While hardly irrelevant, the question of "paying off the debt" is not the truly urgent issue.
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Looking back at the Bush Social Security reform plan — and forward to the (oddly similar) Obama version.
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The Vice President visits a window factory.
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"I can't take advantage of it now which I think is totally unfair…"
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One result of the recession is a desperate scramble for new ways to raise taxes without raising taxes on everyone.
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There's something very pernicious in the administration's budget and tax package.
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This may somehow be "change," but I certainly can't believe in it.
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It has become increasingly clear, both in text and image, that Nadya Suleman, the controversial single mother, too "disabled" to work but not too disabled to bang out 14 children via artificial means, is simply mentally incompetent.
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Obviously anyone who works for the government "works." Point, such as it is, conceded. But the Keynesian doth protest too much.
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The Times' "Ethicist" channels George Costanza.
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