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Just Because McCain 'Said Things In Town Halls...Doesn't Mean It's Official'

Posted on July 25, 2008

More fallout from the McCain tax policy bait and switch...Wonk Room Holtz-Eakin On $2.8 Trillion Gap: Just Because McCain 'Said Things In Town Halls...Doesn't Mean It's Official'McCain adviser Douglas Holtz-Eakin responded yesterday to a recent report by the Tax Policy Center, which found a $2.8 trillion gap between McCain's public economic proposals and what his advisers had been telling tax experts in private.Slate reports: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's chief economic adviser, says the numbers he provided to the TPC aren't secret--they're the same ones he provides to anyone who asks. H...

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budget , tax