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[Max Sawicky]

> Back during the Bush era, Summers co-authored a paper with his wife, a
> lawyer, very cautiously suggesting a transactions tax on
> securities trading (a position he no doubt left behind in Cambridge). I
quoted it in a Nation editorial. When the factchecker called him to verify
that he'd written it, he exploded, saying it was just a speculative academic
paper he didn't want appropriated for "political" use.>

Actually this was included as an item in an article
Summers did for the New Republic, with a title along
the lines of "ten good taxes" or somesuch.  So it
wasn't exactly a secret.  That this article never
surfaced as a bludgeon against Mr. Summers during
his confirmation hearings may be testimony to his
bipartisan big-shot status.

MBS