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Myth – Government can’t create jobs
ecthompsonmd May 9, 2012

I think it is funny and sad that conservatives will continue to believe nonsense even when they know it is … well, nonsense. One of their favorite pieces of circular logic is that the government simply can’t create jobs. All jobs (real jobs) are created by the private sector. Government jobs aren’t real because the money comes from taxes, which comes from us, the taxpayer. See? Yeah, I don’t understand it either. It seems to me that if you are working for the IRS or the State Department, you have a job. You are spending your salary and you are contributing

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Daschle is out
ecthompsonmd February 3, 2009

Is there a rule in Washington that you don’t have to pay taxes? I just don’t understand. If I’m an hour late on taxes, I get a letter from the IRS. On my corporate taxes the IRS always seems to want some form to be filled out. If it isn’t, angry letters follow. So how is it that Tom Daschle, who I believe is a good guy and would have done a great job, and Tim Geithner didn’t pay large sums of money? I think that Daschle would have been easily confirmed if there wasn’t already a tax problem with Geithner

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Obama Answers the "Gas-Tax" Holiday
ecthompsonmd April 30, 2008

My father was fond of asking me if everyone was jumping off a bridge, would I jump. The right answer was always no. Senator John McCain, in a very weak economic speech, offered voters a gas -tax holiday. In my opinion, this was a terrible idea. First of all, it would be difficult for the IRS to enforce a tax that is turned on then turned off. Secondly, it isn’t like gas prices would drop immediately although the public would expect gas prices to drop any day. Many Americans would start driving more, which would increase demand and therefore increase prices.

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