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Many War Powers Scrapped by Truman

January 1, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

San Bernardino Sun, 1 January 1947 Surprise Action Cuts Taxes, Ends Curb on Strikes WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (AP) – President Truman sprang a major New Year’s eve surprise today by yielding many of the government’s war powers – an action which means a $1,500,000,000 tax cut and scrapping of the biggest strike control weapon. The … [Read more…]

Posted in: California Newspaper Archive, Politics, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: army, Farm Subsidies, foreign brides, foreign laborers, G.I.s, Immigration, Mexicans, Oak Ridge, proclamation, Strikes, Taxes, Treasury, Truman, War Powers

Before this gets lost – Trump’s Math

September 22, 2016 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A great comment left in an article on 538.com the other day. I copy it here so it won’t get lost, as I can’t locate it 48 hours later: Chris Raimondi Calling anything Trump puts out as a plan and then attempting to analyze it is doing a disservice to numbers without pointing out virtually … [Read more…]

Posted in: Thinking about Tagged: 2016 Election, Taxes, Trump

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