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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; taxes</title>
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		<title>Taxing Email is Useless</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/05/28/taxing-email-is-useless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Derek Thompson at the Atlantic blog writes about a NY Times piece on taxing email. He&#8217;s not advocating it, or arguing against it but looking at the supposed benefits and negatives, and how it would likely increase instant messaging. What &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/05/28/taxing-email-is-useless/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Tax Freedom Day</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/13/happy-tax-freedom-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day that we have earned enough to pay its tax burden for the year. This year&#8217;s day comes earlier than last year, though this is due to recent stimulus effects. Before you start to celebrate though, Doug &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/04/13/happy-tax-freedom-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blaming Obama for the Market</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/blaming-obama-for-the-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Armbruster at ThinkProgress is upset Fred Barnes and Dick Morris are blaming Obama for the post-election declines in the stock market. Armbruster&#8217;s case is a little defensive and misjudged (he cites the New York Times&#8217; opinion, as if that &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/07/blaming-obama-for-the-market/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Policy in the Obama Administration</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/tax-policy-in-the-obama-administration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a technical look at what&#8217;s ahead, fifteen tax profs offer their thoughts on tax policy in the new Obama Administration.]]></description>
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		<title>Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtains</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/24/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alan Reynolds at Cato asks &#8220;How&#8217;s Obama Going to Raise $4.3 Trillion?&#8221; Altogether, Mr. Obama is promising at least $4.3 trillion of increased spending and reduced tax revenue from 2009 to 2018 &#8212; roughly an extra $430 billion a year &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/24/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtains/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is Income Tax Becoming Too Progressive?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/21/is-income-tax-becoming-too-progressive/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/21/is-income-tax-becoming-too-progressive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fewer and fewer people are paying income tax and even less will be with either candidates tax plan. I don&#8217;t think this would be such a problem if we didn&#8217;t have such high spending, growing entitlements, and if so many &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/21/is-income-tax-becoming-too-progressive/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hooray for Mental Health!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/01/hooray-for-mental-health/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/01/hooray-for-mental-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you support the Paulson bailout plan that is. The New York Times has coverage. The Senate proposal would cost more than $100 billion and extend and expand many individual and business tax breaks, including tax credits for the production &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/01/hooray-for-mental-health/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Plan: Does This Work?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obamas-plan-does-this-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Associated Press, a sequence of interviews with Democratic leaders has revealed this to be the political plan being recommended to the Obama campaign: 1. Tie the Republican to an unpopular President Bush. 2. Let no charge go &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obamas-plan-does-this-work/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>George Reisman vs. Barack Obama</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/28/george-reisman-vs-barack-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/28/george-reisman-vs-barack-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Reisman&#8217;s Blog&#8220;The loot?and?plunder theory is the theory of Obama, of the Democratic Party, and of much of the Republican Party. It is time to supplant it with the sound economic theory developed by generations of intellectual giants ranging from &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/28/george-reisman-vs-barack-obama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lone accountant takes on IRS and wins</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/24/lone-accountant-takes-on-irs-and-wins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And millions of us may benefit. The dispute arose when more than 30 mutual life insurance companies became publicly traded corporations in the late 1990s and earlier this decade, in a process known as &#8220;demutualization.&#8221; Mutual companies are owned by &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/24/lone-accountant-takes-on-irs-and-wins/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Taxed to Death?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/16/taxed-to-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe.  Professor Mankiw has the gory details.]]></description>
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		<title>Sheesh!</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/15/sheesh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would call this ignorance, but it is worse than that. The Times reporters just believe corporations are such a honey pot they didn&#8217;t even stop to think. They just wrote.]]></description>
