Opinion columns by Timothy Taylor in the San Jose Mercury News in 1995
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December 7, 1995 - "Need a Political Lift? Then Send in the Troops"

November 5, 1995 - "Low-Income Tax Credit for Children is Sensible"

October 18, 1995 - "Truth About Inflation Might Be Unwelcome"

October 1, 1995 - "The Sky Won't Fall if Debt Ceiling is Abolished"

September 24, 1995 - "Corporate 'Welfare' is Tricky"

September 19, 1995 - "When the Boomers Retire, Kaboom - Medicare Needs a Transfusion"

September 7, 1995 - "Minnesota Vinter Let Grapes Suffer, Hopes Customers Won't"

September 5, 1995 - "Unions Can't Lock Out the Future - American Labor Preoccupied with Internal Matters, Must Log On to the Information Age"

August 24, 1995 - "Superfund Overhaul - With a Huge Chunk of the Money for Toxic Cleanup Going to Lawyers, and Only 17% of the Worst Dump Sites Purged, it's Time to Simplify Rules on Financing Hazardous Waste Removal"

August 20, 1995 - "Telecommunications Deregulation and the Cellophane Fallacy"

August 9, 1995 - "The Impossible Dream of a Balanced Budget"

July 24, 1995 - "AFDC is Cheap; Moving Off it Isn't"

July 14, 1995 - "Tower to Workforce: No Sweat, You're Holding Steady"

July 2, 1995 - "The Trade War that Didn't Happen"

June 27, 1995 - "Farm Subsidies Need More Than Just Pruning"

June 20, 1995 - "Penny Saved is Just About America's Rate"

May 28, 1995 - "The Effect is Negligible - Immigration and You Wallet"

May 21, 1995 - "At Least They Have a Plan"

May 14, 1995 - "Place Your Bet: No Recession"

May 7, 1995 - "Why Medicare is So Sick"

May 1, 1995 - "The Dollar is Just Down, It's Not Dead"

April 23, 1995 - "Flat Tax Trade-offs and Truths"

April 11, 1995 - "On the Verge of a Long-term Economic Boom?"

March 31, 1995 - "ABCs of R&D"

March 24, 1995 - "Derivatives Dealing Indeed is Dangerous -- For the Reckless"

March 16, 1995 - "Peso's Plummeting Past"

March 7, 1995 - "Deeper in Debt"

February 3, 1995 - "The Zen of the Line-item Veto"

January 30, 1995 - "Economic Policy Should Stress Bigger Pie, Not Just Dividing It"

January 27, 1995 - "Maybe $5 an Hour Would Create Jobs"

January 20, 1995 - "Technology's Inequality: If You Know How to Use It, You'll Have a Higher Income -- But Maybe Not Forever"

January 3, 1995 - "NAFTA, One Year Afta, Looks Good: Failure Would Have Delivered Body Blow to Mexican Economy"