By the way, the Costco board also includes at least two other prominent tub-thumpers for higher taxes William Gates Sr. and Charles Munger.

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Even with some of the thumpers that I have what marks them is that they are able to get on the road and travel 40 to 50 miles.

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So you can see how all the Washington chest thumpers on behalf of middle class families might want to start their ill-advised belt-tightening right here, by targeting the one stimulus measure most directly tied to jobs.

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