Economists Criticize Clinton, McCain Gas-Tax Plans

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d70e1727-04d4-4d66-837e-94bd2869b71c/57C1C3FC-E788-4220-8DE8-E2E4EC864D1D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aza2XQB.kk0k&refer=worldwide" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aza2XQB.kk0k&refer=worldwide" style="font-size: 11px;">www.bloomberg.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aza2XQB.kk0k&refer=worldwide">More than 200 economists, including
four Nobel prize winners, signed a letter rejecting proposals by
presidential candidates <A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Hillary+Clinton&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Hillary Clinton</A> and <A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=John+McCain&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">John McCain</A> to offer
a summertime gas-tax holiday.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aza2XQB.kk0k&refer=worldwide"><P>Columbia University economist <A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Joseph+Stiglitz&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Joseph Stiglitz</A>, former
Congressional Budget Office Director <A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Alice+Rivlin&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Alice Rivlin</A> and 2007 Nobel
winner <A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Roger+Myerson&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Roger Myerson</A> are among those who signed the letter
calling proposals to temporarily lift the tax a bad idea. Another
is <A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Richard+Schmalensee&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Richard Schmalensee</A> of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, who was member of President George H.W. Bush's
Council of Economic Advisers.     </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aza2XQB.kk0k&refer=worldwide"><P>The moratorium would mostly benefit oil companies while
increasing the federal budget deficit and reducing funding for
the government highway maintenance trust fund, the economists
said.     </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aza2XQB.kk0k&refer=worldwide">``Suspending the federal tax on gasoline this summer is a
bad idea, and we oppose it,'' the letter says. Economist <A href="http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Henry%0AAaron&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1">Henry
Aaron</A> of the Brookings Institution is among those circulating the
letter.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/57C1C3FC-E788-4220-8DE8-E2E4EC864D1D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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