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Quotes and taxes

…enough common ground for us to have a discussion. I will simply note that policies have consequences, and if you purposely support policies knowing damn well that they will probably…

The US economy is in a funk

…determine how Americans emerge from the current malaise. With the right policies, the economy can grow at 3.5% to 4% a year, perhaps a bit more. Without meaningful reforms in…

Money = Wind, Bush and Fox News?

…seen any major news organization go after the 49% not being ideologically serviced. Think that might have something to do with the policies we vote for? But, back to the…

Buckley on Galbraith

…to the Canadian dollar from late 1980 to 1984, shouldn’t we note that most currencies followed this trend during the Reagan-Volcker mix of expansionary fiscal policies and tight monetary policies?…

Reason #5 to Vote for Kerry: Terrorism

…indicates that Bush’s policies have in many cases done more to increase the threat of terrorism rather than reduce it. He has done this in a number of ways. Bush…

…Joel Kaplan, deputy director of the White House budget office, said Bush would halve the deficit “by pursuing very aggressively his pro-growth economic policies, and by leading the Congress toward…