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• Levy family's grief endures, despite break in case

  Sun Feb 22, 2009
  • If I should indeed care for all of them equally--and I do--why are they not all reported equally? Why does this missing person warrant special attention?

• Levy family's grief endures, despite break in case

  Sun Feb 22, 2009
  • Not to belittle anyone's pain, but why should I care about this case more than the 1000s of other missing children in the US?

• Strip search of woman by Sheriff's Deputies called outrageous

  Fri Feb 1, 2008
  • Anybody heard of an update on this case?

• Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts

  Sun Sep 7, 2008
  • I'm sorry, I can't see the relevance of a book about child-rearing. I'm just saying that it only seems fair that those who benefit the most from a community should contribute the most back.

• Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts

  Sun Sep 7, 2008
  • I assume you mean 70% of the non-military budget, which is about half the total budget.

• Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts

  Sun Sep 7, 2008
  • Like him or not, Obama really is smart. You might get in to Harvard Law on your connections, if they are really, really good. But to make editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review would take overcoming the resentment of your fellow students who won't like at all that you got in on your connections.

• Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts

  Sun Sep 7, 2008
  • When government, through taxes "takes" some of that money and "puts it back in the system" no new wealth is created I'd like to point out that this statement is false, and in some really definite ways.

• Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts

  Sun Sep 7, 2008
  • True--social costs and benefits are hard to quantify. But we quantify the hard-to-quantify all the time. For example insurance companies put definite dollar values on loss of limb, loss of kidney function, etc. "Because it's hard" seems a lousy reason not to act.

• Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts

  Sun Sep 7, 2008
  • Assuming you mean the Fair Tax as proposed in the Fair Tax Act, I could get behind it with some modifications. For instance, to be a fair burden (as opposed to equal in absolute dollar terms), the tax rate should be progressive. So the rate ona $1 mil home is say 45%, v. 23% for 100,000 home.

• Obama: Recession could delay rescinding tax cuts

  Sun Sep 7, 2008
  • Except for Dave, no-one seems to care whether Obama's new course is a good one. It seems to me that we should raise taxes and cut spending. But then, I get my phone cut off when I don't pay the bill.