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A Lovely Fantasy
A napkin flutters from Bill Clinton’s pocket Continue reading
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Connect “tax loophole cleanup” with “pay for the war”
The President should press to “pay for the wars” by closing tax loopholes, under the idea we are now going to clean up the Republicans’ mess. Puts a different context on getting our financial house in order. Wars as a … Continue reading
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Tax code housecleaning
It is the wrong argument to debate raising tax rates on the rich or any other group, without first dealing with an easier and potentially quite fruitful area of Federal Government targeted hand-outs. I define tax code handouts as any … Continue reading
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Those “founding fathers”…
I am amused to hear the overused, grand pronouncements about the “founding fathers”, especially from the Tea Party. No groups could be further apart. Group #1 – activist, creatively intellectual, well educated (Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, etc.), scientists, lawyers, theologians and philosophers, … Continue reading
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