| Typical wealthy economist on the gas tax.
"I don't have to agree with everything she says, and I think she was wrong on this one,'' Rivlin said in an interview today. ``If anything, we need higher gas taxes.''
Many states have sales tax holidays for back to school buying and they have turned into major marketing events with stores having special sales and doing everything to attract business. I'm sure some economists said it was a stupid idea to allow regular people to save a few bucks on their kids clothes. |