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Medicaid Growth

…cuts to address recent budget challenges. Other states may follow as they contend with potential Medicaid budget gaps and look ahead to the implementation of the Medicaid changes in H.R.1….

Open e-mail to Joe Gagnon

…targeting proposal would be a useful addition to your proposal. You don’t argue that it would be necessary for unlimited purchases of agency MBS aiming to hit a prime mortgage…

Wyden’s Proposal for taxing oil and gas speculators

Ron Wyden, Democratic Senator from Oregon who serves on the Senate Finance Committee and the Energy Committee, is generally considered a liberal, though with a mixed bag of positions that…

Kevin Drum makes me blow a gasket

…policies are tax cuts for rich people. Their hero Reagan signed into law a huge tax increase on the non-rich (Greenspan commission proposals). In practice they cut taxes for rich…