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McCain’s anti-Hillary Google ad
John McCain is running this lovely anti-Hillary Google ad, which just showed up in my sidebar: If you click on the ad, you go to a mock quiz touting McCain’s electability against Hillary.
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NYT questions McCain’s supply-side claims
Unlike last week’s article by Michael Cooper, today’s New York Times report by David Leonhardt (an economics reporter) questions John McCain’s pattern of claiming that tax cuts increase revenue: On several occasions over the last year, Mr. McCain has said that tax cuts can reduce the deficit by spurring additional activity that, in turn, leads
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Laffer on the conspiracy against him
Supply-side guru Arthur Laffer has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal making the case for the fantasy that tax cuts increase revenue: In the 1920s, the highest federal marginal income tax rate fell to 24% from 78%. Those people who earned over $100,000 had their share of total taxes paid rise — from 29.9%
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The NYT doesn’t endorse Rudy
In the course of endorsing John McCain, the New York Times rips apart Rudy Giuliani: Mr. Giuliani’s arrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking. When he claims fiscal prudence, we remember how he ran through surpluses without a thought to the inevitable downturn and bequeathed huge deficits to his successor. He fired Police Commissioner William Bratton,
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Yet more McCain supply-side “straight talk”
Jon Chait catches the latest supply-side flim-flam from John McCain: Mr. McCain proclaimed himself a believer in the notion that cutting taxes increases revenue for the government by spurring economic growth. “Don’t listen to this siren song about cutting taxes,” Mr. McCain told supporters gathered here under a tent in a driving rain. “Every time
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The Republican presidential supply-siders
Rudy Giuliani “When I became mayor of New York City, things were out of control. I lowered taxes, I reduced the growth of government, made government more accountable, and New York City boomed. I would do these things for America because I know they work. I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues. Democrats don’t
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A test of the “RATS” effect
Do you remember the controversy over the Bush campaign’s negative ad in 2000 that flashed the word “RATS”? It seemed like a silly issue, but I just came across a paper in which Joel Weinberger and Drew Westen (the newfound Democratic strategy guru) find that a subliminal stimulus in the word “RATS” is flashed “increased
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When tax families attack!
Paul Krugman notes the return of “tax families” in a White House fact sheet on the president’s views on economic stimulus: While passing a new growth package is our most pressing economic priority, Congress needs to turn next to the most important economic priority for our country – making sure the tax relief that is
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Demand for Bloomberg surges!
Eight days after launch, the Draft Bloomberg petition is up to 1971 signatures! And I thought Unity ’08 (35,000 members in eight months and 124,000 members at the time of its hiatus) was a debacle… PS Only 14 percent of the public has a favorable view of Bloomberg according to a NBC News/Wall Street Journal
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Matthew Yglesias reads McCain’s mind
Matthew Yglesias is usually pretty careful, but this McCain riff is Dowd-level mind reading — time to break out the swami: After all, throughout all his flipping and flopping and back again of the past ten years, the “cares about people in economic pain” persona is one he’s never tried on. And I think he’s