It looks like $200 billion of what they put under the $600 billion heading is in fact revenue--fees and various other forms of revenue.
You know, there is another approach that you can take in negotiations, and in my experience it has been a more successful one.
tax reform is spending cuts. There is no difference if I give you a mortgage interest deduction or I cut you a check.
If revenue has to be part of this--I don't think that that's economically or fiscally necessary or optimal--but if it is politically necessa...
the President's proposal is almost entirely new taxes and virtually nothing... on the spending restraint
in the economy that we have now, with the highest corporate tax in the developed world... it's impossible to envision generating the kind of...
the President has been very clear about this--calling for higher marginal tax rates
I think it is clear that there is a headline tax increase that he wants of $1.6 trillion.
the spending reductions have systematically been overstated in recent years by the President
I am looking forward to seeing a supplemental that is well crafted and, I hope, properly offset, because we also have a fiscal crisis of eno...
I will be very interested in seeing what the net effect of these changes are because we know that the interest rate component will reflect a...