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							<title><![CDATA[The Sequester's Cuts Are Bad Policy]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2013/02/15/five-reasons-why-the-sequesters-automatic-spending-cuts-are-bad-policy/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Harris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In two weeks, about $1 trillion in automatic spending cuts will begin to kick in, a testament to the inability of policymakers to reach a grand fiscal bargain. Allowing these cuts to happen would be terrible policy.Here's the background: In August 2011, Congress passed the Budget Control...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Government and Short Run Growth]]></title>
							<link>http://taxvox.taxpolicycenter.org/2013/01/31/the-government-and-short-run-economic-growth/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ben Harris</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Economic growth estimates released yesterday were not good news: the economy contracted in the fourth quarter for the first time since 2009, albeit by just 0.1 percent. Commentators have mostly attributed the mild contraction to a steep drop in federal defense spending and reduced...]]></description>
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