-National Journal Magazine, September 11, 2010 by Peter Cohn
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“They’re certainly not putting forward a very different voice on tax policy than the Republicans are, other than with respect to the top 2 percent of the income distribution,” said Alan Auerbach, an economics and law professor….”There is the issue now having to do with the recession, which makes things more complicated, although that was not a factor in Obama’s position in the campaign in 2008, because his position was formed well before we were in recession.”
-The Wall Street Journal, September 11, 2010 by Deborah Soloman
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“I think his research would lead him to be quite comfortable with the administration’s current proposals to extend the lower-income tax cuts and not the higher-income,” said Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, who has known Mr. [Austan] Goolsbee for more than a decade.
-The Wall Street Journal, September 13, 2010 by John D. McKinnon, Ben Levisohn, and Justin Lahart
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Alan Auerbach, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley who also has studied the effect of the Bush tax cuts, said the evidence suggested that repealing the changes probably would produce a “small negative effect” on financial markets.