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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
New achievements in phoniness
Even by his own exalted standards, Romney is outdoing himself with all this talk about personally, as President, rebuilding the traditional auto industry, "fighting for every job" in Michigan, and so forth.
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I dont know what Romney meant by how he will help auto industry. I thought you experts would know.
He seems to be a lot like Newt Gingrich - they both want to tax only earned income, aka work. All unearned income, they want no tax on at all.
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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I dont know what Romney meant by how he will help auto industry. I thought you experts would know.
He seems to be a lot like Newt Gingrich - they both want to tax only earned income, aka work. All unearned income, they want no tax on at all.
Greed beats eternal.
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