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Author Archives: Viveca Novak
Farm Bill Funds Distribution
Q: In the farm bill, how much money goes to direct subsidies for farmers, what percentage goes to higher income farmers and how much is allotted for feeding the poor? A: About $26 billion will be spent on direct payments to farmers over the next five years. We can't give …
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The Budget According to McCain: Part I
McCain’s big promise is that he can balance the budget while extending Bush’s tax cuts and adding a few of his own. He likes to leave the impression that this can be done painlessly, for example, by eliminating “wasteful” spending in the form of “earmarks” that lawmakers like to tuck into spending bills to finance home-state projects. We found that not only is this theory full of holes, it’s not even McCain’s actual plan. In this story we examine the spending-cut side of McCain’s budget program. In Part II, we’ll look at what McCain has said about taxes.
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DNC vs. McCain
Summary The Democratic National Committee has produced two TV ads against McCain, hoping to soften him up while the party figures out who its own presidential nominee will be. One ad shows selected portions of McCain’s comments that a 100-year U.S. presence in Iraq would be "fine with me." The …
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Tagged DNC, gasoline prices, Iraq, jobs, John McCain, Presidential Election 2008
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Winning Ugly in Wisconsin
Summary In a Wisconsin throwdown, incumbent Supreme Court Justice Louis Butler narrowly lost his reelection bid after being hit with a barrage of deceptive attack ads. We’ve written about some of them in recent weeks. Attack ads targeting the incumbent heavily outnumbered attacks aimed at the business-backed winner, Circuit …
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Tagged Court Watch, judicial ad, judicial election, Wisconsin Supreme Court
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