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Taxes and inequality (and Lady Gaga’s meat bikini) |Michael Tomasky

Sep 7th, 2010 | By | Category: News

Peter Orszag, Obama’s former budget director, wrote a buzzy column (as in, it’s getting some) in the Times today in which he came out for extending the Bush tax cuts for all taxpayers, upper-bracket ones included, through 2013, and then letting them all expire (middle- and lower-brackets included). Robert Gibbs came out today and said no, the president doesn’t agree, and he still supports letting the cut expire (which it will do next year, under the rules of how it was passed) for households earning more than $250,000 a year