Opinion columns by Timothy Taylor in the San Jose Mercury News: 1993
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December 27, 1993 - "Newcomers Don't Strain the Job Market"

December 15, 1993 - "GATT on a Hot Tin Roof - In Most Cases, Protectionism is Just a Poorly Designed Industrial Subsidy"

November 21, 1993 - "Realistically, the Border Patrol is a Deterrent, Not a Wall"

October 28, 1993 - "Milton Friedman Notwithstanding, Proposition 174 is Just Too Big a Risk"

October 24, 1993 - "Tally How"

October 24, 1993 - "What Immigrants Cost - Bottom Line: Figuring in the Taxes They Pay, It's Basically Nothing"

September 26, 1993 - "So Much Care (And So Much Money)"

August 29, 1993 - "Ordinary Job Growth - Clinton is Not a Miracle Worker"

August 22, 1993 - "Tax Now; Cut Next Year"

August 15, 1993 - "In Competition - It's Tough Out There, But in Key Areas America is Still No. 1"

August 12, 1993 - "NAFTA Fears are More Hype Than Fact - To Succeed in a World of Tough Competitors, Nations Must Find Ways to Accelerate the Evolution from Industries and Jobs of the Present to Those of the Future"

August 5, 1993 - "Currency Choice - Various Economists have Estimated that Between Two-thirds and Four-fifths of U.S. Currency is Circulating Abroad"

July 18, 1993 - "Attack of the Bean-counters - Nobody Likes Being Evaluated, But the U.S. Economy Can't Continue Forking Over Hundreds of Billions for Health Care, Trusting That It Will Be Spent Wisely"

July 9, 1993 - "A Tizzy Over Trade - Many Economists would Argue that a Bilateral Trade Deficit is Literally a Meaningless Statistic. A Nation's Overall Balance of Trade Matters, but Economics Offers No Reason that Trade Should Balance with Every Individual Trading Partner."

June 29, 1993 - "The Jobs That Would Be"

June 18, 1993 - "It's Time to Throw $35 Billion on Them - Congress Fiddles, S&Ls Smolder"

June 13, 1993 - "Bye, Bye, BTU; Pollution-based Energy Taxes are Better"

June 6, 1993 - "Clinton Nightmare: Inflation Rising From the Grave"

May 28, 1993 - "Zero-to-60 in 5 Nanoseconds"

May 21, 1993 - "Whiz-bang Costs Must be Controlled"

May 14, 1993 - "Investment Tax Credit Begins to Nod Off"

May 10, 1993 - "Where Have All the Takeovers Gone?"

May 3, 1993 - "Trade Negotiations Need Not Blind Us"

April 26, 1993 - "The Hidden, High Costs"

April 9, 1993 - "The Best Job Creation Program is a Healthy Economy"

April 2, 1993 - "So Quit Believing in the Benefits Fairy"