All of which reduces William Gale, a tax specialist at the Brookings Institution, to something near despair.

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William Gale and Peter Orszag, co-directors of the Tax Policy Center, calculate that by 2012, sunsetting tax breaks (contained in this and previous tax acts) will equal 2.4% of gross domestic product.

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William Gale, co-directorf of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center and University of California-Berkeley Professor Alan Auerbach argued in a paper published Thursday that much more deficit reduction was needed than enacted in agreements so far.

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