Bush has never vetoed a single pork barrel spending bill, but he is threatening to veto a bill that would bar the use of "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" against anyone in United States government custody.
One often hears discussion of torture's permissibility as a means (e.g., to head off a nuclear disaster). But for some people, possibly, torture is actually an end.
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Unfair but balanced commentary on tax and budget policy, contemporary U.S. politics and culture, and whatever else happens to come up
My books and articles
- Bonfires of the American Dream
- Literature and Inequality
- Fixing U.S. International Taxation
- Getting It
- Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax
- Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy
- Do Deficits Matter?
- Making Sense of Social Security Reform
- Who Should Pay for Medicare?
- When Rules Change
- Corporate Tax Shelters in a Global Economy
- Federalism in Taxation: The Case for Greater Uniformity
- My articles on SSRN
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- Two points about the Libby indictment
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- A good idea catching on?
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- Why Bush picked Bernanke
- Their master's voice
- New Fed chairman
- A great mind at work
- David Brooks begs credulity again
- More excitement?
- Tales of FEMA
- Fun reading
- Don't make me laugh (or, on second thought, please...
- Latest on the Tax Reform Commission
- Heaven is reserved to the faithful
- Very, very interesting
- Still a grotesque disgrace
- Sometimes paranoids are right
- No, no, no
- Tax Reform Commission
- A sense of relief
- Future biographers take note
- U.N. Secretary General George W. Bush??
- Money laundering and the economic substance doctri...
- Sounds like a good tax policy to me
- Amazing
- An interesting empirical finding, but what we do w...
- A good working definition of "compassionate conser...
- Cronyism par excellence
- Forthcoming NYU events, part 2
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About Me
- Daniel Shaviro
- New York, New York, United States
- I am the Wayne Perry Professor of Taxation at New York University Law School. My research mainly emphasizes tax policy, government transfers, budgetary measures, social insurance, and entitlements reform. My most recent books are (1) Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009) and (2) Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy (2006). My other books include Do Deficits Matter? (1997), When Rules Change: An Economic and Political Analysis of Transition Relief and Retroactivity (2000), Making Sense of Social Security Reform (2000), Who Should Pay for Medicare? (2004), Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Towards Bankruptcy (2006), Decoding the U.S. Corporate Tax (2009), and Fixing the U.S. International Tax Rules (forthcoming). I am also the author of a novel, Getting It. I am married with two children (boys aged 24 and 21) as well as three cats. For my wife Pat's quilting blog, see Patwig’s Blog.
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