"I think if you get into the way it was written, it's a huge tax and there's no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax ." So says Warren Buffett , Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and perhaps even more importantly, one of the President's biggest supporters in the economic...
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Despina Karras
on 06-28-2009
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This week will mark four months since President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. Four months later, unemployment has reached a 26 year-high, and only $44 billion of 'stimulus' money has been spent . Ironically, a recent Rasmussen poll shows that four months after passing the largest spending...
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Despina Karras
on 06-14-2009
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Good morning, and happy mother's day to all! Here are today's conservative articles and blog posts from around the web. Moira Herbst of BusinessWeek offers input on signs that could indicate an economic recovery has begun. Alfred Tella reports on a discrepancy in recorded job loss numbers and...
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on 05-10-2009
Filed under: cap and trade, capitalism, economic recovery, Conservating reading list, home ownership, job losses, public healthcare, tax issues, economic crisis