We’ll shortly be hearing the objections of deficit hawks to the deficit reduction package Demos, The Century Foundation, and the Economic Policy Institute. No doubt they’ll echo the criticisms that have already been leveled at the deficit-shrinkage roadmap Rep. Jan Schakowsky put on the table earlier this month. To get a sense of what those [...]
Archive for November, 2010
The Tax Expenditure Debate
Now that the midterm elections are over – and I’ll have more to say about the results next week – Washington is getting back to its endless debate concerning what’s to be done about the deficit and the national debt. Tax expenditures have become a popular target, at least potentially. But there are tax expenditures [...]
