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Baker, Holltz-Eakin Debate Expiration of Bush Tax Cuts: Video

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July 16 (Bloomberg) — Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, talk with Bloomberg’s Peter Cook about the potential expiration of tax cuts enacted by President George W. Bush. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose backing of the tax ...

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July 16 (Bloomberg) — Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin, a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, talk with Bloomberg’s Peter Cook about the potential expiration of tax cuts enacted by President George W. Bush.


Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose backing of the tax cuts helped persuade Congress to pass them, said lawmakers should allow the reductions to expire as scheduled at the end of this year. (This is an excerpt of the full interview. Source: Bloomberg)


Dean Baker
Dean Baker is a macroeconomist and codirector of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, DC. He previously worked as a senior economist at the Economic Policy Institute and an assistant professor at Bucknell University. He is a regular Truthout columnist and a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.

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