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Calculate your Tax Savings

Calculate your Tax Savings

See your tax cut under Obama’s plan, and compare it to the McCain plan. “Obama is not proposing to raise taxes for most Americans. To the contrary, he would triple the earned-income tax credit for low-wage earners, increasing work incentives at the bottom. He would cut taxes on people in the middle — indeed, he would do so more aggressively than McCain would.” [Sebatian Mallaby, Washington Post, 9/8/08] Rea Hederman Jr., a senior policy analyst at the conservative Heritage Foundation…

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Issues of the Future

Issues of the Future

Jesua at “And No One Heard a Word” created a list of issues which in his opinion “will lead a good percentage of Americans into heated discussions with each other. How one answers the questions above generally serves as an indicator of whether one is liberal or conservative. I wonder what our ‘top 10′ list will look like ten or twenty years from now. Any guesses??” Well, how could I resist? Our issues change a bit over time, and what…

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