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Limit Tax Expenditures

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The National Journal asks for views on a recent proposal from Len Burman .  I couldn’t agree more with the idea:  we need to limit tax expenditures.  
 
With regard to the politics, one would have to see whether the phrase “cut tax expenditures” polls more like the phrase “cut expenditures,” which I assume polls well, or like the phrase “raise taxes,” which of course polls horribly.  I have no idea.  But at least there is a hope of breaking through the mindless artificial “Taxes versus Spending” rhetoric that dominates Washington. read more

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