Which should have a higher priority in Barack Obama's stimulus package?
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Albert Wenger
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
we should choose to do that in the form of investments in energy, education and infrastructure.
9/21/2009 11:27:10 AM
Fred Wilson
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
I'm not that thrilled about the $250bn of tax cuts because I don't think they'll do much to stimulate economic activity
9/11/2009 12:15:48 PM
Chuck Grassley
Tax cuts should have a higher priority than public investment in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
“You can’t just spend money and stimulate the economy,” Grassley told Politico. “You have to have incentives for investment, because you have to expand the economic pie.”
1/22/2009 1:23:55 PM
Nate Silver
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
we don't want [tax cuts] but simultaneously cut the government purchases
1/22/2009 8:35:39 AM
Jim Cramer
Tax cuts should have a higher priority than public investment in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
"All of this is why the Obama administration has it in its power to figure this out. It simply has to offer a VERY BIG tax credit to go buy a house."
1/20/2009 9:28:33 PM
Daniel Gross
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
"...the favored version of fiscal stimulus—tax cuts and rebates—hasn't worked, either."
1/20/2009 9:28:18 PM
Dean Baker
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
We need spending right now...
1/20/2009 9:27:48 PM
Steve Forbes
Tax cuts should have a higher priority than public investment in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
"One of the most effective stimuli for the economy is reducing tax rates."
1/16/2009 10:16:49 AM
Larry Summers
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
Obama plan represents...investments that will work for the American public
1/16/2009 10:07:26 AM
Nicholas Gregory Mankiw
Tax cuts should have a higher priority than public investment in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
MIGHT TAX CUTS BE MORE POTENT?
1/16/2009 10:05:16 AM
Investor's Business Daily
Tax cuts should have a higher priority than public investment in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
In crafting his solutions, Obama seems to be brushing aside the Reagan, JFK and Harding-Coolidge models, and channeling FDR and the New Deal Democrats.
1/15/2009 5:48:15 PM
Josh Marshall
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
...there's a lot of empirical evidence...
1/15/2009 5:47:24 PM
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
A focus should also be placed on investing in education and technology and infrastructure development.
1/15/2009 5:46:26 PM
Martin Feldstein
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
only way to prevent a deepening recession will be a temporary program of increased government spending
1/15/2009 5:45:44 PM
Robert Reich
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
When we invest in schools, teachers and early childhood education, the payoff is extraordinarily high.
1/15/2009 5:40:31 PM
Olivier Blanchard
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
The size corresponds roughly to what we think is needed.
1/15/2009 5:38:22 PM
Glenn Hubbard
Tax cuts should have a higher priority than public investment in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
A broad corporate tax cut would spur investment and boost stock prices.
1/15/2009 5:37:47 PM
Ezra Klein
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
The benefit to government spending is that the money gets spent
1/15/2009 5:24:44 PM
J. Bradford DeLong
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
Tax cut part does not look terribly effective
1/15/2009 5:24:21 PM
The New York Times
Public investment should have a higher priority than tax cuts in Barack Obama's stimulus package.
Tax cuts are a politiclaly expedient bad idea
1/15/2009 5:24:03 PM