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Re: Recent WSJ piece on reducing the national debt

From: Laurence Kotlikoff <kotlikoff_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 20:33:21 -0400

Dear Marty and Michael (et. al.),

Two great WSJ articles!

This one may be of interest re Dodd-Frank.

http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/15/dodd-frank-failure-regulation-opinions-contributors-james-henry-laurence-kotlikoff-wall-street_3.html

best, Larry

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Martin Feldstein <msfeldst_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> I thought you might be interested in the piece that I wrote for yesterday's
> WSJ on how to cut government spending. The piece emphasizes that nondefense
> government spending is now primarily achieved through special tax rules --
> the tax expenditures -- rather than direct outlays.
>
> Marty
>

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