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Tax Collections Soar, Deficit Plummets; Reporters, Liberal Economists Hardest HitI've been meaning to link Bizzy Blog on this for a while. Old news by now, but worth reading if you haven't gotten to it. Hug a liberal economist. He needs it-- plus, he's probably all soft and squishy like a plush toy. * Collections — Up 11.3% for the year. Taylor failed to note the number ($385 billion) and the status (all-time record) of April’s collections. Thanks to those record collections, receipts in this fiscal year thus far are up by a lot more than the 9% I was using. It would be nice to think that the 11%-plus increase will hold for the rest of the year, but even 10% would be impressive. Indeed, it succeeded beyond all expectations. Bizz y Blog also takes an AP "reporter" to task for deliberately failing to report, or only reporting in the usually-unread tail-end of an article, the fact that April's collections were an all-time record, and the April surplus was second-best only to the still-getting-the-benefit-of-the-Clinton-tech-bubble April 2001 numbers. Ah, well. There are only two certainties in life: death and the "Republican tax." [W]e've got to accept we will always, as a country, have to pay a "tax" on having a Republican president in office, because the media, through relentlessly negative coverage of Republcian economies, will sabotage consumer confidence and thus reduce the actual strength of the economy (not just the perception thereof) a fraction of a percent or so. After the jump, a re-post, back from the days when I was funny. Back in 2004, when the GDP busted a nut with a huge 8% annualized growth rate (later revised down to a still-eyepopping 6%+), I felt awfully sorry for the Times' crank economist Paul Krugman. Since he wrote weekly about the imminent collapse of the US economy (and the nation's descent into a junta-led banana republic), and certainly would not lower himself to write about actual facts regarding strong economic growth, what could he write about? Even with the economy blazing, he was required to post two columns per week; how on earth could he fill that space while avoiding the embarrassment of an economy defying his decline-and-debacle predictions? So I proposed a list of columns Krugman could write about. I offer them yet again (some old references deleted, some new ones added), in the hopes that Krugman will avoid further shaming himself. These proposed titles have been carefully hand-crafted to provide Mr. Krugman with interesting, engaging topics to shriek hysterically about; but I've taken the greatest care to insure that not a one of them actually implicates Mr. Krugman's asserted expertise in economics. I am, as they say, a compassionate conservative. Proposed Column Titles for Paul Krugman Which Avoid Any Mention of Economics
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