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May 2005 |
| Will the Federal government ever display enough courage--or know-how--to contain the triple-headed beast of Social Security, Medicare, and Income Tax reform? |
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September 2021 |
| "Governments [according to Modern Monetary Theory] do not need to levy taxes in order to spend money. All they need to do to spend money is to print it." |
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May 2002 |
| By November, more than 360,000 may still be jobless. |
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September 2002 |
| Opponents' proposals call for tax increases, benefit cuts, and/or government investing. |
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September 2001 |
| ". . . Americans are further along the way toward having legislation that is designed to enable people to exert more control over their retirement destinies." |
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May 2019 |
| Challenges and uncertainty abound as domestic and global economic growth rates slow and trade talks continue. |
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May 2001 |
| "The contention that trade deficits somehow damage the U.S. economy is directly challenged by its superior performance during times when they are rising." |
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January 2010 |
| Following a series of attacks on private property & free enterprise--beginning in the early 20th century and...during the New Deal, the Great Society, and again recently by the Obama Administration--the gov't outlined in the Constitution has disappeared. |
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January 2007 |
| Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman expounds on the U.S. economy and the societal effects of government policy. |
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September 2007 |
| Traditionally, we have had a very special relationship with the Czech people. There is a substantial reservoir of good will towards Americans. The U.S. has been one of the top five foreign investors in the Czech nation since the Velvet Revolution of 1989. |
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November 2006 |
| "The sectors where expansion will be the greatest--those that will continue to move the economy away from manufacturing--are the areas where the skills deficit will be most noticeable." |
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January 2006 |
| "The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." |
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November 2015 |
| "Where free banking was given a reasonable trial…it functioned well for the typical user of money and banking services." |
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May 2002 |
| The Federal Reserve Chairman's "attempt to head off recession through lower interest rates not only failed to prevent it, but actually slowed the economy's pace." |
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September 2008 |
| ". . . Efforts to control sprawl have led to . . . unaffordable housing, higher land costs for business and industry, housing bubbles and busts, and increasing barriers to homeownership for low- and moderate-income families." |
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January 2015 |
| "If you like your weak economy, you can keep your weak economy." |
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September 2019 |
| The economic case for increasing the Federal minimum wage is quite dubious. |
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November 2003 |
| "Unless the damaging trends that have been set in motion are reversed quickly, we could see vast numbers of environmental refugees abandoning areas scarred by depleted aquifers and exhausted soils. . . ." |
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July 2001 |
| "Profound ignorance of the nation's market system and an unwillingness to trust buyers and sellers to manage their own affairs turned a desirable objective into the world's most-expensive train wreck." |
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November 2015 |
| "Venezuela's annual inflation rate [is] 335%--the highest in the world. For those holding bolivars, it amounts to no rule of law and bad money." |
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March 2021 |
| "Debt clocks are mounted in prominent places, spinning wildly upward, designed to shock the conscience, but where are the national asset clocks, spinning wildly upward, designed to sooth the conscience?" |
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January 2021 |
| "The [Kirsten Gillibrand and Bernie Sanders] bill and other recent proposals for postal banking seek to provide a consumer-friendly alternative to state-regulated payday lending, and to the check-cashing services presently used by the unbanked." |
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November 2007 |
| "What then can we say of those who today remain attached to socialism as a political goal? We can say that they do not know or have not understood the economic history of the last 300 years. . . ." |
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January 2020 |
| "The U.S. farm economy has demonstrated its resiliency in the face of trade wars, extreme weather, and other disruptive events." |
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September 2005 |
| "We have the potential to become a world of trading partners who depend on each other for the well-being of our people. That certainly is a future less threatening than the one we know at present." |
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March 2021 |
| "The pursuit of happiness should not be some abstract language in a historic document; it should be the intended outcome of engineers controlling money creation for the purpose of optimizing the U.S. for its people." |
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May 2006 |
| Trade is just one of the many pieces of a very large and complex portfolio that comprises American farm policy. |
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March 2015 |
| "In a free economy, the pursuit of profits and serving people are one in the same." |
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November 2002 |
| "The forces of technology, globalization, deregulation, shareholder power, and free agency have combined to change the social contract between the individual and the organization." |
