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justoneminute.typepad.com - 3/26/2009
I Give Up!
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During his press conference Obama explained, apparently with a straight face, that making it more expensive for people to donate to charity will not affect the level of charitable donations. He further insisted that he was basing this counter-intuitive claim...
timesonline.co.uk - 3/23/2009
Give Obama more time. Then give him hell | Andrew Sullivan
— timesonline.co.uk — The former New York City mayor Ed Koch was renowned for strolling about Manhattan when he was... in office, grabbing strangers by the lapel and asking, How am I doing? This is not exactly Barack Obama s style he shimmers around, with a dry but ... (more) Give Obama more time. Then give him hell | Andrew Sullivan

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openleft.com - 3/24/2009
Seriously, Give Us Our Bonuses, Or We Will Destroy the Economy
— openleft.com — The Wall Street Journal has an article up about the Obama administration's outreach efforts to Wall Street.... Among the cute stories about hashing out the housing plan over pizza with banking executives, come the underlying story of how the bonus tax ... (more) Seriously, Give Us Our Bonuses, Or We Will Destroy the ...

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Give an inch, and they try to take it all
sistertoldjah.com - 3/24/2009
Give an inch, and they try to take it all
— sistertoldjah.com — The Washington Post has a disturbing report this morning that talks about a plan under consideration by... the Obama administration to give Treasury the unprecendented authority “to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies”:  ... (more) Give an inch, and they try to take it all

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Flopping Aces:  Obama’s Collectivism Will Hurt Charities

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Obama’s Collectivism Will Hurt Charities
Flopping Aces — ... Recent work by Treasury Department economist David Joulfaian (2000), based on a sample of 1992 decedents, exemplifies this line of research. His preferred estimates suggest that a 1-percent increase in the price of a charitable bequest reduces such bequests by 1.7 percent, and a 1-percent increase in aftertax wealth raises charitable bequests by 1.2 percent—that is, he finds that charitable bequests are more sensitive to price than to wealth. JustOneMinute has the details of a 2005 study, which we really don’t need. It’s ...

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