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Politics, News & Issues > US Economy Ten reasons why the US government's bailout plans are a mistake and how each will prove our undoing in the short or long term

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Calling it a "bailout" levels the intellectual playing field. Balance sheets? Illiquid assets? Emergency Economic Stabilization Act? Start throwing around the real words and the differential becomes great. The word "bailout" is the plastic side of the band aid. Underneath, the sticky stuff is even messier. You think you get it, but really, do you? So the government spent a bunch of money to help out some big companies. Sounds good. Where is that money coming from? Taxes aren't going upnow. But in the future, when taxes increase to finance the debt, what happens? Higher taxes plus stable sa...

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