For those of you looking for a succinct comparison as to where the three remaining viable candidates stand on taxes, take a look at Newsweek's "By the Numbers" Periscope entry from the March 10th issue.  It's a little easier to read in the magazine format but for those who prefer online research, here's the link.

Probably the position I'm most comofrtable with is Obama's.  He, like Hillary Clinton, would let the Bush tax cuts for high earners lapse (something I've been arguing for ever since the cuts went through 6 1/2 years ago). 

The real difference between Obama and Clinton is on the spending side of the equation.  Obama is more moderate in all of his spending areas than Clinton except for energy spending--especially when it comes to health care.  His plan, which provides more limited coverage than Clinton's, is about 3/5ths of the cost.

Most of McCain's spending will go, predictably, to defense spending.

Nice to have the numbers crunched for you a little bit, eh?

On the personal front, it's been a great couple of days of physical activity after two weeks of sinus-infection related downtime.  Yesterday I had a tough "welcome back" strength training with Calin, my slightly sadistic trainer.  I worked almost all of the arm and chest muscles to failure and I feel it today.

Today, it was nine holes of golf and then gardened this afternoon.  I'm dog-tired, but happy to be moving around instead of being stuck on the couch.

We're off this weekend to visit our friend in prison.  So no blog until late Saturday or early Sunday.  At least they've reinstated Friday visits so we should have a nice, long chat tomorrow.

Speaking of prison, a short aside to yesterday's blog.  Are you aware that we're currently shipping a significant proportion of our prison population to other states?  Yet another reason not to jail illegal aliens, imho.

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