A Vote Against Rashness

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Author(s) George F. Will
Source The Washington Post
Date October 1, 2008
URL http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002320.html
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Quotes-start.png "Voting against the bill -- against putting taxpayers' money at risk in order to clean up a mess that some people got rich by making -- was easy, but not necessarily wrong. The $700 billion figure exaggerated the plan's probable cost but accurately measured something worse -- the enormous enlargement of government's power." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues against the position United States should bail out the banking industry on the topic Economic crisis of 2008.