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Opinion columns by Timothy Taylor in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996
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November 3, 1996 - "The Case of the Disconnected Voter - Why Bother?: That Question is Posed by More and More Voters; Their Answer is in the Turnout"

October 20, 1996 - "It's that Old-Time Welfare Reform: If Thomas Malthus and John Stuart Mill Couldn't Fix it Over a Century Ago, Can Newt Gingrich"

September 15, 1996 - "Good Luck and Alan Greenspan - Economy: Clinton's Success is Mostly a Matter of Fortuitous Timing and Good Decisions Made by Others"

August 9, 1996 - "Nation's Economy Doesn't Need It - The Dole Tax Cut is Hard to Justify"

July 9, 1996 - "Speech on Economics Made Political History - 'A Cross of Gold,' 100 Years Later"

June 16, 1996 - "Clinton Whittles Away at R&D"

June 12, 1996 - "Peace Pays Off - The Federal Deficit is Down Thanks to Reduced Defense Spending"

May 28, 1996 - "Referendum on Russia's Economy - Election: Inflation, Production and Fears of Reform Overshadow the Race for President"

May 23, 1996 - "Indexed Bonds are a Win-Win-Win Policy"

May 12, 1996 - "A World View of Minimum Wage"

May 3, 1996 - "Medical Savings Accounts are the Wrong Medicine"

April 26, 1996 - "Despite its Recent Surge, China Remains a Relatively Small Piece of the Global Economy Investing in Beijing"

April 10, 1996 - "Environmental Reform Dies Again"

March 26, 1996 - "Let's Get a Good Return on the Nation's Air Waves"

March 11, 1996 - "Attack on Free Trade is Bad Economics"

March 4, 1996 - "Rhetoric Meets Corporate Reality"

February 26, 1996 - "Shaking Up Social Security Options: Investment, Individual Accounts"

February 20, 1996 - "Resist Temptation, Keep Hacking Away at Deficit"

February 15, 1996 - "Give Clinton Credit for Fighting Inflation"

January 25, 1996 - "A Graying World Must Rethink Pension Systems"

January 18, 1996 - "What if There's No 1996 Federal Budget? Not to Worry"