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business.theatlantic.com - 10/27/2009
The Curious Case of Bruce Bartlett
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Is Bruce Bartlett the leader of a movement or a wolfpack of one?
voices.washingtonpost.com - 10/29/2009
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— voices.washingtonpost.com — Seattle: So what exactly did the House put out this morning? Is it the Robust opt-out Public... Option that Sen. Reid talked about? Ezra Klein: No. So to do a bit on defining terms here: Robust refers to a public option that can use Medicare's ... (more) Chat transcript

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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:  Try This For A Stimulus

Megan McArdle:  A Whole VAT of Stimulus

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Try This For A Stimulus
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Derek Thompson unearths a point from Bruce Bartlett's chat with Ezra Klein earlier this summer: Suppose you had a 10 percent VAT and we said we weren't going to collect it for the next 10 months. People would buy like crazy. They'd buy toilet paper, they'd buy anything they could get their hands on that they knew they'd need in the future. We're depriving ourselves of a great stimulant tool by ignoring this. ...

A Whole VAT of Stimulus
Megan McArdle — Over at Atlantic Business, our own Derek Thompson is channeling Bruce Bartlett to suggest that announcing a VAT now, to take effect in a year or so, might serve as a nifty alternative to a stimulus.  After all, if a big tax hike is coming, you'd better stock up on pasta and paperweights. ...

Taxes As Stimulus?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Bruce Bartlett has been arguing that at VAT could be stimulative: Suppose you had a 10 percent VAT and we said we weren't going to collect it for the next 10 months. People would buy like crazy. They'd buy toilet paper, they'd buy anything they could get their hands on that they knew they'd need in the future. Free Exchange isn't so sure: Would the imminent imposition of a tax on consumption produce a wave of buying now? I'm not sure. On the one hand, we have seen that the introduction of a temporary subsidy can ...

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