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Prescott on Privatization of Social Security

…via Will Willkinson: Readers of this page will recall that I have made this proposal in a previous essay, but readers may also recall a letter that questioned an assumption…

Red vs. Blue

Hmm, someone has taken my post-election suggestions (also, here and here) to heart, though not perhaps in the way I had envisioned: Proposal Would Hit Blue State Taxpayers … Some…

VP Debate Live Bloggin’

…as a big victory for BC04. – Novel Edwards proposal: Taking Iraqis out of Iraq. – Edwards: “They sent 40k troops into Iraq without the body armor they needed ……

…Journal editorial excoriated four Republican senators for opposing President Bush’s proposal to cut taxes permanently. While these four Republicans — Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, John Chafee of…

…accounting: The budget binge is supported by the same kinds of unrealistic projections of future revenues, low-balling of spending and obfuscatory accounting that are now the focus of the Wall…

…paid by corporations. Another complicating factor would be the profits of foreign-owned companies with operations and sales inside the US. One proposal is for such companies to continue paying taxes…

…equivalent to a proposal to increase taxes. So according to Bush logic, we can now recognize this proposal to increase defense spending for what it really is: a tax increase!…

…Root, also submitted a proposal for cafeteria services that seemed to be inflated by $67 million, the officials said. The Pentagon rejected that proposal, they said. The problems involving Halliburton,…

…Districts case did in fact go to District Judge Paul Davis in Austin. Judge Davis did issue a tentative plan (1065C) based on a proposal by Republican Lt. Gov. Ratliff,…