs your taxes reward for shipping jobs overseas,” Kerry would promise, in between preppy-on-preppy swipes at Howard Dean, late last year. Now neutralized of its primary season pungence, that message—leveraging the tax code (doing something!) to encourage American companies to retain their relatively expensive domestic labor—remains at the heart of Kerry’s candidacy...