Jake Tapper throws a wrench in the tax Narrative

If you want to know why Jake Tap­per will never get invited for cof­fee like Ezra (journo-​list) Klein and com­pany by the white house oper­a­tion. It’s because of sto­ries like this:

Offi­cials from the policy-​neutral National Pay­roll Report­ing Con­sor­tium, Inc. have expressed con­cern to mem­bers of Con­gress that the two-​month pay­roll tax hol­i­day passed by the Sen­ate and sup­ported by Pres­i­dent Obama can­not be imple­mented properly.

Pete Isberg, pres­i­dent of the NPRC today wrote to the key lead­ers of the rel­e­vant com­mit­tees of the House and Sen­ate, telling them that “insuf­fi­cient lead time” to imple­ment the com­pli­cated change man­dated by the leg­is­la­tion means the two-​month pay­roll tax hol­i­day “could cre­ate sub­stan­tial prob­lems, con­fu­sion and costs affect­ing a sig­nif­i­cant per­cent­age of U.S. employ­ers and employees.”

The Lonely con­ser­v­a­tive links the story say­ing

I guess this is the sort of thing that hap­pens when we elect a bunch of know-​it-​alls who know noth­ing about how busi­ness is run in America.

By an odd coin­ci­dence I was speak­ing to a finan­cial expert this week who had the very same opin­ion both on the bill and the peo­ple is run­ning the government.

Allah­pun­dit elab­o­rates:

That’s not the only group that says two months is too short. The National Asso­ci­a­tion of Wholesale-​Distributors wrote to Con­gress today to sec­ond the con­clu­sions of the NPRC, so in case there was any lin­ger­ing doubt about how tonight’s House vote will go, this should elim­i­nate it. The only mys­tery now is how par­ti­san the roll will be. Will House Democ­rats stick with Reid by endors­ing a pol­icy that would cause chaos to pay­rolls across the coun­try or will they bail too,

They won’t bail, first of all their vot­ers won’t see this story. MSNBC has been busy bang­ing the drum on the issue for the white house so they won’t touch it and the Journo-​list crowd from above is cer­tainly not going near it.

None of this is about what actu­ally works, it’s about cre­at­ing a nar­ra­tive for re-​election.

BTW I pur­posely held off post­ing this yes­ter­day to see if MSNBC or Morn­ing Joe or some­one on MSNBC might go there. Talk­ing about believ­ing in Santa.