economistmom.com - 8/23/2009
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I know–that’s a silly question; just use the search feature on this blog and plug in “Bush tax cuts” and you’ll find out.
Perhaps I’ve not mentioned as often or as explicitly that Bruce Bartlett , a Reagan Administration supply-side economist, ...
dailylocal.com - 8/16/2009
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dailylocal.com —
WASHINGTON For years, the Bush administration was criticized
for not cleaning up enough of the nation's most...
contaminated waste sites. The Obama administration plans to do even less. Environmental groups and some Democratic lawmakers railed against ...
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The Daily Local News : Serving Chester County
salon.com - 8/21/2009
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salon.com —
( Updated below - Update II - Update
III - Update IV - Update V - Update...
VI ) "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty" -- John Adams, Journal, 1772 ...
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Fringe leftist losers: wrong even when they're right - ...
economistmom.com - 8/26/2009
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economistmom.com —
How about $14 trillion ? $9 trillion ($9.051
trillion) is the Obama Administration’s 10-year deficit projection based...
on their own economic forecast and their own estimate of the costs of their policy proposals (as proposed in their FY2010 ...
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You Think $9 Trillion Sounds Bad?
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... In addition, John McCain strongly supported continuing all of the tax cuts now scheduled to expire at the end of 2010 (As Diane Rogers continues to point out, Obama wants to continue most of them) and continuing the patch the alternative minimum tax that Obama agreed to as part of the stimulus plan. He also would have supported the additional funds for activities in Iraq and Afghanistan that have been provided. And while it's a safe bet that an economic stimulus proposed by a McCain administration would have included somewhat different policies, the bottomline impact on the ...
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