Geithner's Willful Negligence; Treasury Secretary Ignored Economic Impact of New Bank Reporting Rules
Byline: Richard W. Rahn, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
What would you think of a secretary of the Treasury who failed to do serious cost-benefit analysis about regulations that could cost millions of Americans their jobs and cause innocent people to be subject to political abuse or worse and yet have almost no benefit to the United States?
Over the past several years, Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner was warned by many private economists and members of Congress of the adverse consequences of a proposed rule that would force U.S. banks to be uncompensated tax collectors for foreign governments. On April 17, Mr. Geithner issued the rule anyway.
Rep. Bill Posey, Florida Republican, responded by saying: The administration's decision overturns a hundred-year-old policy that has …
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Article title: Geithner's Willful Negligence; Treasury Secretary Ignored Economic Impact of New Bank Reporting Rules.
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Newspaper title: The Washington Times (Washington, DC).
Publication date: May 1, 2012.
Page number: B04.
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