“In my mind you are largely responsible for the market collapse in 2007, 2008, 2009.”
~ John Sherman, in a public comment on the FASB’s proposed fair value rule, most of which are really, really, really not nice.
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- Caleb Newquist
- June 22, 2010
“These changes appear to be limiting the scope of whistleblowers and the type of recoveries that would be eligible for an award. The fewer people eligible for rewards, the fewer people coming forward with information that might check out as tax fraud.”
~ Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), wants more whistleblowers to get paid.
Washingtonians Mind Their Own Wallets
- Caleb Newquist
- November 4, 2010
“Antitax voters clearly won a victory on Tuesday. But it would be a stretch to say that they don’t want higher taxes on the wealthy. More likely, they just didn’t want higher taxes on the nonwealthy.”
~ Robert Frank, on Washington’s rejection of Initiative 1098.
What Happens When Congress Says, “We’ve Got Time. We’ll Get to It”
- Caleb Newquist
- October 16, 2010
“Ever since the tax cuts were enacted in 2001 and 2003, policy makers have known the law would expire at the end of 2010. That ‘drop dead’ date offered an auspicious way to galvanize a systematic effort to reform a tax system that is badly in need of repair. Instead, policy makers pretty much ignored the issue until just before the 2010 Congressional recess, when politically tinged efforts to extend some or all of the tax cuts finally began — a ‘debate’ that was too little, too narrow, and too late.”
~ William G. Gale, Miller Chair at the Brookings Institution and co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center