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							<title><![CDATA[Washington Welcomes the Wealthiest]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new administration may be contributing to Washington&rsquo;s affluence, but big money is also coming from start-ups and newcomers from out of town. A 25-year-old recently walked into Mr. Shawn&rsquo;s car dealership and paid $340,000 in cash for an Aston Martin Vanquish. The customer...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Federal Policy Will Shift. Not All States Will Shift With It.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/20/upshot/federal-policy-will-shift-not-all-states-will-shift-with-it.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Bitter divisions about the proper role of government in the United States have always been with us. Within broad limits, our Constitution&rsquo;s response to this reality has been to empower states to adopt policies tailored to their own constituents&rsquo; beliefs and values. So in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Trump-Led Trip Back to the Gold-Plated '80s]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/business/a-donald-trump-led-trip-back-to-the-gold-plated-80s.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2016 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Rich Vote Republican? Maybe Not This Election]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/business/rich-vote-republican-not-this-election-maybe.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Take Back the House, Democrats. Please.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/opinion/campaign-stops/take-back-the-house-democrats-please.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[One Top Taxpayer Moved, and New Jersey Shuddered]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/business/one-top-taxpayer-moved-and-new-jersey-shuddered.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Our top-heavy economy has come to this: One man can move out of New Jersey and put the entire state budget at risk. Other states are facing similar situations as a greater share of income &mdash; and tax revenue &mdash; becomes concentrated in the hands of a few. Last month, during a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[For Obamacare to Work, Everyone Must Be In]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/business/for-obamacare-to-work-everyone-must-be-in.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Two beliefs continue to shape debate on Obamacare. First, pre-existing medical conditions shouldn&#194;&#146;t prevent people from obtaining affordable health insurance. And second, people who don&#194;&#146;t want health insurance shouldn&#194;&#146;t be forced by the government to purchase it.These may seem to be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Sweden Refutes ObamaCare Doomsaying]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/business/what-sweden-can-tell-us-about-obamacare.html?_r=0</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last month, for the 37th time, the House of Representatives voted to repeal Obamacare, with many Republicans saying that its call for greater government involvement in the health care system spells doom. Yet most other industrial countries have health care systems with far more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Talks, Republicans May Have to Just Say Yes]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/09/business/getting-to-yes-offers-clues-to-fiscal-talks.html?ref=todayspaper</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[IN their book, &ldquo;Getting to Yes,&rdquo; Roger Fisher and William Ury introduce what may be the most important concept in the theory of negotiations: the best alternative to a negotiated agreement, or Batna. Knowing your true Batna &mdash; and your adversary&rsquo;s &mdash; is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nation's Choices Needn't Be Painful]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/business/nations-choices-neednt-be-painful-economic-view.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[REFERRING to the host of painful economic choices the nation is said to confront, President Obama recently said, &ldquo;I won&rsquo;t pretend the path I&rsquo;m offering is quick or easy.&rdquo; The Romney-Ryan ticket has also repeatedly stressed that it won&rsquo;t duck the tough...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[In Maryland, Higher Taxes Chase Out High Earners]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new report says wealthy Maryland residents may be moving out due to recent tax hikes &ndash; a finding that is sure to escalate the battle over taxing the American rich.The study, by the anti-tax group Change Maryland, says that a net 31,000 residents left the state between 2007 and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Repairing Roads Can End Gridlock]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/business/road-repairs-can-end-political-gridlock-economic-view.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[DEMOCRATS and Republicans share less common ground than at any point in living memory, and they are especially divided about our still-ailing economy. When Democrats propose additional economic stimulus, Republicans call for more cuts in government spending and regulation. And even...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Flat-Tax Proposals Won't Be Adopted]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/business/flat-tax-doesnt-solve-inequality-problem.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[CLOSE watchers of presidential politics weren&rsquo;t surprised to see many of this year&rsquo;s Republican hopefuls proposing to replace the nation&rsquo;s progressive income tax with a flat tax. Such plans reliably surface every four years, and, just as reliably, sink without a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Payroll Tax Needs a Vacation]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/business/economy/26view.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[THE federal budget deficit is a distraction.It&rsquo;s important, yes, and must be addressed. But by a wide margin, it&rsquo;s not the nation&rsquo;s most pressing economic problem. That would be the widespread and persistent joblessness that has plagued the labor market since the Great...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rising Income Inequality Takes a Hidden Toll]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/business/03view.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[LIKE everyone else, government officials want to look good. That often leads them to enact policies that promote favorable movements in the indexes by which they are judged. But when those indexes are imperfect, bad choices often result. And that&rsquo;s nowhere more evident than in...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Price of Taxing the Rich]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Brad Williams, above, a former economic forecaster for California, warned that the state was overdependent on the rich.As Brad Williams walked the halls of the California state capitol in Sacramento on a recent afternoon, he spotted a small crowd of protesters battling state spending...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[We Can't Ignore Rising Inequality]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/17/business/17view.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PEOPLE often remember the past with exaggerated fondness. Sometimes, however, important aspects of life really were better in the old days.During the three decades after World War II, for example, incomes in the United States rose rapidly and at about the same rate &mdash; almost 3...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Spending Needed to Stop Downturn]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-07-20/spending-cuts-would-deepen-our-debt/?cid=bs:archive5</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The deficit hawks are killing us. No, wait! I'm a deficit hawk. So let me rephrase that: Some of the deficit hawks are killing us. Like other deficit hawks, I believe we need to start paying down the mountain of debt the federal government has been running up. But not now, not as we...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Carbon Offsets: A Small Price to Pay]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/business/31view.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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							<title><![CDATA[Should Congress Put a Cap on Executive Pay?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/business/economy/04view.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Robert Frank</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Wait to Repeal Tax Cuts for the Rich?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/07/business/07view.html?ref=business</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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