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No matter how many editorials and opinions appear in The Columbian, Clark County governance will not change. It’s what the voters want.
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There are only two ways to reduce government debt: reduce spending or raise revenues, i.e. taxes.
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Let’s not hold our collective breath until Olympia comes up with the money to allow more folks in Southwest Washington to pay income taxes to Oregon, and shop there to dodge Washington’s sales taxes — CRC, anyone?
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The so-called “wealth gap” is a result of capitalism working exactly the way it is supposed to.
Opinion
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Letter: Predictions for 2015 outlined
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The continual advances in automation and industrialization are causing entry-level and better-than-entry-level jobs to vanish at an ever-increasing rate.
Thanks to contemporary finance, it is quite possible for one to become wealthy without creating many (or any) jobs directly or indirectly — and it’s the best way.
Before there were firearms, no one was ever harmed by one and, if we ever rise far enough above barbarism, when there are no more firearms, no one will ever again be harmed by one.
More to follow next month — stay tuned.
Larry Rivette
Vancouver
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