John "100 Years" McCain's claim that he will balance the budget by winning the Iraq and Afghanistan wars (permitting outlays in both countries to go to zero?) deserves some sort of gold medal for ludicrousness and audacity. I assume they were laughing as they formulated this one over in campaign central.
To create a perfect circle, perhaps he should announce that his plan to win those wars is to quintuple expenditures there, given the new flexibility created by his having balanced the budget.
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- Getting It
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- Taxes, Spending, and the U.S. Government's March Toward Bankruptcy
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- 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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