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1.Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream by: Ross Douthat, Reihan Salam June 24, 2008
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This book has all the depth of a junior high civics paper. The authors are brimming with schoolboy enthusiasm, yet it's clear that they have no understanding of the most elementary economics. For instance, they propose that the federal government should give wage subsidies to those hard working people in low end jobs, therefore helping them out of poverty, yet they never consider what this effect would have on prices, which would only inflate, leaving the purchasing power of these workers the same. And they even justify the plan by saying that it "follows the wise libertarian maxim that the only the only thing government can be counted on is to write checks." Apparently they didn't realize that libertarians meant that as a criticism of government. Indeed, they keep repeating that their plans ... Read More

2.Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream by: Ross and Salam, Reihan Douthat 2008
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This book has all the depth of a junior high civics paper. The authors are brimming with schoolboy enthusiasm, yet it's clear that they have no understanding of the most elementary economics. For instance, they propose that the federal government should give wage subsidies to those hard working people in low end jobs, therefore helping them out of poverty, yet they never consider what this effect would have on prices, which would only inflate, leaving the purchasing power of these workers the same. And they even justify the plan by saying that it "follows the wise libertarian maxim that the only the only thing government can be counted on is to write checks." Apparently they didn't realize that libertarians meant that as a criticism of government. Indeed, they keep repeating that their plans ... Read More

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