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Tax cuts are pledged why??

…Average taxpayer income was down $3,512, or 5.7 percent, in 2008 compared with 2000, President Bush’s own benchmark year for his promises of prosperity through tax cuts. … Bruce Bartlett

When S != I

…Not to sound like a broken record, but Excess Reserves put a spanner in that last one. Don’t believe me, ask economists Bruce Bartlett or Joe Gagnon. Or just look…

Debt, Deficits, and Defense

…of the Washington Post sees deficits concern as a possible unifying process among right/left thinking. I don’t see it. Bruce Bartlett comments on deficits and defense spending here and here….

Why taxes are important

…Mark Thoma’s Economist’s View posting on Bruce Bartlett’s analysis of the tea partiers’ views about taxation: The Misinformed Tea Party Movement. (In short, they think that the average American with…

The Best and the Brightest Meme — Eight Years Too Late?

…C. Romer—all have extensive government policy experience. Let’s look at the Bush people: Mankiw – columnist for Fortune, textbook author. As Bruce Bartlett noted in 2003, “Mankiw endorsed the election…