Following a string of better-than-expected economic data – including Monday’s durable goods report — and a rally that took major averages to 5-year highs, talk is once again heating up about the Fed’s “exit strategy.”

Last week at Davos, George Soros said there is a risk of a “big leap” in interest rates “once the economy gets going.”

But don’t expect any hints of the Fed getting ready to remove stimulus at this week’s FOMC meeting, says Princeton professor and former Fed vice chair Alan Blinder.

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“It’s never too soon to start thinking about it [but] I’d be very surprised if Fed even starts on its exit starting in 2013,” Blinder says. “I wouldn’t even bet on 2014.”

Blinder’s view is based, first, on a forecast that U.S. economy will only grow about 2.5% this year. And that’s assuming “nothing terrible happens; we could still have national debt ceiling crisis,” he warns.

Second, he says it’s premature for the Fed to exit

Republican governors of Kansas, Nebraska and Louisiana are pushing to eliminate personal and corporate income taxes, setting up a possible fight with the Obama administration, which has already vowed to reform the nation’s tax code this year. To make up the lost revenue, these governors would raise the state sales tax.

These proposals are “open, explicit reverse Robin Hoodism” writes Paul Krugman, The New York Times columnist and author of many books including End This Depression Now! The elimination of the income tax would result in a huge tax break for the rich, Krugman notes, and “substantial losses for the bottom 60%.” A higher sales tax disproportionately affects ordinary, working class families, he argues.

“It’s not something that you can easily justify in economic terms,” Krugman says in an interview with The Daily Ticker. “There’s no real justification for it except we like rich people.”

According to Krugman, middle and lower income people, not the rich, are already paying the