GAO: Voter ID laws suppress voting, not fraud

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It's never even occurred to me to set foot inside of a comic book shop.

And regarding a worker's paradise - as a matter of fact, from the end of WWII and before the nightmare of trickle down economics, America might as well have been a worker's paradise. A working guy like my dad was able to buy a house with the wages he made, my mom was able to stay at home to raise me, and we enjoyed a happy, middle class existence. If that wasn't a worker's paradise, I have no idea what is.

Government spending collapsed from 41 percent of GDP in 1945 to 24 percent in 1946 to less than 15 percent by 1947. And there was no ?new? New Deal. This was by far the biggest cut in government spending in U.S. history. Tax rates were cut and wartime price controls were lifted. There was a very short, eight-month recession, but then the private economy surged. Personal consumption grew by 6.2 percent in 1945 and 12.4 percent in 1946 even as government spending crashed. At the same time, private investment spending grew by 28.6 percent and 139.6 percent.

The less the feds spent, the more people spent and invested. Keynesianism was turned on its head. Free markets were vindicated.

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Thank you for advocating the wholesale slashing of taxes, regulations, and government spending back to late-'40s levels. Yes, that would allow an explosion of innovation and a growth in prosperity such as can hardly be imagined now. Free-market economists from Mises to Schiff have been calling for exactly that for eons, but I never thought I'd hear it from you!

How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.

Because non-citizens tended to favor Democrats (Obama won more than 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample), we find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections. Non-citizen votes could have given Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health-care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) won election in 2008 with a victory margin of 312 votes. Votes cast by just 0.65 percent of Minnesota non-citizens could account for this margin. It is also possible that non-citizen votes were responsible for Obama?s 2008 victory in North Carolina. Obama won the state by 14,177 votes, so a turnout by 5.1 percent of North Carolina?s adult non-citizens would have provided this victory margin.

Getting back to voting, an interesting article:



http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/mon ... -election/