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Published: 07/12/10

Opinion: Tax Bad Choices, Not Necessities

By Michael Medved - AOL News

(July 12) -- With government at every level desperately seeking more revenue to cope with soaring deficits, citizens should evaluate all tax proposals according to two crucial principles: It's better to tax choices than necessities, and bad choices deserve taxation more than good choices. For one thing, these distinctions will help resolve raging debates over efforts to impose new costs on sugary soda, bottled water, candy, tanning salons and other indulgences. Of course, tea party supporters and other conservatives are right to resist all governmental attempts to spend more money, and to ...

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Published: 04/14/10

Debate: Don't Take Anything Off the Table

By not in system - AOL News

(April 14) -- Editor's note: This piece is excerpted from the current issue of National Affairs. Everyone understands that the federal government's finances are a mess and that policymakers have failed to take the problem seriously. "Paying for what you spend is basic common sense," President Barack Obama quipped in June. "Perhaps that's why, here in Washington, it's been so elusive." Unfortunately, this familiar punch line is no longer a laughing matter: The explosion of borrowing in the past two years, and the prospect of unrelenting deficits in the next decade and beyond, portend the ...

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Published: 02/1/10

Opinion: President's Budget Is a Start, at Least

By not in system - AOL News

(Feb. 1) -– The president's budget elevates the issue of fiscal responsibility (good), but fails to achieve it (not good). President Obama proposes spending $3.8 trillion next year and borrowing $1.3 trillion of that. The massive deficits the nation now faces would gradually fall to $706 billion in 2014, before rising back to just over $1 trillion by 2020. Among the larger deficit-reducing proposals in the budget are a three-year nonsecurity discretionary spending freeze, which would save $250 billion over 10 years; a fee on large financial institutions designed to pay back the TARP ...

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Published: 10/14/08

Obama's Tax Plan 'Misleading'

By Mark Impomeni - Politics Daily

Sen. Barack Obama's tax proposals have been getting a more critical look in the press and by watchdog groups as the presidential election draws closer. Those reviews are increasingly finding Obama's tax plan and his claims lacking. Americans for Tax Reform calls Obama's plan and a new tax calculator he has posted on his campaign website, "misleading," and, "a deliberate attempt to deceive voters." And an editorial in the key swing state of Pennsylvania questions the entire premise of Obama's proposal, calling it not tax cuts, but "welfare payments."The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's editorial ...

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