By T. R. Reid Special To The Washington Post Republican leaders have proposed to cut the corporate income-tax rate to 20 percent, in a tax plan that adds $1.7 trillion to the deficit over the next decade. How should Democrats respond? They should propose to cut the corporate tax rate to zero — in a […]
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Iranian threats may spur Saudi-Israeli alliance
The Iranian-sponsored November 4 ballistic missile attack on Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, continues to roil the Middle East — and it should. Recently I wrote that missile attack signaled an escalation in the simmering regional war between Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Iran’s Shia Islamic revolutionary regime. Their proxy war in Yemen would become more […]
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Politics has become a cult for many Protestants
When Jim Zeigler, the state auditor of Alabama, invoked the Bible to defend Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore against allegations that he had inappropriate contact with underage girls while single and in his 30s (which Moore has sort of denied), it signaled perhaps the final stage in the corruption of American evangelicalism. Zeigler claimed there […]
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Republican tax plan an intergenerational rip-off
It is a strange time to be considering a major tax cut. The economy is healthy and in no need of fiscal stimulus. The national debt is 77 percent of gross domestic product, the highest since the aftermath of World War II, and growing. Yet Congressional Republicans hope to pass a $1.7 trillion tax overhaul […]
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End for mortgage interest tax deduction?
WASHINGTON — If you want to understand why the tax code is so hard to overhaul, consider the case of the mortgage interest deduction. The issue is so sensitive that the House and Senate are dealing with it in completely opposite ways. To its many defenders and beneficiaries, the mortgage interest deduction symbolizes and subsidizes […]
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There is no Trumpism without Trump
Ed Gillespie went from potential vindicator of Trumpism to “cuckservative” in the space of a couple of hours. The Virginia Republican, campaigning in a treacherous political environment defined by an unpopular president of his own party, ran the only race he reasonably could. He distanced himself from Donald Trump personally, hoping to lessen his losses […]
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Moving forward together as Lewiston and Auburn
We had hoped that headline would feature a hyphen instead of the conjunction “and” — a marker of Tuesday’s election results that determined Lewiston and Auburn would remain separate from each other. That small word “and” is significant, and its meaning is something that all of us, as citizens of our two cities, must think […]
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The very real cases against Hillary Clinton
How do they do it? I am not the first to compare the Clintons to Harry Houdini, the great magician and escape artist, but Bill and Hillary make him look like a rank amateur. No law seems to touch them. No regulation seems to control them. No prosecutor wants to take the risk of holding […]
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Where have all the ratifiers gone?
When the professor said the middle class comprised 90 percent of Americans, I told myself — I was too shy to challenge a professor out loud — he made it sound like we were all the same, without much room to be individuals. Fifty years later, his 90 percent has dwindled, and instead of a […]
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Military must help to deny guns to domestic abusers
The following editorial appears on Bloomberg View: America’s extraordinary gun violence is enabled by a lack of both laws and responsibility. In a small but significant way, bipartisan legislation proposed by Sens. Jeff Flake and Martin Heinrich seeks to address both failings. A record of domestic violence is a frequent denominator in cases of gun […]