“Despite the reality of impending financial reform, banking and financial services executives are bullish about their business prospects in the current year and 2011, with many investing for long-term growth and specifically focused on traditional services, emerging technologies and M&A as a means to generate growth.”
~ Scott Marcello, deputy leader of KPMG LLP’s Financial Services practice.
“If you wanted to irritate the raise-taxes folks with tax-hiking proposals designed to nettle and sting their tender flanks, what would you do?”
~ James Lileks puts it out there. His example was taxing professors on their tenure. Ironically, this comes via TaxProf Paul Caron. If you’ve got ideas, leave them below.
“Instead of reprising their partisan, tiresome, and largely unproductive argument about what to do with the Bush tax cuts, President Obama and Congress ought to be asking a very different question: How do we build a tax system capable of generating the revenues we need to fund the government we want in the most efficient and fair way possible?”