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The Ownership Society's Last Hurrah?

January 30, 2007

A second tax related proposal made by the president in the State of the Union is a bit more revealing of the president’s current economic views. In particular, it is interesting how the president framed the proposal and how the conservative press has praised it. The basic argument is that we have the most advanced health care system in the world. However it is not a truly efficient market because current tax policy lets businesses, but not individuals, deduct the cost of health expenditures.

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