Comments on: The weakest states are stronger than U.S. banks http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2011/09/23/the-weakest-states-are-stronger-than-us-banks/ Bridges, budgets, bonds Fri, 17 May 2013 18:22:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: klhoughton http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2011/09/23/the-weakest-states-are-stronger-than-us-banks/comment-page-1/#comment-475 klhoughton Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:31:43 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/?p=3987#comment-475 "Maybe the President’s proposal to reduce the tax exclusion on muni bonds for those earning over $200,000 is a signal to Republicans that the administration is willing to negotiate the issue." Isn't that part of the "unless you do something, this will happen because you insisted on it" part of the (real) American Jobs Act? That's not "open to negotiation," that's "this will get them to do something." “Maybe the President’s proposal to reduce the tax exclusion on muni bonds for those earning over $200,000 is a signal to Republicans that the administration is willing to negotiate the issue.”

Isn’t that part of the “unless you do something, this will happen because you insisted on it” part of the (real) American Jobs Act? That’s not “open to negotiation,” that’s “this will get them to do something.”

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