Free Rise » The Election http://www.ericmeyerson.com/wp Marketing, politics, economics, family, and the pervasiveness of all Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:21:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 A chart that our political candidates need to explain http://www.ericmeyerson.com/wp/2008/09/a-chart-that-our-political-candidates-need-to-explain/ http://www.ericmeyerson.com/wp/2008/09/a-chart-that-our-political-candidates-need-to-explain/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:38:06 +0000 Eric http://www.ericmeyerson.com/wp/?p=33 For the first presidential debate, I’d like for the moderators to flash this chart on the screen.

Questions:

1. What does this chart mean?

2. What happened during the Clinton years that was different from the Reagan, Bush, and Bush years?

3. Every American citizen now owes about $30,000 for past federal spending. How will you reduce that?

4. Since 1980, the federal goverment has raised income taxes twice. What effect did those tax increases have on the economy?

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