ryanavent.com - 11/3/2009
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What if for one year — just one year — we allocated as much money for infrastructure as we did for defense?
What if? Well, this year, that would mean devoting $680 billion to investments in infrastructure. That’s more than $200 billion more than Oberstar’s entire proposed ...
nytimes.com - 29 days ago
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nytimes.com —
Congress threw good money after bad this week
when it voted to extend and expand a wasteful...
home buyer’s tax credit set to expire at the end of the month. The new program, which will continue through the spring, is being portrayed as a rescue plan ...
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A Bad Way to Spend Money
moonbattery.com - 11/4/2009
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moonbattery.com —
Where did all those $billions and $billions in
"stimulus" money go? CNBC managed to chase down a...
few $million: Dems are still sitting on the vast majority of the cash that was supposedly so urgently needed, in hopes it can be used to buy ...
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Your Money at Work
qando.net - 11/1/2009
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qando.net —
W ho was it who said “the government
powerful enough to give you things is powerful enough...
to take things away”? Well that has never been more true than in California where the state has decided to arbitrarily increase withholding by ...
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California – “We Need The Money More Than ...
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The WonkLine: November 3, 2009
Wonk Room —
... Ryan Avent asks “what if for one year — just one year — we allocated as much money for infrastructure as we did for defense?” ...
Reconstruction for the USA
Matthew Yglesias —
... Ryan Avent asks what would happen if for just one year we spent as much on infrastructure investments as we do on the Department of Defense: ...
Read It and Weep
The Moderate Voice —
... Ryan Avent asks what would happen if for just one year we spent as much on infrastructure investments as we do on the Department of Defense: ...
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