Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Two Lamonts in the WSJ    [Stephen Spruiell]

Here’s post-primary Ned Lamont, appealing to conservatives and moderates in today’s Wall Street Journal:

… entrepreneurs invest in human resources.... That's why I believe in an employer-based health-care system that covers everyone, and providing tax benefits to small businesses so they can provide insurance without risking bankruptcy.

And here’s pre-primary Ned Lamont, criticizing Joe Lieberman in an interview with the WSJ’s James Taranto last May:

When it comes to universal health care for everybody in this country as a basic right, that's a principle of the Democratic Party that Sen. Lieberman has never quite embraced. He's come up with tax incentives for businesses to see if they might be a little more inclined to insure their people. So he generally has not embraced a lot of the Democratic goals and certainly the Democratic methods to achieving where we want to go.

Can any Corner readers help me discern the difference between “tax benefits” and “tax incentives”?

08/16 07:21 AMShare