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November 2019 |
| "[These communities] assist in assimilating immigrants into the U.S. economy, and policies focused on maximizing entrepreneurial activity will most improve the enclave's quality." |
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May 2021 |
| '. . . Actions by both the Fed and the Treasury resulted in a second severe monetary contradiction that would reverse many signs of the gains achieved over the course of the preceding four years [of the Great Depression]." |
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May 2015 |
| "The Great Depression, the great stagflation, and the 2008 financial crisis (aka the Great Recession) all have occurred on the [Federal Reserve Bank's] watch." |
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March 2019 |
| "The global economy is slowing and the effects will spread to U.S. shores. World economic output hit an eight-year high in 2018, powered by advanced economies and emerging markets, but challenges mounted late last year…" |
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March 2022 |
| As we enter the third year of the pandemic, the COVID-19 virus still is in control of the economy, and it likely will remain so through much of the first half of the year. |
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May 2013 |
| Unlike Reagan, Coolidge distinguished government austerity from private-sector austerity, combined deficit cuts with tax cuts, and made a moral case for saying "no." A political leader who does the same today may find an electorate that says "yes." |
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July 2012 |
| This is an issue that can be gotten under control and, for the sake of the economy, must be gotten under control. |
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November 2019 |
| ". . . The single best policy to protect American consumers and to foster financial inclusion is to ensure that people have the ability to make their own choices in the free markets." |
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November 2011 |
| The economy is affecting divorcing couple the way it is affecting everyone--encouraging frugality and collaboration. |
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July 2021 |
| ". . . When the CARES Act passed in the early weeks of the pandemic and expanded unemployment insurance benefits to this class of workers, it placed a spotlight on just how much we do not know about the size of gig economy." |
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November 2018 |
| "Watching mom and dad engage in charitable activities reinforces the perception that your family values acts of generosity. The more this notion is reinforced, the better." |
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May 2012 |
| Somehow, my stock certificates, electronic accounts, and insurance policies do not generate the same sense of pride and connection to my country's history as the gold American Eagle and Buffalo coins that I own. |
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September 2004 |
| "How did the man who engineered the collapse of the greatest economy in history . . . Ushering in the longest market decline since the Great Depression, costing 2,500,000 people their jobs . . . Keep his position, let alone achieve such a lofty status?" |
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July 2021 |
| ". . . Confronting the challenges posed by population aging . . . Will test our ability to change, adapt, and evolve." |
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September 2018 |
| Houses--especially single-family residences--in close proximity to legalized retail marijuana stores have increased in value by almost 10%. |
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November 2021 |
| People who care about housing affordability, income inequality, and economic stability, need to recognize that government planners in both the U.S. and China largely are responsible for rising housing prices, income inequality, and economic volatility. |
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March 2011 |
| ". . . The depiction of the U.S.'s expected fall from grace has become 'the preferred intellectual preoccupation of the elite--left, right, and center.' " |
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January 2017 |
| "A class society has inserted itself within the folds of what once was a classless country, as a dominant New Class…has pulled up the ladder of social advancement behind it." |
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May 2004 |
| "Policymakers have to refocus their energies away from trying to stop outsourcing to finding ways to help those affected." |
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July 2009 |
| ". . . If half of the population believes that it is entitled to have someone else pay for government, we should not be surprised if public support for economic freedom continues to erode." |
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January 2012 |
| ". . . The 'invisible hand' does not exist, and it is time that this hoary belief is replaced by something better. . . ." |
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March 2022 |
| "[There is] a special term for a fall in the price of money--inflation. As the price of money falls, the price of every other commodity must go up." |
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January 2002 |
| "It's never too soon to become an effective money manager and improve your financial well-being." |
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September 2019 |
| "…Socialism should be explained with a best sceintific effort and analyzed with methods of logic -- not preached about in nonquantifiable, emotional right- or left- leaning dogma." |
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March 2003 |
| "In the current employment market, with so many talented people looking for work, it is necessary, regardless of age and experience, to be a lot more creative and aggressive when it comes to a job search." |
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November 2009 |
| "If the U.S., EU, and Japan agreed to guarantee a new [International Monetary Fund] currency, it theoretically could come into existence, but there is not the slightest prospect that hard-currency countries will do so." |
