"Your Money, Your Vote"
The Third Republican Debate Of all the areas of our lives that the government touches, which is the one that we as individuals probably feel the most? The economy. Whether it be at the gas pump, the grocery store, or our highly taxed paycheck, we feel the effects of governmental fiscal policy all the time, every day. For these reasons I was very interested to watch the third Republican Debate last Wednesday since it was the proclaimed main topic of the event. “Your Money, Your Vote.” But as policies and ideas are bantered back and forth on a debate stage, it can get very easy to get confused about what is what, especially when the topic of ‘billions’ or ‘trillions’ of dollars comes up. People throw numbers back and forth like a tennis ball, while we’re left sitting at home wondering, “How am I going to make ends meet this month?” We had ten candidates up on that stage (and four at the earlier debate), ten different tax plans, ten different ideas a