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Advocates and economists say any support for such a program reflects how some lessons of the housing crisis were not learned.

Reasonable people can differ about how much to cover Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher, but the last time I spoke to him, he was speaking cryptically about a “new project” he would launch at the end of March. The project is now online: IRSVote.com.
It’s sort of self-explanatory, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t confusing.

What was bad news for Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, Tim Geithner and now Hilda Solis might be good news for the federal government.
Their recent tax woes — by which we mean their getting caught not paying their (or their spouses’) taxes — mean that the IRS is probably right about (or even underestimating?) the extent [...]

An anecdote about a 2000 visit to a casino, recounted in a recent article in The New York Times that examined Sen. John McCain’s ties to the gambling industry, may have inadvertently created an ethics problem for the GOP presidential nominee. From The Times: