Opinion columns by Timothy Taylor in the San Jose Mercury News in 1992
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December 22, 1992 - "When Will All the Jobs Come Back?"

December 11, 1992 - "Where the Tax Money Isn't - Foreign Films Won't Cough Up Too Much More"

November 29, 1992 - "Readers are Willing to Endure Pain - Attack of the Budget Cutters"

November 12, 1992 - "Trade Gamble - The Threatened Tariffs are a Wake-up Call to the European Trade Negotiators That It's Time to Stop Playing Patty-cake, and Start Shoving the French Farmers Toward Compromise"

October 30, 1992 - "Sure! Tax the Rich! One Problem: There Aren't Enough of Them to Make Much of a Dent in the Budget Deficit"

October 28, 1992 - "Tinkering with Health Care Isn't Enough - Germany and Japan have Decent Systems, But No One in the United States is Paying Attention"

October 18, 1992 - "Economic Bad Luck Hurt Bush"

October 8, 1992 - "Economic Slave, If Not Salvation - California Must Improve Its Business Climate By Doing Things Smarter, Beginning with Worker's Comp Reform, Creation of Better Pathways from Schools to Jobs, and Helping Defense Companies to Turn in Civilian Directions"

October 2, 1992 - "Valley Demise is Greatly Exaggerated"

September 24, 1992 - "Europe Likely to Patch Up Fiscal System"

September 14, 1992 - "(Thinking In Traffic)"

August 18, 1992 - "No, IRAs Won't Do the Trick - How to Increase Personal Savings"

August 9, 1992 - "Casualties of the War - Inflation is a Sneaky Enemy; But If You're Going to Endure the Pain of Battling It, Then Kill It Dead"

August 4, 1992 - "Limping State has Used Crutch of IOUs Before"

July 19, 1992 - "Federal Reserve's Economic Toolbox is Nearly Empty"

July 14, 1992 - "The Uneconomical Summits -- Why Bother?"

July 7, 1992 - "A Boss, a Rookie, or a Do-nothing -- Some Choice!"

July 2, 1992 - "Tempting Target for Activist Shareholders - CEOs: Where the Bucks Don't Stop"

June 23, 1992 - "The Dream Goes Sproing!"

April 30, 1992 - "The Incentive is to Destroy, Not Save, Species - An Act in Need of an Overhaul"

April 15, 1992 - "How Could He Possibly have Thought His Flat-tax Plan was a Good Idea?"

March 20, 1992 - "Professor's Model is Usually Right - Do the Math and Bush Wins"

February 27, 1992 - "Research Recession - Development Limps Along"

February 26, 1992 - "Income Inequality - Wages and Skills, Not Taxes, Separate Wealthy From Poor"

February 9, 1992 - "U.S. is Pathetically Addicted to Deficit Spending"

February 7, 1992 - "Big Flaw: Corporate Debt is a Tax Advantage"

February 6, 1992 - "The Take, Historically, has been Stable - The Tax Cut Mantra"

February 5, 1992 - "U.S. Spending on the Elderly is 28% of Total"

February 4, 1992 - "You Owe $800 in Federal Interest"

February 3, 1992 - "The Decline of the Defense Dollar"

February 2, 1992 - "Federal Spending is at a Peak - Ride the Wild Budget"

January 19, 1992 - "The Look of Real Reform"

January 12, 1992 - "America Needs to Work Smarter - Thinking Could Help the Economy"