Posts Tagged ‘dollar’
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Where’s Nancy?
Posted on July 18, 2011
The media loves to spend time speculating about how John Boehner and Eric Cantor are going to round up the votes to pass President Obama’s debt limit legislation. But they...
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Shared Sacrifice
Posted on July 11, 2011
In the context of the debt limit, Democrats have been pushing for tax increases because they want to punish the rich. They believe that because the so-called rich pay only...
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Reductio Ad Absurdem
Posted on July 7, 2011
Reduced to the absurd. Ideologues on both sides of the philosophical divide fall dangerously into this trap. Conservatives who believe that government does not need to exist are every bit...
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Debt and Taxes
Posted on June 27, 2011
Ben Franklin was the one who first said that the only inevitable things in life were death and taxes. These days, the same could probably be said for debt and...
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Sham
Posted on June 1, 2011
The Democrats called it a sham vote. Yesterday, the House voted down an increase in the debt ceiling. The President asked for such a vote, and the Speaker complied. But...
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