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...Trillion-Dollar Question Michael Grunwald wrote in "How to Spend a Trillion Dollars" [Jan. 26] that if the government gives money away to stimulate the economy, it should target "people who can't afford to save it ... that's why Obama is pushing a permanent $500-per-person credit on payroll taxes for every worker making less than $200,000 a year." Was that sarcasm? Frank Humphreys, DUBLIN...
...paragraph of anything I have ever read [Jan. 26]. His analyses of the problems, the opportunities, the pitfalls and the inevitable lining up at the feeding trough are all spot-on. I especially liked the admonition to give the money to the people who can't afford to save it. That money will go straight to the free market - even though my wife and I will most likely save anything we get. Paul Bliss, SAN DIEGO...
...make one thing better, but then it's very hard to resist the temptation to spruce up the whole vocal, give everything a little nip-tuck." Like plastic surgery, he adds, more people have had it than you think. "Let's just say I've had Auto-Tune save vocals on everything from Britney Spears to Bollywood cast albums. And every singer now presumes that you'll just run their voice through...
...Senate's $70 billion patch to the alternative minimum tax is "neither timely nor targeted" and "makes no sense as economic stimulus." But the biggest component--a $145 billion payroll-tax cut--is both good stimulus, because it targets low- and moderate-income earners (who are less likely to save it), and good policy, because it aims to start rebuilding the middle class and help ordinary families who have been left behind during eight years of trickle-down tax policy...
...vaguely liberal and exotic. Jobs in biomedical research and sex education are real jobs. Granted, some spending proposals would work faster and better than others. But it's telling that House minority leader John Boehner ridicules programs to weatherize low-income homes--which would create jobs in a hurry, save poor people money in the long term and reduce the energy waste that increases carbon emissions and empowers foreign thugs. What's the argument in favor of heating and air-conditioning the outdoors...