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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity...

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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Obama: We Can Afford Failed $814 Billion “Stimulus,” But Not $700 Billion Tax Relief?
By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, September 16 2010
“Nobody spends somebody else’s money as wisely as he spends his own.” 
~Milton Friedman What the Obama Administration lacks in logic, it surfeits in raw chutzpah.  According to Obama, America just can’t afford $700 billion in additional tax relief.  After all, flipping Friedman’s wisdom on its head, the federal government allegedly spends that money more wisely than the people and small businesses that actually earned it.  Meanwhile, the White House considers perfectly affordable a failed $800 billion “stimulus,” another new…
 
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Although Canada ultimately has much more to lose than the U.S. and does play fast and loose on some trade issues, given all other current concerns, is this the time to escalate a tariff war?