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"I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street." - James Jones

Friday, Jun 09

Well and Poorly Quoted

Is Byron York misquoting Ezra Klein out in Vegas?

And are these two guys quoting each other too well?

"The bipartisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation estimated in 2005 that repealing the estate tax would cost the federal government more than $71.6 billion a year in lost revenue by 2015; the Treasury Department estimates the revenue loss at $65.8 billion that year." - Bloomberg's Ryan Donmoyer, June 8

and

"According to the staff of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, repealing the estate tax would cost the government $71.6 billion a year by 2015. The Treasury Department estimated the revenue loss at $65.8 billion that year." - Jeffrey Birnbaum, Washington Post, June 9

Posted by Patrick | 10:02 AM | Sort of Serious Stuff

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