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In essence, Holtz-Eakin is assuming that a primary concern of an entrepreneur making hiring and investment decisions is a 14% tax her heirs may or may not bear in decades assuming her business is wildly profitable and successful.

Wonk Room » Douglas Holtz-Eakin Returns To Spread Shoddy Research Defending Tax Breaks For Wealthy Heirs 2009

So now Cody Eakin is healthy again and scores seven goals in his last 10 games?

Red Line: Reviewing the prospects after the holiday tournaments 2009

What also confuses me is, quite frankly, his policy generation process, which seems ad hoc and counterproductive and not well thought out even as the guy in charge of it, Doug Holtz-Eakin, is universally respected.

Ambinder vs. Scherer: The Emails - Swampland - TIME.com 2008

McCain's plan, said Holtz-Eakin, is a tribute to the best of medical science in America and the power of innovation.

McCain Unveils Health Care Proposal - Real Clear Politics – TIME.com 2008

Does anyone else remember that debate where Goolsbee asked Holtz-Eakin if he was a muslim? cmholm says:

Matthew Yglesias » Coleman & Holtz-Eakin on the Need for the American Action Network 2010

Andrews posits an equivalence between Podesta and Holtz-Eakin on the grounds that both Podesta and Holtz-Eakin are “parroting party lines.”

Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit 2010

Holtz-Eakin, Antos and Capretta mockingly wonder how "the ACA magically converts $1 trillion in new spending into painless deficit reduction," knowing full well that the deficit reduction isn't painless at all: It's more than $500 billion in Medicare cuts that Republicans used to slaughter Democrats in the midterm election, and it's a tax on expensive health-care plans that almost drove unions out of the Democratic coalition on the bill.

Health-care Rashomon Ezra Klein 2011

I have been very critical of Holtz-Eakin for refusing to acknowledge (even when asked directly) that a solution to our long-term fiscal imbalance must include tax increases to be politically viable (i.e., it is politically implausible that we would try to solve the problem entirely on the spending side, much less the non-Defense spending side as many conservatives think they would like), BUT your criticism is invalid.

Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives Don’t Care About the Deficit 2010

At any rate, Holtz-Eakin has historically taken some unorthodox policy positions.

Matthew Yglesias » Coleman & Holtz-Eakin on the Need for the American Action Network 2010

People who care about the budget praised the Kolbe-Boyd effort, like Harvard economist Martin Feldstein, Wharton professor Kent Smetters, Maya MacGuineas at the new America Foundation, CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, to name just a few.

Matthew Yglesias » After Career of Backing Huge, Growing Deficits, Jim Kolbe Says It’s Time to Tell The Truth 2010