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The Net-Zero Carbon Tax
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Second, you hear a lot these days about how conservatives need new ideas. And what do you know? The new ideas are all over the place! Meanwhile, what are liberals calling for? Let's see ... universal health care, deficit spending to fight recession, subsidies for alternative fuels, and income tax hikes in the near future. Hmm. As Robert Samuelson points out today, the past year has upended a lot of our expectations about how the economy, government, and society ought to behave. But one thing's for sure. It's still hard to argue that the Democrats are the party of ...

2008: We Learned What We Don’t Know
The Hollywood Liberal — 2008: We Learned What We Don’t Know It’s the end of an era. We know that 2008, much like 1932 or 1980, marks a dividing line for the American economy and society. But what lies on the other side is hazy at best. The great lesson of the past year is how little we understand and can control the economy. This ignorance has bred today’s insecurity, which in turn is now a governing reality of the crisis. Go back to the onset of the crisis in mid-2007. Who then thought that the federal government would rescue Citigroup or the insurance giant AIG; or that the Federal ...