Economics are social issues

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When the President announced a federal government shutdown had been averted, he noted it was “a debate about spending cuts, not social issues.”

But a spending cut is a social issue. So are spending increases, tax rates, forms of taxation, and manner of regulation. These are the rules that allow, or preclude, entrepreneurs from building the American dream and creating more jobs.

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