Ask any employer, and you’ll hear the same lament: We’d love to hire people, but we need an inexplicable modification of the tax code exquisitely calibrated to provide a tiny incentive. Well, the president has intuited their needs, and brought forth a bill that will get the nation moving again. At first it was rather vague, and we wondered whether we’d have to pass it in order to know what’s in it — a phrase that should be spoken only by a doctor in reference to a stool sample — but now we have some hard-core specifics. It goes something like this:
That ought to do it. Then there’s the Rick Perry approach: See that tax over there, sittin’ on the fencepost? Okay, I’m going to shoot it with my eyes closed and it’s gonna not be there afterwards. Here, hold my beer.
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