It’s ‘Deranged’ to Not Raise Taxes, Washington Post’s Marcus Declares on ABC’s Roundtable
Despairing that the current income tax rates will be extended for all income levels, on Sunday’s This Week , Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus declared: “I think that the conversation right now is deranged” and “crazy.” In measuring the long-term “cost” of keeping the Bush rates for those below $250,000 versus for all, she argued: I think that the conversation right now is deranged. We have in one room the deficit commission folks saying look at this huge hole, look at the tax increases and serious spending cuts that we need to do to fill it. And then outside the room, we're having a debate about whether we should add $4 trillion to the deficit long-term or a mere 3.3. This is crazy. Marcus issued her characterizations after New York Times columnist Paul Krugman had made his case for raising taxes: read more
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It’s ‘Deranged’ to Not Raise Taxes, Washington Post’s Marcus Declares on ABC’s Roundtable
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