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Ashok is a 29 year old guy from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, USA

Right-wing nutcase. Working hard on my writing, would love readers - feedback is most certainly appreciated. Commentaries on Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Wittgenstein, Heidegger.

  • Created Apr 28 2009 •

    Thank you all so much for making SU a wonderful community - it has been a joy to receive the fine things you've found around the web. Thank you for considering my own work, at times, to be worth a link or stumble: Rethink

  • CBO Grossly Underestimates Cost of Cap and Trade

    Rated Jun 25 • 2 reviews • economics • heritage.org

    From the page: "Most problematic is the CBO's complete omission of the economic damage resulting from restricted energy use. As footnote 3 on page 4 of the CBO analysis reads, "The resource cost does not indicate the potential decrease in gross domestic product (GDP) that could result from the cap. The reduction in GDP would also include indirect general equilibrium effects, such as changes in the labor supply resulting from reductions in real wages and potential reductions in the productivity of capital and labor."[4] In The Heritage Foundation's analysis of the Waxman-Markey climate change legislation, the GDP hit in 2020 was $161 billion (2009 dollars). For a family of four, that translates into $1,870--a pretty big chunk of change that the CBO is ignoring."