Right after Peter Orszag left the White House, there was a moment of tension between himself and some of his former colleagues when he took to the New York Times to propose a tax cut compromise that the administration doesn’t support. The idea was to extend all the Bush tax cuts temporarily, but only as part of a grand bargain to tackle comprehensive tax reform in two years. Democrats worried that Republicans would just ignore the caveat and put Democrats in a corner by adopting the “Orszag plan” as their own.
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