Honeywell CEO David Cote, when he asked what he thought the corporate tax rate should be answered, "zero." Why? "But at the the end of the day, jobs come from companies and if we wanted to create the most effective foreign direct investment pipeline you’ve...
catfood commission
Several of our commenters called it: Now it’s getting a little clearer: Obama will throw his support behind the bipartisan effort in the Senate to turn the Simpson-Bowles plan into.
Jon Chait, formerly the strongest defender of the Catfood Commission among liberal bloggers, sees new data about its inequities and jumps ship. A rare triumph for the self-correcting blogosphere! Albeit.
As promised (threatened?),I have more on Chait's defense of Simpson/Bowles here. Compromising with median legislators who hold the cards because they're essentially indifferent to social problems is justifiable when if leads to a program that, by creating a constituency of supporters, becomes difficult to repeal. ...
On a business trip to lovely Eire without my laptop cable, I was spared further reading about inevitable Democratic attempts to make peace with the Simpson/Bowles abomination. But with a.
Shorter Alan Simpson: "I can't believe these veterans. First, they risk their lives, often to fight idiotic wars cooked up by reactionary policymakers such as myself (you know, people who.