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Maya MacGuineas in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | 'Economy a Top Reason Americans Getting Tuned in to Presidential Elections'

October 13, 2008
McCain favors targeting problem areas, such as helping cash-poor subprime borrowers, strengthening student loans and having a gas tax holiday, while Obama prefers more traditional shot-in-the-arm stimulants including rebates and state budget relief funds, said Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

"They are different approaches, and I don't have an opinion on which would work better. They actually are both crafted from a number of sensible plans," MacGuineas said. "And it's a very confusing economy, so nobody knows how to navigate what we're going through." LINK

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