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An Overdue Book

tommy159 Wrote: Nov 30, 2012 8:19 AM

On the contrary, it is a liberal argument that tax rates impact the economy just as much as a conservative one. I have endlessly heard how tax rates were higher under the Clinton regime, and the economy was better, so we should therefore return to the tax rates of those years. It is not conservatives who are putting out this argument, it is people on the left. The assumption is that higher tax rates somehow magically produce a better economy. No real economist believes this. There were other conditions going on back then that simply do not exist today--from international competition to changes in the workforce and population.

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An Overdue Book

If everyone in America had read Stephen Moore's new book, "Who's The Fairest of Them All?", Barack Obama would have lost the election in a landslide.

The point here is not to say, "Where was Stephen Moore when we needed him?" A more apt question might be, "Where was the whole economics profession when we needed them?" Where were the media? For that matter, where were the Republicans?

Since "Who's The Fairest of Them All?" was published in October, there was little chance that it would affect this year's election. But this little gem of a book exposes,...

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