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Veronique de Rugy | Jul 23, 2010

The truth is that we are in this situation because we overspent, made excuses for it, and lied about it. Raising taxes won't address the budget gap and it won't address the basic deficit problem, which is too much spending. Raising taxes will only make the level of economic uncertainty worse than it already is.

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When government refuses to make itself transparent and open and fails to make public information meaningfully available, hackers will liberate the data. It has happened many times over, and it will doubtlessly happen again. Each time government data is freed, citizens gain useful access to valuable information that rightly belongs to them. But perhaps more importantly, government is forced to deal with the new reality of a networked world in which the people demand free online access to public information.