Endnotes – Chapter 2

²² Congressional Budget Office, “Budget and Economic Outlook : Fiscal Years 2007-2016”, January 2006, Table 4.4 pg 102 www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/70xx/doc7027/01-26-BudgetOutlook.pdf (accessed April 3, 2009).

²³ Hamilton, Federalist No. 30 http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa30.htm (accessed April 3, 2009).

²⁴ Madison, Federalist No. 10 http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm (accessed April 3, 2009).

²⁵ Hamilton, Federalist No. 12 http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa12.htm (accessed April 3, 2009).

²⁶ Hamilton, Federalist No. 35 http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa35.htm (accessed April 3, 2009).

²⁷ Madison, Federalist No. 10 http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa10.htm (accessed April 3, 2009).

²⁸ Tax Foundation, Special Report, April 2008, No. 160 http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/sr160.pdf (accessed April 3, 2009).

²⁹ Alexander Fraser Tytler, The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, 1776 cited at: http://www.conservativeforum.org/authquot.asp?ID=723 (accessed April 3, 2009).

³⁰ Joint Economic Committee, Press Release, Oct 24, 2002 http://www.house.gov/jec/press/2002/10-24-02.htm (accessed April 3, 2009).

³¹ Ibid.

³² Ibid.

³³ George W. Bush, The President’s Agenda for Tax Relief, http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/reports/report30652.pdf (accessed April 3, 2009).

³⁴ Congressional Budget Office, “Effective Federal Tax Rates Under Current Law, 2001 to2014”, August 2004, Table 2 and Table 3, http://www.cbo.gov/showdoc.cfm?index=5746&sequence=0 (accessed April 3, 2009).

³⁵ Plato, Republic, Part IX §8, 565a-d http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/republic.9.viii.html (accessed April 3, 2009).

³⁶ Alexander Fraser Tytler, The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic, 1776 cited at: http://www.conservativeforum.org/authquot.asp?ID=723 (accessed April 3, 2009) .

³⁷ The European Disease, Wall Street Journal, Feb 8, 2006, pg A16.

³⁸ Robert J. Samuelson, “The French in Denial”, Washington Post, March 28, 2006; Page A23 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/27/AR2006032701301.html (accessed April 3, 2009).

³⁹ Jean-Marie Godard, “French Unions Vow to Hold Major Strike”, The Associated Press, March 26, 2006 http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-14036668_ITM (accessed April 3, 2009).

⁴⁰ Deutsche Welle, “Mass Protests Show Public Distrust of Reform Programs” April 4, 2004 www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1161417,00.html (accessed April 3, 2009).