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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... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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August 17, 2026 • 04:40 PM
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GOP Governors’ Alternative to Obama’s Tax Hikes
By Ashton Ellis
Thursday, January 31 2013
With thirty governorships in Republican hands, some GOP executives are trying to swap their states’ income tax for a broad-based sales tax.  Success could set up an alternative to the income-centric debate in Washington, D.C.  Currently, seven states – Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming – have no personal income tax.  Two states, Tennessee and New Hampshire, tax only dividend and interest income.  More states are looking to join them.    Since January, GOP governors in Virginia, Louisiana, Nebraska and Kansas…
 
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"Writing in the Wall Street Journal last week, former Fidelity Investments head Robert Pozen wrote what he always has, and that countless budget and Social Security scolds have written before him. According to Pozen and a Rose Bowl-sized collection of commentators who've come before and who've yet to come, a combination of benefit cuts and 'revenue measures' (yes, tax increases on the richest…[more]
  
 
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Should there be a full-scale investigation of the Alaska Senate race in which a candidate with virtually the same name as the incumbent was recruited into the race to induce voter confusion.