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04.20.2009 5:41 pm

The trickle-up effect

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We have all heard the news that the national debt now stands at $11 trillion . Eleven trillion dollars is such a large number that it is difficult to grasp. The national debt is the amount owed by the government,…

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04.17.2009 9:39 pm

Five things that brought people to the tea parties

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

There are those who say the tea parties have no central message. True, creation of a single central message is made more difficult when so many things are getting out of whack, all at the same time.

But  it is a…

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03.09.2009 4:33 pm

The myth of “taxpayers’ money”

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Perhaps the most misleading words about our economy are “taxpayers’ money.” Let’s keep two facts in mind:
1. The federal government is not a tax payer; it is a tax receiver. So when the government spends money it is not spending…

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02.09.2009 4:20 pm

Economic stimulus: Here we go again

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

You know how they say that if you don’t study history, you are bound to repeat it?
Well, here we go again.

Things I have been hearing on the radio and television sound eerily familiar. This week I have heard over…

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07.03.2008 12:40 pm

Beware churches: The surest way to lose independence is to be in the government’s purse

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

So Barack Obama showed his religious audience he was comfortable talking their talk suggesting that the government could have a hand in helping church-based social services (Post-Dispatch, July 2, 2008.) The only thing I have to say about that is to the church…

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06.02.2008 6:12 pm

With a few changes, we all could be rich

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What the writer of “Getting by, in a Pinch” failed to mention in the calculus of working class Americans who are just getting by is the single word, taxes. While the median household income may be about $50,000 per year,…

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