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May 2013 |
| An economist asks, "Why in the world are we all Keynesians again?". |
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November 2004 |
| High tax rates don't stop someone from being rich. Wealthy individuals move their money to protected havens. High tax rates stop poor people from getting rich & entrepreneurs from supplying goods & services that generate wealth, jobs, value & tax revenue. |
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March 2021 |
| "We should commit to using our ability to innovate to find a way to share broadly the benefits of a strong U.S. economy with all Americans." |
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March 2021 |
| ". . . Despite the lip service politicians pay to the middle class, national policies over the last 40 years systematically have decimated it." |
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July 2010 |
| ". . . The uncertain and dangerous world in which we live requires a serious rethinking of the tendency of the last half-century to reduce the portion of the nation's resources and, specifically, of the government's budget devoted to national defense." |
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September 2012 |
| In the late 1960s and early 1970s, large swaths of American cities burned. It could happen again, and this time, it might not be restricted to poor areas. |
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March 2021 |
| The 'Roosevelt Recession,' as Republicans especially refer to it, was to alter FDR's policies in two ways. It marked the winding down of the New Deal and signaled the beginning of 'Keynesian' fiscal policy, first out of necessity, but then of belief, |
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May 2011 |
| "The anti-business and -economic growth opinions held by the current Administration are mirrored by punitive business tax rates and stringent environmental regulations, spurring many firms to transfer their operations to other countries. . . ." |
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May 2004 |
| "Cost reductions from outsourcing . . . open up new market opportunities for U.S. companies to generate additional jobs here at home. . . . Outsourcing and the savings its generates are the beginning--not the end--of the adjustment process." |
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September 2021 |
| "Due to [a] maelstrom of mismanagement [involving the Small Business Administration's pandemic programs], hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars have been placed at undue risk." |
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March 2009 |
| "Although the cyclical nature of history holds forth the promise that politics will manage to regain control of the economy, these hard decades of rogue economics once again will be the high price that we pay for our conquests." |
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May 2021 |
| ". . . The absence of minimum balance requirements or account maintinence fees on FedAccounts would make them attractive to 'millions of people who currently choose not to or are unable to maintain bank accounts." |
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January 2003 |
| "The first step is to take a thorough inventory of your financial superstructure--mutual funds, stock and bond portfolios, insurance, tax strategies, retirement plans, trusts, everything--so that they can be realigned in light of today's realities." |
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March 2010 |
| State and local lawmakers would best serve the interests of the majority of their constituents by avoiding public-sector collective bargaining. Short of that, they need the ability to drive a harder bargain. |
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January 2022 |
| "The world held its breath as suprise, bewilderment, desperation, and outright panic dominated. . . . Levels of nervousness discomfort, and . . . suspicion shot through the roof." |
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September 2007 |
| "Through diligence & hard work, avoidance of complacency, an active citizenry, election of worthy leaders, & a strong sense of morality, the U.S. can emerge as the undisputed leader of the free world in every sense of the phrase for many years to come." |
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January 2001 |
| "A speculative revenue crisis doesn't justify giving new taxing authority to states to treat all businesses badly in the name of fairness." |
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July 2003 |
| A growing number of retirees, declining fertility rates, and a labor force that simply does not possess the right skills to meet employers' needs are leading to shortages of workers for many positions. |
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May 2003 |
| ". . . What really matters for personal accounts isn't how they would have performed over the last year, or over any single year. For retirement investment, what matters is where you start and where you wind up." |
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May 2005 |
| Are members of Congress enjoying the benefits of insider trading at the expense of taxpayers? |
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July 2015 |
| "If you want to become financially independent, you must live within your means, and that translates into carefully controlling and budgeting your spending over the summer." |
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January 2004 |
| "Half of Xerox's employees work on foreign soil and less than half of Sony's employees are Japanese. More than 50% of IBM's revenues originate overseas; the same is true for Citigroup, ExxonMobil, DuPont, Procter & Gamble, and many other corporate giants. |
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September 2021 |
| "Lessons from the [Earned Income Tax Credit] show that the 2021 [Child Tax Credit] expansion has the potential to improve both child and parent health as well as educational outcomes for children." |
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March 2001 |
| "The technological advances that increase competition and the benefits it creates are fostering political perversity in the form of antitrust litigation that undermines those benefits." |
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November 2010 |
