Article: Yet another stimulus is one too many

The federal stimulus -- that surprise IRS check you got in the mail this spring -- seems to have helped the economy a little bit. But enough to justify another one? No.

At some stage, the president and Congress have to figure out something a little more clever than giving money away.

How are the American people ever supposed to be convinced that the government has a major deficit problem if, every time there's trouble, the government responds by passing out money to just about everybody?

Sen. Barack Obama wants to give people a $1,000 "energy rebate," in response to gas prices. He is wrong. Sen. John McCain wants to spare people from paying gasoline taxes. He is wrong.

Last winter, a lot ...

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