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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe $20 BILLION Dollar Teaparty Tax Of 2013
Even before the deadline, the stalemate was taking its toll. Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics told CNN's Christine Romans on Tuesday that the standoff has cost the economy about $20 billion in gross domestic product. GDP is a measure of the goods and services produced by an economy.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/15/politics/shutdown-showdown/index.html
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The $20 BILLION Dollar Teaparty Tax Of 2013 (Original Post)
kpete
Oct 2013
OP
So Tea Partiers And Repugs - Is This Money That Our Children Will Be Saddled With....
global1
Oct 2013
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global1
(25,253 posts)1. So Tea Partiers And Repugs - Is This Money That Our Children Will Be Saddled With....
and will be on the hook to pay?
jsr
(7,712 posts)2. Send a bill to the Koch Brothers
Give it to their messenger boy Ted Cruz.
JEB
(4,748 posts)3. They just keep stumbling over their own dicks.
I guess they like it.
City Lights
(25,171 posts)4. Let's send 'em a bill!
indepat
(20,899 posts)5. Worry not: that $20 billion along with a boodle of lagniappe will be extracted from the old,
the poor, the weak, and the lame.
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)6. Get thenames of all those in the picture and send them the bill.