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Senator Joseph R. Biden, trying his best not to become the next vice president of the United States, recently called paying taxes “patriotic.” Next Tuesday, Massachusetts voters will go to the polls to decide his fate—and the fate of patriotism itself. Ballot Question 1 asks Bay Staters simply: Should the commonwealth eliminate its income tax...
When out-of-control federal spending runs smack into sluggish tax revenues, red ink splashes all over Washington. In September, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the deficit this year would be $407 billion, a sum that reflected the $168 billion economic stimulus package approved by President Bush in February and the estimated $188billion spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2008. Add to that the $700 billion financial bailout package passed in October, plus another economic stimulus package likely to take shape in the coming months that could cost as much as $175 billion...
...Neither candidate has submitted themselves to tough questioning with follow-up by the national press corps, so we don't really know their ideas or how good they are. We don't know if McCain is really going to tax us for health care, because nobody's been able to ask him. So the press corps could jump on him, and it would jump-start his campaign...
McCain campaign advisor Gail R. Wilensky presented her candidate’s proposal to provide tax credits of $5,000 per family or $2,500 for an individual, as well as a “Guaranteed Access Plan” for those people who cannot receive coverage due to conditions such as chronic illnesses...
...between the presidential candidates. Both the questions and the answers were “more intellectual” than those in the three fall presidential debates, Rahman said. For example, Hoffman quoted Hamlet, saying, “Conscience does make cowards of us all,” while discussing tax policy. Each debater was given two minutes to answer questions that ranged from whether proceedings in the Supreme Court should be broadcast on C-SPAN to the amount and type of experience necessary for a candidate to be qualified for the presidency. Debaters stayed within time limits without...