Who Wanted What? By James Kwak

Look, I'm familiar with the argument for the tax cut deal. It's not a terrible argument. In simple form, it goes, the top priorities are to stimulate the economy and to cushion the impact of unemployment, and a two-year tax cut extension was worth it to get that, especially since we can kill the Bush tax cuts in 2012. Now, no one who wasn't born yesterday buys that bit about killing the Bush tax cuts in 2012, but you could still make the argument that two years of stimulus is worth making the tax cuts effectively permanent. (I don't agree, but it's not a crazy argument.)

But that's not Austan Goolsbee's argument on YouTube.


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And the Democratic argument–trying to get support from the base–is “we got more tax cuts than they did”?