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"Score one for the barbarians" -- so reads the New York Post today. The reference, of course, is to Barbarians at the Gate, the sordid tale of the leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco in the 1980s. Today, the private equity barbarians have won another battle: there will be no new tax on carried interest, at least not this year.

Charles Rangel, the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman has dropped a proposed change in the tax laws that would raise taxes on hedge fund managers. The change was relatively simple, raising the tax rate on fund profits and management fees from the current 15% to the 35% that corporations (are supposed to) pay. Needless to say, the private equity industry fiercely opposed the change, which would have raised $54 billion in new taxes.

The change in the tax code was part of a bill aimed at alleviating the effects of the Alternative Minimum Tax, which now affects 23 million households. The idea was to "fix" the AMT to keep it from being applied too broadly; the resulting loss in revenue could then be made up by increasing taxes on fund managers. But it looks like the managers are too powerful to allow that to happen, at least this time around. Hey, do you think this could have anything to do with campaign contributions and the growing political power of the newly gilded elite? Nah, couldn't be . . .

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