"This involves moving two items. The first is the Child Tax Credit. From the Republican Pledge To America (pdf), the Republicans both take credit for the creation of the child tax credit and note the damage that will happen if it isn’t extended...The second is more interesting: Should the payroll tax cut be a “get” for the Republican Party?... I’m going to argue five points that the payroll tax cut should be considered a GOP 'get'."
Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
Friday, December 17, 2010
Re-examining the Who Got What Tax Deal Chart
Yesterday I posted some older articles about The Tax-Cut Deal. I'm still making it through a backlog of reading but here's an updated view of the "deal chart" by Mike Konczal who says it should look like this:

"This involves moving two items. The first is the Child Tax Credit. From the Republican Pledge To America (pdf), the Republicans both take credit for the creation of the child tax credit and note the damage that will happen if it isn’t extended...The second is more interesting: Should the payroll tax cut be a “get” for the Republican Party?... I’m going to argue five points that the payroll tax cut should be considered a GOP 'get'."
"This involves moving two items. The first is the Child Tax Credit. From the Republican Pledge To America (pdf), the Republicans both take credit for the creation of the child tax credit and note the damage that will happen if it isn’t extended...The second is more interesting: Should the payroll tax cut be a “get” for the Republican Party?... I’m going to argue five points that the payroll tax cut should be considered a GOP 'get'."
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