Posted on 02/14/2009 11:19:59 PM PST by FocusNexus
When the Tax Policy Center graded 17 key tax-cut provisions in President Obama's economic-stimulus bill last week, 10 received a C or D grade and none merited an A.
The tax-policy analysis group, sponsored jointly by the liberal Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, said its scores were an attempt to evaluate whether the bill's tax credits and other tax incentives will boost the economy and deliver the biggest "bang for the buck."
Many of the tax provisions in President Obama's two-year, $787 billion stimulus plan were found wanting, either because the stimulative effects were small, came too late to have an impact on the recession, or went to people who did not need them.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Any third rate economist or accountant could have told the Dem’s that but they didn’t want to hear it!
Maybe the Dems never intended it to help the US economy, they are just using this "opportunity" to push through their liberal agenda to get ut to become the United SOCIALIST States of America. Just an additional "S": USSA
Bill who?
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