Here is GOP Minority Leader Boehner proposing that we scrap this whole stimulus idea, and simply offer more of Bush's tax cuts and deregulation. Of course, with the stock prices and property values falling, he fails to explain how a cut in capital gains tax will help in an era where there are no capital gains. Well, at least Boehner is consistent, if not consistently wrong.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/congressional-leaders-clash-over-economic/story.aspx?guid=%7BD360F1A1-EBCA-41F7-BBEF-648BCFDD1842%7D&dist=msr_29 /snip
Boehner, meanwhile, proposed cutting taxes on capital gains and corporations.
"If we're really serious about creating jobs, what we ought to do is, we ought to eliminate the capital gains tax for the next two years on any equities that are purchased," he said. He argued that cutting the corporate income tax would help boost employment.
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