American - Journalist | 1958 -
I'm all for lifting the payroll-tax cap, if only to make payroll taxes a little less regressive.
Timothy Noah
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With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.
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Rule of thumb: When Democrats lose, they blame the candidate. When Republicans lose, they blame the opposition.
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Is class snobbery a social reality in the United States? Absolutely, and the kind that's codified by meritocracy is probably more toxic than the old-fashioned kind based on bloodlines.
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The problem with wanting the tax code to be 'simpler, fairer,' and 'pro-growth' is that it's impossible to achieve all three at the same time.
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The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.
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The Sudan bombing is a blot on the Clinton presidency, and a blot it ought to remain.
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There's a growing consensus that the best way to defeat communism in Cuba is to get its citizens hooked on American goods.
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Without the three-fifths rule, there wouldn't have been a Constitution of the United States - not one that governed the American South, at any rate - because the South wouldn't have ratified it.
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In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to meet real-world needs is to leak it.
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One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the job over to the United Nations.
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If the 1992 and 2000 elections were any guide, third-party candidates are death on the mainstream parties with which they're most naturally aligned.
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