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		<title>Bernanke has a solution</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/bernanke-has-a-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FROM: Dr Ben Bernanke Central Bank of United States of America 01-658-555-1234 TO: CEO Lagos, Nigeria Dear Friend: I have been requested by the regional members Federal Reserve of the USA to contact you for assistance in resolving a matter. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/bernanke-has-a-solution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Conservative Blueprint for Health Care?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/a-conservative-blueprint-for-health-care/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ChrisB</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan Ellis, the Tax Policy Director at Americans for Tax Reform, presents 3 principles of conservative health care. Principle 1: Conservative health care reform should neither raise taxes nor increase the size of government. You’d think this would be a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/14/a-conservative-blueprint-for-health-care/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tropical Tax Paradises</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/tropical-tax-paradises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 16:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital gains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caymans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No sales tax, no income tax, no capital gains tax, no inheritance tax&#8230;.If I could only figure out a way to have income in Grand Cayman, I&#8217;d move without a minute&#8217;s notice. As it stands, it&#8217;s easy to avoid taxes &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/02/tropical-tax-paradises/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Middle Class Burdens</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/01/middle-class-burdens/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/01/middle-class-burdens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 04:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Don Boudreaux, I found this &#8220;Inconvenient Truth&#8221; about the struggles of the middle class. As readers here know, I have long been a bear on housing, but as always those who want their hands on our wallet can &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/05/01/middle-class-burdens/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m with Senator Obama</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/im-with-senator-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/im-with-senator-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2853</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At least on this topic. Economists in general oppose a tax holiday because it would encourage consumption of gasoline at a time of soaring demand. Billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens, a longtime Republican donor, criticized Sen. McCain&#8217;s policy in an &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/im-with-senator-obama/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tragic News for Leftists</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/23/tragic-news-for-leftists/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/23/tragic-news-for-leftists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 18:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Developmental economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to free markets, capitalism and freedom in general, the world is getting wealthier. The last quarter century has witnessed remarkable progress of mankind. The world’s per capita inflation-adjusted income rose from $5400 in 1980 to $8500 in 2005.Schooling and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/23/tragic-news-for-leftists/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Wesley Snipes has put tax protesters in the cross hairs of the IRS</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/21/wesley-snipes-has-put-tax-protesters-in-the-cross-hairs-of-the-irs/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/21/wesley-snipes-has-put-tax-protesters-in-the-cross-hairs-of-the-irs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Actor Wesley Snipes was found not guilty of federal tax fraud and conspiracy charges earlier this month. Basically he blamed it on the tax advice he received. Whether one believes that he didn&#8217;t know that when one earns $38 million &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/21/wesley-snipes-has-put-tax-protesters-in-the-cross-hairs-of-the-irs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>From the mouths of&#8230;Crotchety old socialists</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/18/from-the-mouths-ofcrotchety-old-socialists/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/18/from-the-mouths-ofcrotchety-old-socialists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; There is only one way to kill capitalism – by taxes, taxes, and more taxes. Karl Marx]]></description>
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		<title>Voting With Your Feet</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/voting-with-your-feet/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/voting-with-your-feet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my liberal friends routinely rails at me for being such a selfish, uncaring conservative. When I remind him, though, that he is the one who moved from Minnesota to Florida because he &#8220;could not afford the taxes&#8221; in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/voting-with-your-feet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Oil, Big Taxation</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/06/big-oil-big-taxation/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/06/big-oil-big-taxation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 19:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: ccgd Mick at Uncorrelated picks up a Mark J. Perry story noting that ExxonMobil&#8216;s annual average tax bill, nearly equals total taxes paid by the bottom 50% of individual taxpayers in 2004. In the leftist mind this is perhaps &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/06/big-oil-big-taxation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Kyl &amp; McCain</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/31/kyl-mccain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arnold has to govern liberal California, Rudy had to govern liberal NYC and McCain&#8230;McCain is from Arizona. So what exactly is his excuse for his dramatic shift to the Left over time? Lest you think he has one, here&#8217;s a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/31/kyl-mccain/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Indexing Capital Gains</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/indexing-capital-gains/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Rahn pushes for the indexing of capital gains due to inflation as part of the stimulus. Accounting for inflation in this way has the advantages of producing more short-term revenue to the Treasury as long-term gains are &#8220;unlocked.&#8221; Furthermore, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/23/indexing-capital-gains/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Megan McCardle calls the Democrats bluff</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/megan-mccardle-calls-the-democrats-bluff/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/megan-mccardle-calls-the-democrats-bluff/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to hear any more about how the Democrats are the party of fiscal responsibility; none of them are planning to close the current deficit, much less deal with the now-seriously-it-really-is-looming entitlement problem. Their tax code changes will &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/megan-mccardle-calls-the-democrats-bluff/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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