Wayne… It seems since forever that saxophonist Wayne Shorter has been composing some of the coolest and most interesting music out there. He was a member of one of the great Miles Davis quintets, he co-founded Weather Report, made great forays into Brazilian music, and is still going strong. This tune, Fee Fi Fo Fum,… Read more
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Tax Repatriation: Don’t Go There!
It seems like bad ideas just keep gaining strength these days. I’m talking about the tax repatriation holiday I wrote about last week, a great way to give a fat tax break to multinational corporations while adding $80 billion to the deficit over 10 years. To remind you, this is where we let American companies… Read more
President Obama Talks Jobs
President Obama gave a press conference today and elaborated a number of jobs ideas. Since I’ve been focusing on that part of the agenda for a while, here’s what I heard, with some commentary. Things the Administration Can Do “[Review] government regulations so that we can fix any rules in place that are an unnecessary… Read more
Other Thoughts from Other Peeps
I’ve been meaning to share a bunch of interesting stuff I stumbled on today—just a few peeps thinking interesting thoughts about our current predicaments. First, my pal Ron Klain on how important it is for the President to pivot to the jobs deficit. Even if jobs ideas don’t become law, the people need to see… Read more
Getting to a Trillion
If revenues are to be in the budget package that the President and Congressional leadership are now negotiating—and be in there, they must—they will almost surely come from cutting tax expenditures. Those are the one trillion worth of tax revenues forgone each year due to tax breaks for various activities in the code. Politicians of… Read more