by Mark Thoma, University of Oregon (Department of Economics)

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The Rights Man

Posted on May 16, 2008

A rerun: The Right's Man, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times, March 13, 2006: It's time for some straight talk about John McCain. He isn't a moderate. He's much less of a maverick than you'd think. And he isn't the straight talker he claims to be. Mr. McCain's reputation as a moderate may be based on his former opposition to the Bush tax cuts. In 2001 he declared, I cannot in good conscience support a tax cut in which so many of the benefits go to the most fortunate among us. But now at a time of huge budget deficits and an expensive war, when the case against tax cuts for t...

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budget , deficit , tax