Thursday, February 12, 2009

Taxes

Steve Benen notes that Obama's stimulus contains the largest tax cut ever, that it fulfills the campaign promise Obama made and that it's going to be better for average folks than Bush's cuts. It really is unusual to see a president actually delivering on his promises--Bush, of course, flouted most of what he said in 2000 and didn't promise anything in 2004 except not to flip-flop, windsurf, or let gay dudes get married. One out of three ain't bad.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.