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Posted at October 6, 2008 at 8:18 am

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Here is a great commercial about our national debt from Scott Kleeb, Democratic candidate for Senate in Nebraska.





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Posted at June 1, 2008 at 11:20 am

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Make sure to thank your children for your economic stimulus check because they will be the ones that will be paying it back.

Whichever way you look at it, both the U.S. and U.K. governments are handing their citizens cash that was borrowed—and the citizens themselves are liable for the debt. If my bank manager arranged a surprise loan in my name and handed me the cash, I might feel pampered or put-upon, depending on whether I was planning to take out the loan myself anyway. Either way, doubt I would feel any richer. …

Who will be the fall guy? We don’t know for sure because we can’t say whom a future government will tax. But an obvious candidate would be today’s teenagers, very few of whom pay income tax today but most of whom will pay income tax in the next few years. Their best hope is that their grandparents add the tax windfall to their bequests rather than blowing the money on a weekend in the sun.

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Posted at September 21, 2007 at 8:21 am

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Forget about the $9 trillion national debt, or the fact that every person owes over $29,000 on that debt, or the US dollar trading even with the Canadian dollar for the first time since 1976.

Bush says he is doing a great job being fiscally responsible and the economy is just great.

I got an A, however, in keeping taxes low and being fiscally responsible with the people’s money.

h/t Andrew Sullivan

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Posted at March 27, 2007 at 8:51 am

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Here is who you owe money to…Here is how much money you owe on the National Debt.

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Posted at February 4, 2007 at 11:08 am

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On Saturday, Tom Vilsack spoke at the DNC Winter Meetings. I caught most of the speech on CSPAN and thought Vilsack did very well. Radio Iowa has a very good writeup on the speech.Vilsack’s theme was pushing for real change. Vilsack spoke against No Ch…

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Posted at January 4, 2007 at 11:42 am

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Not Extending Temporary Tax Cuts is NOT Increasing Taxes There’s a story yesterday on MyDD and Chris also wrote about, but it is worth repeating. Not extending Bush’s temporary handouts to the most wealthy is not increasing taxes. I’d give back my coup…

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