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The CBO Weighs in on How to Stimulate the Economy
The Congressional Budget Office just released its report on the fiscal policy choices presented to the Congress. It’s not good news for the proponents of extending the Bush Tax Cuts. Projecting to 2020, the report states that under current law the federal deficit in ten years will be $700 Billion. Extending the Bush Tax Cuts Read more
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What does extreme inequality sound like
This is a clever concept by the Working Group on Extreme Inequality. Read more
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One Graph Says it All
I don’t understand why all Democrats aren’t running around with this chart on a T-shirt Probably among the most boring issues on Earth is tax policy. Yet it is also an issue mostly hotly contested especially in America. So that might explain why so many people (myself included) will rely on others to explain tax Read more
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Because Moderates Dont Make History! Thats Why!
If President Obama wants to squander his presidency he should listen to folks like David Brooks and Evan Bayh The punditocracy has been quickly at work presenting the diagnosis and cure for the current Democratic (or should I say democratic) malaise. They are almost exclusively of one voice. Overwhelmingly, they claim that Democrats over-reached Read more
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Republicans Caught Lying um again
Really. How much longer do we have to keep going over this stuff? So here’s the meme. Every time a Republican goes on the campaign stump they must use some version of the “Tax and Spend Liberal” staple of conservative politics. Democrats are all tax and spend liberals. They are going to take your Read more
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