Month: May 2005
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Wall Street Journal mumbo jumbo on progressive indexing
How to pretend that Bush’s plan doesn’t cut benefits relative to current law in three short paragraphs: Democrats immediately opposed Mr. Bush’s proposal–the brainchild of Democratic financier Robert Pozen–as “big benefit cuts.” AARP lobbyist John Rother proved his organization’s lack of sincerity by calling it “an unnecessary and unfair benefit cut on the middle class.”
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Art Torres on Arnold: The worst sort of nativism
Art Torres, who chairs the California Democratic Party,