Archive for February, 2009
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Political Ironies
Here are three political ironies from the last few days:
First, as Obama has required greater transparency and stricter scrutiny over who works for his administration, he is now receiving criticism for four of his picks — Tim Geithner, Nancy Killefer, Tom Daschle, and Bill Richardson — the latter three all withdrawn. Yet were it not […]
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Monday, February 2nd, 2009
The Great American Free Market Fallacy
It is kind of fun to hear the liberals on one side decry the evils of deregulation while the conservatives moan about Wall Street greed. Those furthest to the left triumph in the fall of capitalism while the Republican ideologues are in a panic about government intervention and seek shelter in tax cuts. But the […]
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Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Why GOP Governors Need the Stimulus
The Bush tax cuts were nothing more than a delayed tax hike. For the last eight years, we increased public spending – especially on warfare – while decreasing tax revenues from both individual and corporate taxpayers. The way we paid for the tax cuts in the short term was to simply borrow that money abroad. […]
