The President's Excess Income and Ours
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Mona Charen has a column up at Yahoo! News:

Speaking for himself on July 11, the president offered that he had "hundreds of thousands of dollars that I don't need."

The president is of course welcome to donate as much of his extra money as he likes to the federal treasury. He knows Timothy Geithner personally and can probably get a guarantee that his check will be cashed without delay. And since the president is so ready to impute unpleasant motives (like greed) to those who oppose tax increases, perhaps we should impute some sort of moral failing to him for not having thus far contributed his spare change to the government.

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John Steele Gordon on the Debt
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John Steele Gordon has a useful op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on the national debt: "Total debt is now 97.2% of GDP and climbing rapidly."

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The President's Excess Income and Ours
futureofcapitalism.com

Mona Charen has a column up at Yahoo! News:

Speaking for himself on July 11, the president offered that he had "hundreds of thousands of dollars that I don't need."

The president is of course welcome to donate as much of his extra money as he likes to the federal treasury. He knows Timothy Geithner personally and can probably get a guarantee that his check will be cashed without delay. And since the president is so ready to impute unpleasant motives (like greed) to those who oppose tax increases, perhaps we should impute some sort of moral failing to him for not having thus far contributed his spare change to the government.

Read More...

John Steele Gordon on the Debt
futureofcapitalism.com

John Steele Gordon has a useful op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on the national debt: "Total debt is now 97.2% of GDP and climbing rapidly."

Read More...