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Those are the essential questions reporters should be asking GOP politicians, as well as Democrats, if they roll out nice-sounding proposals to cut taxes, give tax breaks, or spend tax dollars on favored projects.

Jason Salzman: Excuse Me Republicans, But How Will You Pay for That? Jason Salzman 2011

There is no end, of course, to people promoting the use of the tax code to support nice-sounding things.

After Osama, Energy Sanity? Jr. Holman W. Jenkins 2011

But in order to make their policies more attractive to Whitehall and Westminster, Layard and his colleagues have taken all the politics out and left nice-sounding aspirations about turning "the rising tide of excessive individualism".

The trouble with the economics of happiness | Aditya Chakrabortty 2011

Those are the essential questions reporters should be asking GOP politicians, as well as Democrats, if they roll out nice-sounding proposals to cut taxes, give tax breaks, or spend tax dollars on favored projects.

Jason Salzman: Excuse Me Republicans, But How Will You Pay for That? Jason Salzman 2011

The Marine Band Deluxe is a nice-sounding harp, less likely to hurt you, but seems expensive (£36!) until you start looking at other brands.

On Harmonicas « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog 2009

Little old ladies in Surrey still get their regular dose of Empire-longing, reactionary conservatism from the Daily Telegraph; meanwhile, the Tories message nice-sounding stuff to other people on other media, like BBC or whatever.

Matthew Yglesias » Doing It With Twitter 2009

"We believe voters have the right to know who is spending this money because there are lots of organizations who hide behind nice-sounding names, like Americans for Cleans Oceans funded by BP," Van Hollen said.

Cantor rips Van Hollen for citing BP on DISCLOSE act 2010

Granted, there's the promise of a free health pony to every sick kid in the country and plenty of nice-sounding stuff about decentralisation and patients 'rights and accountability and all the rest of it.

Tory health policy is confused and contradictory: so why do they want to talk about it? 2010

Second, Berman abuses the tax code by creating nice-sounding "nonprofit" charitable organizations that serve no discernible purpose but exist to attack legitimate public interest organizations.

Wayne Pacelle: The Smear Becomes More Clear 2010

Granted, there's the promise of a free health pony to every sick kid in the country and plenty of nice-sounding stuff about decentralisation and patients 'rights and accountability and all the rest of it.

Tory health policy is confused and contradictory: so why do they want to talk about it? 2010