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<title><![CDATA[Tax and Spend? « benclaassenspeaks]]></title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:15:23 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Tax and Spend This is a favorite description of our US government from fiscal conservatives. More correctly, tax, borrow and spend—until a cry for deficit reduction occurs. Deficit reduction means to get a closer match between tax collections and spending so as to borrow less than last year. Political voices (hard to call them leaders)…]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Keeping Track of Entitlement Dollars–A Budget for Economic Growth « benclaassenspeaks]]></title>
<link>http://claassenblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/keeping-track-of-entitlement-dollars-a-budget-for-economic-growth/</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:10:11 EST</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Keeping Track of Entitlement Dollars Economic Growth and Productivity Imagine you are looking through the glass window of a clothes dryer and items are tumbling by. Instead of clothes you see dollars and goods and services. It appears that the dollars are chasing the goods and occasionally a dollar catches a good and it drops…]]></description>
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