Letters to the Editor
Jerry Policoff
Published Letters: 3 Editor's Choice: 1
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the journalists in the Plame leak case were not easy to defend...
[Read the article: Another federal leak case, but this one isn't like Plame]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You are so right about that Mr. Manjoo. That is why your unseemly defense of Judith Miller was so indefensible. Have you forgotten already?
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Kerry did not stop collecting donations and did not qualify for matching funds
[Read the article: The virtual John Kerry]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Michael Scherer is incorrect when he states that Kerry stopped soliciting donations so he could qualify for federal matching funds during the 2004 campaign. Kerry followed Howard Dean's example and decided not stop accepting donations, thereby foregoing federal matching funds. Here is a link that backs this up:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/11/14/politics/main583796.shtml
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This post is disingenuous
[Read the article: Obama is wrong about the gas tax]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Even if every word of this article is true it is dishonest and disingenuous. The Federal tax Hillary Clinton proposes to give us a holiday from is one that is imposed on the oil companies at the refinery. In other words Hillary is proposing giving the oil companies a tax break and is making an assumption that they will pass most or all of it on to consumers. That is a huge assumption, and not one that most economists believe is warranted.
The Indiana gas tax was a sales tax imposed on consumers at the pump. Thus any oil company wanting to profit from it would have had to raise the wholesale price specifically in Illinois, a move that would have been totally transparent as a blatant attempt to price gouge.
Mr. Frost is trying to compare apples and oranges. The fact that oil companies did not take advantage of a sales tax holiday in Illinois by regionally raising the wholesale price of gas in no way suggests that they would pass a tax reduction imposed at the refinery on to consumers.
It is this kind of shady logic that makes people like me distrust Hillary Clinton.