{"id":3988,"date":"2009-12-16T15:54:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T20:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3988"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:44:36","slug":"citigroup-repayment-costs-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/12\/16\/citigroup-repayment-costs-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Citigroup repayment costs taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3989\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/12\/Citi-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Citi\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>On the one hand Citigroup is repaying Uncle Sam that TARP bailout money, which is good for taxpayers.\u00a0 On the other hand, they&#8217;re getting a multi-billion dollar <a title=\"tax break\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/wire\/sns-ap-us-banks-tax-breaks,0,3594548.story\" target=\"_blank\">tax break<\/a> in the process.\u00a0 Economics Professor <a title=\"Laurence Kotlikoff\" href=\"http:\/\/people.bu.edu\/kotlikoff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laurence Kotlikoff<\/a>, a former senior economist in the White House Council of Economic Advisors, doesn&#8217;t like the tax breaks built into the repayment program.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;This is Uncle Sam handing out money under the rug. This is expected of a third-world dictatorship, not our country.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Laurence Kotlikoff, 617-353-4002, or <a href=\"mailto:kotlikoff@bu.edu\">kotlikoff@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand Citigroup is repaying Uncle Sam that TARP bailout money, which is good for taxpayers.\u00a0 On the other hand, they&#8217;re getting a multi-billion dollar tax break in the process.\u00a0 Economics Professor Laurence Kotlikoff, a former senior economist in the White House Council of Economic Advisors, doesn&#8217;t like the tax breaks built into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[216,78,113,239,1236,891],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3988"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8237,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3988\/revisions\/8237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}