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Skepticism on McCain Plan to Balance Budget by 2013
http://www.nytimes.com/ 2008/ 07/ 08/ us/ politics/ 08budget.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=r...
John McCain said he would hold spending growth to 2.4 percent a year, but that is a tall order, as federal spending has been growing an average of more than 6 percent a year in the last five years.
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John McCain: The Budget Policy of an Underpants Gnome!
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/07/john-mccain-the.htmlCr--! Robert Pear of the New York Times called, looking for asoundbite on McCain's budget policy. I blathered on, while the perfect soundbite was waiting in my email inbox, unread. It was: Underpants Gnomes. You all remember the plan of the Underpants
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John McCain Gets His Budget Ideas From South Park. Cool!
http://time-blog.com/curious_capitalist/2008/07/john_mccain_...Mark Thoma has a lengthy and meaty roundup of various appalled reactions to John McCain's half-baked pledge to balance the budget by 2013. He points out that, in April: Sen. McCain has backed off his earlier promise to eliminate the budget deficit by the
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McCain and Social Security
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/07/mccain_and_soci.phpHe has no plan, anymore, that he's willing to publicly admit to. In the past, he called his plan "privatization," and it was the same plan as the incredibly unpopular Bush proposal which would dramatically reduce benefits and divert payroll
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No clue and no plan
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/16127.htmlYesterdays big news was John McCains plan to eliminate a $410 billion deficit in just four years. He didnt get around to explaining how, exactly, he planned to do this, but the McCain campaign is very excited about the vague generalities it presented
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The Economic Policy of John McCain
http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2008/07/0...There's a lot of talk in the blogosphere about John McCain's pledge to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term in office. The NYT has two articles, by Michael Cooper and Robert Pear, about whether such a thing is possible. Brad DeLong is
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Republican Economists Who Aren't Supporting McCain's Economic Plan
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/07/republican-econ.htmlFelix Salmon writes: The Economic Policy of John McCain: The more substantive news, in my view, is the list of 300 economists who claim to "enthusiastically support John McCain's economic plan". Would most of them sign their name to the
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One in 300, or the Only one in Government?
http://angrybear.blogspot.com/2008/07/one-in-300-or-only-one...John McCain's 300 economists who support his Jobs for America Plan (via Tyler Cowen, non-sociopath, who provides an appropriate context for the list) includes one person, an Ike Brannon, whose affiliation is listed as "Department of the
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Barely A Policy
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/07...Felix Salmon analyzes McCain's promise to balance the budget: Pledging to balance the budget in one term is easy and cost-free: it's the kind of promise which is so improbable that no one's going to hold you to it when you fail to meet your goal,
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Barely A Policy
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/07...Felix Salmon analyzes McCain's promise to balance the budget: Pledging to balance the budget in one term is easy and cost-free: it's the kind of promise which is so improbable that no one's going to hold you to it when you fail to meet your goal,
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Candidate Spending Plans Still Do Not Add Up
http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=3492While the specifics may vary from election to election and party to party, there is one thing which remains constantthe spending plans of the candidates do not add up. Politicians will promise more than expected tax revenues will pay for and predictions
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Skepticism
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/07/skep...Skepticism 08 Jul 2008 07:04 am Robert Pear runs down the evidence that there's no way on earth John McCain is going to balance the budget by 2013 consistent with the priorities he's outlined. To put a hard number on it, according to the CBO if we extend
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NYT Plays Fact-Checker
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/07/8930_ny...And does it well. Robert Pear's article absolutely shreds John McCain's plan to balance the budget with tax cuts and...
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Candidates Diverge
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/07/candid...by hilzoy This is a very puzzling article. Here's the lede: "Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are both proposing dramatic changes to Social Security, taking on the financially fragile "third rail of American politics" that Congress and
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McCain's Credit Card Budget
http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/07/mccains_credit.phpThe reviews are in... Experts agree that McCain's budget balancing rhetoric is just wishful thinking: The package of spending and tax cuts proposed by Senator John McCain is unlikely to achieve his goal of balancing the federal budget by 2013, economists
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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/mccain-accountability...
McCain Accountability Sighting! by dday The New York Times went ahead and, in contravention of all journalistic conventions, particularly with respect to Republicans, actually tried to analyze John McCain's budget proposal - and ended up taking a side!
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McCain Accountability Sighting!
http://d-day.blogspot.com/2008/07/mccain-accountability-sigh...The New York Times went ahead and, in contravention of all journalistic conventions, particularly with respect to Republicans, actually tried to analyze John McCain's budget proposal - and ended up taking a side! The package of spending and tax cuts
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Obama Camp Questions McCain's Budget
http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics/2008/07/obama_camp_...Permalink | Email Author After some less-than-flattering news articles and editorials today regarding McCain's proposed budget balancing, the Obama campaign jumped in as well. On a conference call with reporters, House Budget Committee Chairman John