rssObama Scraps Plan for Business Tax Credit in Stimulus
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at 9:47 am
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Faced with rising criticism from economists and Democrats alike, President-elect Barack Obama yesterday scrapped his plan to include $150 billion in business tax credits in his emerging economic stimulus proposal.
The provision would have given businesses a $3,000 tax credit or every new employee they hired, and every employee they planned to fire but retained instead. Democrats, the Washington Post reported this morning, “dismissed the $3,000 credit … as ripe for abuse and difficult to administer. When no champion for the proposal came forward, the president-elect decided to sideline the incentive.”
“We’ve always said we’re open to other ideas. This was never set in stone,” said a senior Obama adviser of the decision.
No word yet if the $150 billion will be redirected elsewhere.
2 Comments
Comment posted January 13, 2009 @ 3:15 pm
Glad to see Obama making changes. This tax credit really made no sense. I hope he moves the $150 billion to infrastructure improvements.
This is a welcomed change from how the president's plans have been handled the last 8 years.
Comment posted January 13, 2009 @ 11:15 pm
Glad to see Obama making changes. This tax credit really made no sense. I hope he moves the $150 billion to infrastructure improvements.
This is a welcomed change from how the president's plans have been handled the last 8 years.
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