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Nick Griffin Party: British National Party Policies: Advocates repatriation of "nonindigenous" Britons, stopping immigration and barring asylum seekers unless citizens of France, Ireland or the Faroe Islands Quote: "Berlusconi has to be one of the great political geniuses" - Griffin admires Italy's premier, whose coalition includes the far-right Lega Nord...
...load to take on - which then gives traction to this notion that we are interested in expanding government, which then feeds into suspicions that somehow health care is another big government project that we can't afford ... Had we not been in the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, I would have led with health-care reform, made the case, and potentially we might have had it done by now. But I disagree with this idea that because of the financial crisis, somehow we can afford to put this off. In some ways, I think it's just made...
...there is discomfort in her voice too. Even though the Robertses represent one of the great forces working to bring the country's housing market back to health - nearly a third of home sales are now to first-time buyers, thanks to a federal tax credit and a glut of foreclosed and other cheap properties - they are constantly being reminded of how sick the rest of the system still is. The couple rattle off houses in their new neighborhood that are for sale by desperate, underwater owners. Through the Robertses' kitchen window, they can see tall weeds in the empty...
...long as we're talking about ham-handed measures, we might also want to consider the most ham-handed pay regulation of all - progressive income taxes. It cannot be entirely coincidental that the great explosion in executive and Wall Street pay began about the same time that Washington was slashing taxes on the highest earners. The top federal marginal rate plummeted from 70% in 1980 to 28% in 1988. (It's now 35%.) Some CEOs who are critical of the compensation status quo but who don't want government telling them how to pay people point to taxes...
...hold my nose and stop those firms from failing.' BEN BERNANKE, U.S. Federal Reserve chairman, citing fears of a "second Great Depression" to explain why he used taxpayer money to bail out firms like AIG last fall...