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Fresh Start for the Budgeting Process
A UC Berkeley professor, and former California State Assemblymember, once told me that one of his biggest pet peeves about state government was that every time the budgeting process begins they start with what was in the previous budget. Why not start from scratch and look at the current needs of the people? A UC Berkeley professor, and former California State Assemblymember, once told me that one of his biggest pet peeves about state gover... more
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More than 200 economists reject Clinton/McCain gas-tax plans
One thing we do NOT want in the next President is someone who panders bullshit ideas like this to the public.
From Bloomberg:
"More than 200 economists, including four Nobel prize winners, signed a letter rejecting proposals by presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and John McCain to offer a summertime gas-tax holiday.
Columbia University economist Joseph Stiglitz, former Congressional Budget Office Director Alice Rivlin and 2007 Nobel winner Roger Myerson are among those who signed the letter calling proposals to temporarily lift the tax a bad idea. Another is Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was member of President George H.W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers.
The moratorium would mostly benefit oil companies while increasing the federal budget deficit and reducing funding for the government highway maintenance trust fund, the economists said. "
Terry McAuliffe, Hillary's campaign chairman, says "Economists don't matter." Watch: http://bravenewfilms.org/blog/37834-mcauliffe-economist... One thing we do NOT want in the next President is someone who panders bullshit ideas like this to the public. From Bloomberg: ... more
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