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Washington loves its panaceas. A few years ago, it was Army General David Petraeus who could fix any problem -- up to and perhaps including the presidency. Then it was the Simpson-Bowles commission, or maybe the congressional supercommittee on deficit reduction. Today’s cure-all? Tax reform.
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President Barack Obama says he wants top earners to pay the tax rates they did under President Bill Clinton. He actually wants them to pay more.
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Cutting taxes creates jobs, and raising taxes destroys them. That’s the view of policymakers, from President Barack Obama to his Republican adversaries.
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In selling an expanded payroll tax cut to lawmakers, the Obama administration faces the predicament it confronts in defending its $825 billion stimulus package: making a case that the economy would be worse without it.
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President Barack Obama laid the groundwork for reducing the corporate tax rate and simplifying the tax code in his State of the Union address . He also erected a political hurdle to these efforts as they could lead to higher rates for millions of businesses.
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Atlas won’t shrug.
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I suppose you’re wondering why I gathered all you distinguished Americans here today.
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The tax incentive for business research should survive an overhaul of the corporate tax code that would prune other tax breaks and lower the 35 percent rate, the U.S. Treasury Department’s top tax policy officials said.
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