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ourfuture.org - 12/3/2008
Tax Cuts or Spending: What's the Best Way to Rescue an Economy?
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It's hard to believe that all conservatives have to offer right now is the Bush tax-cut agenda, but indeed - that's really all they have. Watch this MSNBC clip of Steve Forbes , one of the right's leading economic thinkers: Forbes is given a hanging curveball to bash out of the park, and he ends ...

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Reuters: Obama Backs Off Promise to Pass Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil
Open Left - Front Page — ... Between this move and the move to wait to repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, it seems like the Obama team is buying into the right-wing frame that raising any taxes - even those on the richest citizens and wealthiest corporations - is bad for the economy. Of course, that frame is debunked by history. And while sure, it's OK to rack up deficits so as to spend our way out of the economic crisis, it's sorta silly to ignore the tax moves that could be implemented to limit those deficits where possible.   ...

David Sirota: Mandate Watch: Obama Backs Off Promise to Pass Windfall Profits Tax on Big Oil
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Between this move and the move to wait to repeal the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy, it seems like the Obama team is buying into the right-wing frame that raising any taxes - even those on the richest citizens and wealthiest corporations - is bad for the economy. Of course, that frame is debunked by history. And while sure, it's OK to rack up deficits so as to spend our way out of the economic crisis, it's sorta silly to ignore the tax moves that could be implemented to limit those deficits where possible. ...

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