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  • Why Republicans Shouldn’t Get So Excited About Tax Cuts

    Why Republicans Shouldn’t Get So Excited About Tax Cuts0

    There is a lot of hyperbolic rhetoric flying around about the $1.5 trillion tax package Congressional Republicans delivered on this week. Democratic leaders decried the legislation, declaring it “the end of the world… Armageddon.” (I’m not joking, those are the actual words used by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who should probably consider retiring.) Republicans, meanwhile,

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  • Why Republicans Are Virtually Identical to Democrats on Spending

    Why Republicans Are Virtually Identical to Democrats on Spending0

    Republicans during the Reagan and Bush administrations had a pretty straightforward fiscal policy: increase federal spending dramatically and cut marginal income tax rates modestly, predicting the resulting economic growth would eventually balance the budget. Both administrations increased spending roughly 80-100 percent, depending upon where you draw the start and end lines, given the government’s fiscal

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  • Why Reparations Make No Sense

    Why Reparations Make No Sense14

    Among many tell-tale signs of the tectonic fissures dividing the nation, perhaps the most telling is the call by prominent Democrats and others for reparations. A recent proposal by California governor Gavin Newsom calling for reparation payments of a potential $223,200 per black resident pushes the matter once again to the fore. Reparations refers to

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  • Why Religion Should Stop Trying to Be ‘Relevant’

    Why Religion Should Stop Trying to Be ‘Relevant’0

    • January 21, 2016

    “Religion is redundant and irrelevant,” declared famed atheist Richard Dawkins in a debate three years ago. Dawkins’ opinion is shared by many others today, some of whom make up Intellectual Takeout’s Facebook audience. 😉 In an effort to combat the spread of this attitude, in addition to increased secularization and an aging membership, America’s Christian

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  • Why Raw Milk Dealers Are Now a Thing

    Why Raw Milk Dealers Are Now a Thing0

    On her podcast The Skinny Confidential, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick made a confession while speaking with actress Gwyneth Paltrow a few months ago. “I have a dealer,” she said. On her podcast The Skinny Confidential, Lauryn Evarts Bosstick made a confession while speaking with actress Gwyneth Paltrow a few months ago. “I have a dealer,” she

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  • Why Rationalism is Key to a Happy Marriage

    Why Rationalism is Key to a Happy Marriage1

    Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice famously begins by saying, “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” In the hundreds of pages which follow this statement, Austen depicts many marriages, some successful and some decidedly not. The successful ones –

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