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The Washington Post did a piece on Sunday discussing a potential fare increase for the Washington DC area Metro system. As part of that article they included a graphic comparing the costs of various subway systems across the country. The graphic fails on several key points. The presentation of the graphic is complicated because the […]
Robert Samuelson writes an opinion piece in the Washington Post each week. The latest was titled “The fat cats vs. the facts.” That was the print edition title. The digital edition was titled “Government is not beholden to the rich.” In it he seems to launch an attack on the elderly and on the poor […]
Back during the height of the recent recession we had the cash for clunkers where our government spent close to $3 billion dollars financing the trade in of so called “clunkers” for new cars in the hopes of providing a boost to the nation’s economy. The twofold strategy of the program was to give a […]