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Daily Archive for May 29th, 2009

The politicians really cannot help themselves. Here is one from today: The president, after all, had taken great pains to explain that this is more than an American success story. Rather, it is Judge Sotomayor’s biography that uniquely qualifies her to sit on the nation’s highest bench — that gives her the “empathy” to rule […]

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Techniques for Killing the Lawn

I happened to be reading each of these two pieces at the same time – eerily harmonious they are: Marty Feldstein and Marian Vallient on, “Can State Taxes Redistribute Income?” In it they say: The evidence presented in this paper supports the basic theoretical presumption that state and local governments cannot redistribute income. Since individuals […]

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