WA State economists - not really
Heh... The Tacoma News Tribune
ran this article last Thursday:
Economists urge Legislature to raise taxes to deal with budget
Twenty-two of them signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown and many of them will be meeting with Brown today (about an hour before Brown meets the press.)
Of course, these economists will be preaching to the choir. Brown, an economist, said before the 2009 Legislature session that tax increases have a "de-stimulating" effect on the economy. But that doesn't mean she thinks we should not raise taxes as part of the remedy for what is expected to be an $8 billion budget problem. Far from it.
Some digging was done and Eric Earling at Sound Politics
came up with this:
"Economists" Who Support Tax Increases
Remember those "economists" who signed a letter urging the state to raise taxes? It turns out the Washington Policy Center discovered:
...that nearly half of letter signers, eleven of 28, are not economists. The non-economists include:
- an associate professor of public health administration
- a sustainable systems analyst
- an assistant professor of social work
- a research associate in sustainable agriculture
- a public policy researcher
- two historians
- four professors of public affairs
Oops.
Oops indeed...
Posted by DaveH at February 24, 2009 4:50 PM
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