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Obama's Tax Hikes Won't Be Nearly Big Enough
John Judis, New Republic
Republicans want to reduce the size of the federal government, and they won’t take no for an answer. “I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub,” Grover Norquist famously declared. And in negotiations over the fiscal cliff, they have insisted on cutting spending rather than raising taxes. “The President wants to pretend that spending isn’t the problem,” House Speaker John Boehner has complained.Democrats, for their part, have responded defensively. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/12/31/obama039s_tax_hikes_won039t_be_nearly_big_enough_298813.html
Republicans want to reduce the size of the federal government, and they won’t take no for an answer. “I just want to shrink it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub,” Grover Norquist famously declared. And in negotiations over the fiscal cliff, they have insisted on cutting spending rather than raising taxes. “The President wants to pretend that spending isn’t the problem,” House Speaker John Boehner has complained.Democrats, for their part, have responded defensively. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2012/12/31/obama039s_tax_hikes_won039t_be_nearly_big_enough_298813.html
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