nytimes.com - 1/13/2009
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A trillion here, a trillion there ... President-elect Barack Obama is warning us to expect trillion-dollar budget deficits “for years to come.”The economy is in a precipitous downturn and no one, on the left or right, is advocating tax increases that would jeopardize a recovery. In the meantime, ...
nytimes.com - 1/16/2009
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Last Sunday President-elect Barack Obama was asked whether
he would seek an investigation of possible crimes by...
the Bush administration. “I don’t believe that anybody is above the law,” he responded, but “we need to look forward as opposed to looking ...
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Op-Ed Columnist: Forgive and Forget?
nytimes.com - 1/9/2009
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President-elect Barack Obama explained why the nation needs
aggressive action to deal with the economic crisis, and...
he’s right. But his economic plan falls well short of what’s needed. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Obama Gap
nytimes.com - 1/19/2009
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nytimes.com —
Like President Bush before him, Barack Obama knows
he, too, will be a war president and that...
the decisions he makes as commander in chief will be his most consequential. >
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Op-Ed Columnist: The Next War President
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... NYT's Bob Herbert proposes a revenue raiser: "At some point, however, someone is going to have to talk about raising revenue. The dreaded T-word is going to come up: taxes. ... The economist Dean Baker is a strong advocate of a financial transactions tax. This would impose a small fee — ranging up to, say, 0.25 percent — on the sale or transfer of stocks, bonds and other financial assets, including the seemingly endless variety of exotic financial instruments that have been in the news so much lately ... the fees would be a trivial expense for what the general public tends to ...
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... president, to become the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. * Obama is going to nominate the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' William Corr as deputy director of the Department of Health and Human Services. Good move. * Lt. Gen. Douglas E. Lute will stay on in his role of coordinating Iraq and Afghanistan policy out of the National Security Council. * This is one of the many reasons the FDA has become a joke under Bush. * How about a financial transactions tax ? * Jon Stewart argues that Obama is being far too ...
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