Grover Norquist’s testimony before the Republican Working Committee on Economic Recovery doesn’t travel far from the documents he passed out or his long record of supply-side policies. “We have a history of what works,” says Norquist. “We lowered marginal tax rates in the 1920s.” Also: “FDR didn’t do anything that More…
Half or more of the people listening to the Mitt Romney/Meg Whitman presentation at the Republican Working Committee on Economic Recovery hearing cleared out when they left. Several reporters join them. That’s the story of the day so far — Romney and a California gubernatorial candidate’s descent from Olympus to More…
These “ordinary Americans speak out” videos are functioning as ways for the panelists and congressmen to say more conservative things by addressing them to the flat-panel screens. One ordinary American worries about entitlements. Americans “read correctly that these programs are not sustainable,” says Romney, who wants to include, in the More…
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Indiana) cuts to the chase: Which taxes should we cut first? Why choose, asks Romney. “I’d like to see rates cut across the board, top, middle and bottom, for the American people.” But if pushed, he’d eliminate taxes on savings for people making less than $200,000. “It’s More…
Meg Whitman, a probable candidate for governor of California, frames every question as how it effects that state—its rate of unemployment, its small businesses. “We have to avoid, at all costs, tax increases,” she says. Then she rolls out her suggestions
•Make the R&D tax credit permanent.
•Small business access More…
Here at the Republican Working Committee on Economic Recovery hearing, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) pushes bipartisanship again: “President[-elect Barack] Obama recognized last week that the monopoly on ideas does not belong to one party.” He introduces former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), whose statement I am reading through.
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