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As Ben Furnas noted at the time, more than 99 percent of this cost (approximately $249.5 billion) would go to the inheritors of estates worth over $7 million.

Wonk Room » Lincoln Proposes $250 Billion Giveaway To The Rich, In Order To Cut Taxes For 60 Small Businesses 2009

Ben Furnas has made charts and graphs that should finally make it clear that the status quo is unacceptable.

Matthew Yglesias » The Costs of Inaction 2009

Ben Furnas points to new analysis from the Tax Policy Center:

Matthew Yglesias » McConnell’s Middle Class 2009

As Ben Furnas pointed out yesterday, this budget plan gives the average CEO a $1.5 million tax break, while doing precisely nothing for minimum wage workers.

Wonk Room » CNBC Host: Rep. Ryan’s Alternative Budget ‘Gives Me A Lot Of Confidence’ 2009

Our evolving language on 21 Jun 2010 at 9: 58 pm V. Furnas

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Getting it Down: Crappy First Drafts 2010

Ben Furnas has a nifty chart showing how much less effective the main components of the recently released Heritage stimulus plan are than some major progressive alternatives:

Matthew Yglesias » Heritage Stimulus Proposals Vs. Progressive Alternatives 2009

So did J.C. Furnas in the scintillating and perhaps a little wicked history of the temperance movement he published in 1965, "The Life and Times of the Late Demon Rum" another book that should be reprinted.

The All-American Place David Wondrich 2011

Kelly Furnas , executive director of the Journalism Education Association at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kan., estimates that about 25% of high-school yearbooks still name one or more students "most likely to succeed," down from about 75% two decades ago.

'Most Likely to Succeed' Burden Sue Shellenbarger 2011

If Furnas, Kvaal, and MattY truly want to alleviate poverty in the U.S., a very good way to do it is to allow us to enforce our laws and gradually cause many foreign citizens to return home.

Matthew Yglesias » Poverty and the Recession 2009

My chief South Sea influence was H. de Vere Stacpoole, whose novel, The Blue Lagoon, as J.C. Furnas says, "... established for all time the idiom and atmosphere of the popular South Sea romance."

JACK LONDON: THE VARIABLE IN MY LIFE 2010