What Would Buddha Do?
By Jared Bernstein
May 27, 2008
Opinion pieces and speeches by EPI staff and associates.
[ THIS PIECE ORIGINALLY APPEARED IN THE
HUFFINGTON POST ON MAY 25, 2008. ]
What Would Buddha Do?
By Jared
Bernstein
American presidential campaigns are always fraught with all kinds
of nonsense, but this year's takes the cake. It's got to be the
longest on record. And I don't know about you, but I still haven't
recovered from that debacle of a debate in Philadelphia, where
mindless moderators switched back and forth from misinformation
(remember Gibson's ridiculous claims that increasing the capital
gains tax would hurt the middle
class (PDF)) to "gotcha" craziness.
Read the rest of this piece
here.
Jared
Bernstein is senior economist at the Economic Policy
Institute in Washington, D.C.
[ POSTED TO VIEWPOINTS ON MAY
27, 2008. ]
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