Election Day Reading - Taxes, Great Depression, and Policy

Election Day Reading – Taxes, Great Depression, and Policy

Here are some of the best articles of the day:

Lawrence Kudlow is stunned by a poll showing voters think Obama is the real taxpayer. He also exposes an absurd notion that tax cuts caused the current recession (after 5 years of growth) and that Bush didn’t cut taxes on the middle class.
Lee Ohanian writes, Don’t Raise the Capital Gains Tax and discusses the problem with “soaking the rich”
Andrew Wilson has 5 Myths about the Great Depression – namely that Hoover was a hands-off president (rather than a tax raising, trade restricting interventionist) and that government spending ended the Depression (when in fact it extended it).
Victor Reinhart points out the gamble with the Federal Reserves new policy model.
Fred Barnes thinks that the election will result in a major move leftward on public policy