online.wsj.com - 10/8/2008
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John McCain needs to show the nation that he has the economic recovery plan to restore long-term economic growth. To do that, he needs to refocus his campaign with a new tax plan. Mr. McCain should come out for an alternative, optional flatter tax system, which he has already supported. Under ...
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kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com - 10/15/2008
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kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.com —
It certainly wasn’t the big-bang across-the-board tax-reform and
tax-cut plan that I and others lobbied for. But
John McCain’s “Pension and Family Security Plan” unveiled today on the campaign trail does have some solid pro-growth nuggets. I’m calling ...
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THE DAILY NEWS
Let's Call Off the Recession - Louis Woodhill, Real Clear Markets
It's Time to Think Big on Tax Cuts - Jack Kemp & Peter Ferrara, WSJ
Taxes Are Headed Up Regardless - James Carter & James Miller, IBD
The Bailout and the Vanishing Taxpayer - Steven Malanga, RCP
A Trade Free Zone - Conn Carroll, Heritage Foundation
Lessons From the Bailout - Walter Williams, Townhall.com
Can I Bailout from the Bailout? ...
"Tax-Cut Follies"
Economist's View —
... and pundits in the United States that views tax cuts as the panacea
for any conceivable economic woe, and even some social ones. They tenaciously
hold on to this doctrine, even though the United States ranks as one of the
least-taxed nations... (Table 2
here). ...
The school’s views are trotted out with regularity on the editorial page of
The Wall Street Journal. The latest installments ... in commentaries penned
by a UCLA
economist, Lee Ohanian, and
by former
Representative Jack Kemp and Peter Ferrara. A few months earlier,
a
Nobel laureate ...
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