DavidLeonhardt
4/14/2010 12:29 PM ET
The NYT's voice on fiscal policy wants higher taxes on everyone but most importantly, the rich: "The answer is that tax rates almost certainly have to rise more on the affluent than on other ...
3/24/2010 4:06 PM ET
The NYT's David Leonhardt writes: "The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three ...
3/24/2010 1:40 PM ET
"The bill that President Obama signed on Tuesday is the federal government's biggest attack on economic inequality since inequality began rising more than three decades ago." You'll never guess ...
3/17/2010 11:57 AM ET
David Leonhardt, who supported Obama's pledge to cut taxes for those making under $250,000 in the name of fighting "inequality," today admits your taxes will have to go up "however much you make."
2/18/2010 11:49 AM ET
David Leonhardt, the Times conscience on economics issues, celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Obama stimulus while attacking "hard-core skeptics" and pushing for yet another stimulus." The ...
10/8/2009 1:29 PM ET
High taxes are a societal imperative, says the Times' economics conscience, David Leonhardt: "And taxes are supposed to rise as a country grows richer."
8/11/2009 1:56 PM ET
David Leonhardt uses a small decline in the unemployment rate to shout about the massive government intervention and "stimulus" package: "What if in the end they got it right?"
7/26/2009 10:37 AM ET
Is the Times getting a little sick of seeing Obama all over the place?
7/22/2009 1:36 PM ET
David Leonhardt shares Obama's plans to ration health care in the name of cost-control.
5/5/2009 2:03 PM ET
David Leonhardt talks to Barack Obama about the (mythical) "pay gap" and wonders if America is ready to raise taxes and to cut back on health care.