| ". . . 'The government has been hijacked by the economic elite' and . . . their spokesmen, lobbysits, and campaign contributors have an important voice in every decision while ordinary people have none." |
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July 2004 |
| With South Korea flexing its considerable economic muscle on the world stage, the U.S. suddenly has a new competitor--and partner--in the ever-evolving global marketplace |
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January 2005 |
| The major republic of the former Soviet Union is full of economic possibilities--and major pitfalls. |
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May 2020 |
| In applying the insights of C.S. Lewis, the government's power of the purse under Medicare for All provides justification for a bureaucracy of 'omnipotent moral busibodies' who torment us for our own good without end. |
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July 2016 |
| "[Economic research] is meant to speak to interested policymakes and reinforce the idea that trade policy is not just an issue that stands apart from larger issues concerning the social fabric of the U.S." |
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March 2012 |
| "In terms of income inequality, the U.S. now lags behind most of Western Europe, while the nations that are closest to the U.S. are Russia (run by its oligarchs) and Iran (with its mullahs)." |
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January 2011 |
| "There is a substantial chance that the U.S. economy is headed into a lost decade, similar to what Japan has experienced in the last 15 years. . . ." |
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September 2019 |
| "This is the same crowd that fervently believes in Keynesian theory, and they have a name for their belief, Modern Monetary Theory…For this group, all government problems can be solved by printing money." |
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March 2014 |
| ". . . Our nation's recent political dialogue, especially under Pres. [Barack] Obama, has been focused on income inequality--in particular, who should get their 'fair share' of the nation's wealth from our lagging economy." |
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July 2005 |
| "No longer are Republicans arguing with Democrats about whether government should be big or small. Instead, they are at odds over what kind of big government the U.S. should have." |
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May 2008 |
| Democratic capitalism still has not vanquished the idea of collectivism. As proof, merely look at how our government embraces the concepts of socialism at the expense of free trade and other economic truths. |
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March 2002 |
| "While the slowing economy means that Gen Xers will no longer receive offers on a silver platter, it doesn't mean that the jobs are drying up." |
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November 2001 |
| "A larger role for the IMF in the international economy will not reduce the frequency and severity of financial crises or promote reform." |
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July 2002 |
| ". . . To conduct audits, the purpose of which is to build a database from which countless taxpayers will be selected for even-more-extensive audits, is not only irrational, but unreasonable and invasive." |
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May 2009 |
| There are several reasons to believe the bailout will be ineffective--most importantly because it is being implemented badly. The stimulus plan cobbled together by the Obama Administration and Congress will worsen the nation's long-term financial outlook. |
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September 2011 |
| ". . . The admirers of Adam Smith have more in common with the followers of the Good Book than we might suppose. . . . Dismal science was born as an epithet meant to dismiss those arguing that slaves deserved their freedom." |
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March 2004 |
| The American economy sports a sleek new look as it shakes off the shackles of recession. |
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May 2015 |
| Theories from the Great Depression still haunt the nation as the economy continues to struggle to shake off the shackles of the Great Recession. |
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July 2013 |
| "Four major alternative ways of reforming Federal taxation that focus directly or indirectly on consumption have been developed," but none of them will be adopted by Congress. |
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July 2011 |
| Under the Obama Administration, "income redsitribution and environmentalism [have taken] precedence over the materialistic needs of business and commerce." |
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| "The coronavirus crisis disproportionately affects 21.3% of American workers in retail, leisure, and hospitality, who not only face lack of work, but suffer from long-standing, below-average wages." |
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March 2010 |
| ". . . The average government worker now earns more than the average private-sector worker. This relationship is occurring during a period in which all levels of government are facing unprecedented budget deficits." |
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September 2003 |
| "An improved living standard is a potent antidote to the discontent that frequently fuels fanatacism." |
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September 2019 |
| There has been an "absence of any coherent, fresh ideas from the Democratic presidential aspirants that would differentiate their trade policies from Pres. [Donald] Trump's…" |
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Economics |
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November 2019 |
| "Ultimately, the [Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act] will not fix the entire immigration system, but it would accomplish its purpose: making the system fairer." |
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Economics |
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July 2019 |
| Blue collar America is satisfied on the job and at home. |
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May 2016 |
| "Awareness…always is the first step down a better path." |
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