weeklystandard.com - 2/2/2009
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Time 's Michael Scherer writes :
At the start of the year, Barack Obama's team announced, to some significant fanfare, that the president wanted 40 percent of the stimulus package, or about $300 billion, to come in the form of tax cuts.
On Friday, the Congressional Budget Office scored ...
huffingtonpost.com - 1/29/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
Rank-and-file Congressional Democrats had been willing to give
Republicans the business tax cuts and other provisions they
wanted in the stimulus. That is, up until every single one GOPer voted against the bill on the House floor Wednesday. Now, ...
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Dems To Leadership: Cut GOP Loose
foxnews.com - 1/28/2009
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foxnews.com —
The House of Representatives approved an $819 billion
economic stimulus package Wednesday that President Obama has said
is necessary to revive the economy. The final vote was 244-188, mostly along party lines as expected. The legislation includes an ...
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House Passes $819B Stimulus Package - Presidential ...
thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/6/2009
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Obama...Let's Not Let Details Get In The Way Of My Gigantic Spending Plans
Ace of Spades HQ —
... . And as for who has some differences to resolve, the President make want to ask House Democrats why they came up with only $182.3 billion in tax cuts when he originally proposed around $300 billion in "tax cuts" (though a good bit of that was really just transfer payments to non income tax payers). These aren't "very modest differences", they are profoundly different versions of the role of government and people in a free society. Also, only one of these will actually work, while the other does nothing more than empower government for generations.
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