Doug Elmendorf

CBO Chief: High Income Tax Cuts Slow Income Growth

Brian Beutler | September 28, 2010, 3:38PM

Intentionally or not (but probably intentionally), Senate Budget Committee chairman Kent Conrad has mastered the art of deploying CBO chief Doug Elmendorf to ostensibly make the case for Conrad's policy preferences, under oath.

Today, Elmendorf made two key points before Conrad's panel: one will be used by Republicans to argue for a permanent extension of the Bush tax cuts; and the other will be used by Democrats to argue for letting Bush's high-income cuts expired. Both will, of course, bolster Conrad's argument for his own compromise position on tax cuts.

Here, in Elmendorf's words, is what will surely be the Republican talking point:

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