Michelle Muccio offers a simple commonsense stimulus plan:<\/p>\n
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I like it, suspending payroll taxes for a year would have a far more immediate effect than anything in the plan being rushed through congress.<\/p>\n
Personally, my idea of a stimulus plan would be:<\/p>\n
What say you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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