There was a corrupt tax system up there and we had a couple of lawmakers end up in jail because of the tax system that was adopted so we cleaned it up and said we wanted a fair and equitable share of the resources that we own, and the people will share in those resource revenues that are derived.

dajafi wrote:

There was a corrupt tax system up there and we had a couple of lawmakers end up in jail because of the tax system that was adopted so we cleaned it up and said we wanted a fair and equitable share of the resources that we own, and the people will share in those resource revenues that are derived.

CrashburnAlley wrote:

dajafi wrote:

There was a corrupt tax system up there and we had a couple of lawmakers end up in jail because of the tax system that was adopted so we cleaned it up and said we wanted a fair and equitable share of the resources that we own, and the people will share in those resource revenues that are derived.

LOLSOCIALISM

dajafi wrote:

CrashburnAlley wrote:

dajafi wrote:

There was a corrupt tax system up there and we had a couple of lawmakers end up in jail because of the tax system that was adopted so we cleaned it up and said we wanted a fair and equitable share of the resources that we own, and the people will share in those resource revenues that are derived.

LOLSOCIALISM

Kinda what I was getting at on the last page there, Crash.

Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley, and an author of a widely cited study on the dangers of the current deficits, describes the situation like so: “Bush behaved incredibly irresponsibly for eight years. On the one hand, it might seem unfair for people to blame Obama for not fixing it. On the other hand, he’s not fixing it.”

Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and a key figure in the health debate, has publicly lectured Elmendorf, saying he has a moral duty to be "creative" and deliver the favorable budget estimates "we have to have" to win broad support.

Elmendorf said the CBO would never "adjust our views to make people happy." When a health plan finally emerges, he said, his office will offer an objective analysis, "without regard to the political consequences."

"CBO is not going to make or break health-care reform," Elmendorf said in an interview. "Whether health-care reform happens depends on the judgment of members of Congress. We'll provide information that helps them make that judgment. But the decisions are theirs."

Polls show New York Gov. David Paterson (D) as one of the least popular governors in the nation and the leadership revolt in the state Senate isn't helping improve his stature. The governor has been "largely relegated to the sidelines" in the dispute, reports the New York Times.

However, Paterson made "one of the more unusual pleas for sanity" when he asked lawmakers to "think of the lobbyists" in urging their return to the Senate. He went on to explain that they had worked hard "to persuade legislative leaders and legislators of issues."

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kruker wrote:Mankiw pointed this out in his blog, from the Washington Post:

Here is just one: The bill would give the federal government power over local building codes. It requires that by 2012 codes must require that new buildings be 30 percent more efficient than they would have been under current regulations. By 2016, that figure rises to 50 percent, with increases scheduled for years after that. With those targets in mind, the bill expects organizations that develop model codes for states and localities to fill in the details, creating a national code. If they don't, the bill commands the Energy Department to draft a national code itself.


States, meanwhile, would have to adopt the national code or one that achieves the same efficiency targets. Those that refuse will see their codes overwritten automatically, and they will be docked federal funds and carbon "allowances" -- valuable securities created elsewhere in the bill that give the holder the right to pollute and can be sold.The Energy Department also could enforce its code itself. Among other things, the policy would demonstrate the new leverage of allocation of allowances as a sort of carbon currency -- leverage this bill would be giving to Congress to direct state behavior.

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Is the best way to achieve that, though, to federalize what has long been a matter of local concern? And if the point of cap-and-trade is to change market incentives, why does Congress, and not the market, need to dictate these changes? Those are a few questions that emerge when you begin to read through the 900 pages.

Get the cap and trade right and the federales won't have to play the role of overbearing parent.

It's as if they are going to tell us what the penalties are for staying out late, but just in case, they are going to chaperon the date anyway.

drsmooth wrote:

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it's over, son. move on.

Democrats and Republicans are slightly more likely to root for the Yankees than the Mets or Phillies than Independents, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today showing 44% of state voters interested in baseball say the New York Yankees are their favorite baseball team. Democrats and Republicans are essentially the same when it comes to picking a baseball team.

21% of New Jersey voters say the New York Mets are their favorite team, and 20% say it is the Philadelphia Phillies.

Among Democrats: Yankees 46%, Phillies 21%, Mets 20%.
Among Republicans, Yankees 44%, Phillies 21%, Mets 20%
Among Independents: Yankees 41%, Mets 22%, Phillies 20%

"Dress New Jersey baseball fans - men and women, young and old - in Yankee pinstripes. There are just about as many Yankee fans as there are Phillies and Mets backers combined. Only in the Philadelphia suburbs do the Phillies dominate," said Clay Richards, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.

Statewide, 5% of New Jersey voters like the Boston Red Sox; that number is at 4% among Democrats and Republicans, and 7% among Independents. The Red Sox also do better among voters between the ages of 18-34, and among voters who live in Essex and Hudson counties.

After voting to shrink itself, the Maine House has now endorsed a plan to replace itself, and the State Senate, with a so-called unicameral Legislature that would merge both chambers into one body. That proposed constitutional amendment would create one chamber that would have 151 members - the same number that the House currently contains - and reduce the size of the Legislture by 35 members. Supporters say it's time for a change.

kruker wrote:Maine moving to a unicameral legislature

After voting to shrink itself, the Maine House has now endorsed a plan to replace itself, and the State Senate, with a so-called unicameral Legislature that would merge both chambers into one body. That proposed constitutional amendment would create one chamber that would have 151 members - the same number that the House currently contains - and reduce the size of the Legislture by 35 members. Supporters say it's time for a change.