loopholes

• “WASHINGTON -- House Financial Services Committee chairman Barney Frank, under fire from some fellow Democrats and consumer groups for carving out what they call loopholes ...”

  Les Leopold: Barkin' Barney Frank: Where's the Bite?

• “Between RPGs hitting and mortars hitting and rounds hitting what we call loopholes, and after a lot of the firefights, you look outside your loophole and you'd see the jackets of the rounds still stuck on the wall, and you pull them out.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2005

• “Republicans and reform groups protested what they called loopholes that would allow major campaign players to spend a lot of money on campaigns, despite the limits.”

  News from www.pantagraph.com

• “Bush's Republicans hailed the measure and brushed off Democratic complaints that it could actually further undermine the rights of law-abiding Americans because of what they called loopholes that would expand presidential powers.”

  msnbc.com: Community

• “COLUMBUS, Ohio-State Rep. Matt Lundy is pushing to close what he calls loopholes in the payday lending system.”

  News for NBC4i.com

• “I'm trying to read political code here, but the piece of corporate tax policy most frequently described as containing "loopholes" is the convoluted section that deals with taxing multinational companies -- the giants of corporate America, such as GE, Intel, Microsoft and IBM.”

  The Washington Post: Obama's tax plan for business: Will companies start spending?

• “Lowering tax rates and eliminating loopholes is a now a liberal cause?”

  Matthew Yglesias » Bipartisan Tax Reform and the Paradox of Presidential Involvment

• “The beauty of closing tax loopholes is that they keep on paying back, year after year, while the sale tax expires in three years.”

  New Senate Revenue Proposal: Sales Tax Reduced, Beer Tax Now in Play « PubliCola

• “If there was any year legislators could have evened the economic playing field by reining in loopholes for big banks and protecting consumers, 2010 (with populist outrage against banks at a fever pitch) was the year to do it.”

  PubliCola’s 2010 Legislative Session AcCOLAdes. Best Lobbyist « PubliCola

• “Paying it back with a gradual increase in progressivity and closing loopholes is well within the realm of Keynesian theory.”

  Matthew Yglesias » Budgeting, Pence-Style

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