Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/alexander/2011/07/21/a-sign-of-sanity-amid-the-budget-banter/ Alexander's Essay – July 21, 2011 A Sign of Sanity Amid the Budget Banter Prospects Good for BBA "I wish it were possible to obtain a single amendment to our Constitution ... taking from the federal government their power of borrowing." --Thomas Jefferson (Letter of November 26th, 1798) Memo to Demos: Time's Up Over the din of the rancorous budget bull this week, the latest chapter in a debate, which has been raging ad nauseam infinitum for two years, you might have missed a small news summary about a comprehensive survey of small business owners and managers. Would you be shocked to learn that the vast majority of them are v...

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Read this on the Web at http://patriotpost.us/edition/2011/07/20/chronicle/ Chronicle · July 20, 2011 The Foundation "An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." --John Marshall Editorial Exegesis Hint: The answer isn't higher taxes "[On Friday] the previously press conference-averse president had his third news conference in two weeks to once again make his pitch for a 'big package' to close the federal deficit, to which he has already managed to add $4 trillion. His solution remains what it has always been -- taxes. But then you knew that. Or did you? 'You have 80 percent of the American people who s...