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| Donks Lied, Profits Died: Rubin's Tax Gambit |
| 2006-11-14 |
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| #6 I have long envisioned a professional credibility rating for such government wonks. It is objective, based on what they advocated, and what happened. For instance, though he is publicly damned by the left, I would see the credibility of Arthur Laffer being quite high, because he was right. He didn't just make a theory. It was tested and worked. Whereas Rubin should have a barrel bottom rating, something he could be reminded of when he shoots off his mouth like this. A warning: "Don't listen to this bozo. What he says doesn't work." |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-11-14 12:55 |
| #5 And this is what drives me crazy about the pubbies, no context. Some pubbie's going on TV somewhere and won't say you know, the president asked Mr. Rubin to be a part of the bipartisan entitlement commission to be a part of the solution, he declined. He's playing politics, nothing more. I have nothing more to say about him or his views. That should be the standard comment across the board. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-11-14 10:19 |
| #4 I blame both parties for the mess in Washington. The Democrats for cowardness and hatefulness and the Republicans for spinelessness for not standing up to them and spending too much. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-11-14 10:06 |
| #3 Unfortunately OS, the mass-media fed public tends to blame the party holding the White House, not Capitol Hill. Ignorance is bliss. God forbid people learn a little f'ing civics. |
| Posted by: AllahHateMe 2006-11-14 10:04 |
| #2 Rubin wants a tax hike now. Fine, give it to him. Then the recession that is coming anyway will be pinned squarely on the "Tax and Spend" democrats in 2008. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2006-11-14 09:22 |
| #1 If Mr. Rubin wants to help reduce the future entitlement benefits he frets so much about, he could always support reforming those programs. Yet when President Bush invited him to participate in a bipartisan entitlement commission last year, Mr. Rubin refused. Which is why we suspect that Mr. Rubin's real game here is politics. The Citigroup Inc. executive is part of Hillary Rodham Clinton's braintrust, and he and she would like nothing better than to coax Mr. Bush into raising taxes in the next two years. That would take the tax issue off the table in 2008, while splintering Republicans the way President George H.W. Bush's tax-hike deal with George Mitchell did going into 1992. yep |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-11-14 09:20 |