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Lessons from Carolina: Paying People to Not Work is Losing Policy, Tax Cuts and Reforms do Work In 2013, North Carolina figured out paying people to not work is a losing policy.
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Yet moments ago, the Financial Times reported Greece to Delay IMF Repayment as Tsipras Faces Backlash . Greece has notified the International Monetary Fund that it will not make a scheduled €300m loan repayment on Friday after opposition to a bailout compromise with creditors erupted inside the governing party.
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Illinois Politicians’ Brazen #1 Priority: Paying Themselves It’s no secret that politicians in general are a self-serving lot, primarily concerned about doing whatever it takes to get reelected. Taxpayers be damned in the process. As usual, Illinois politicians lead the way in brazen graft on such manners as excerpts from Illinoisans Suffer, Politicians Get Paid by Jeffrey Schwab, attorney for the Illinois Policy Institute shows
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