ProudDad
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Wed Dec-08-10 02:45 PM
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A Tax Deal Fit For The Gilded Age |
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President Barack Obama and Congressional Republicans are ready to mortgage the American economy to billionaires in exchange for a few months of unemployment benefits. This deal is easily the gravest economic outrage of the Obama presidency to date, and signals that other political assaults on the economy are ahead. http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/12/07/a-tax-deal-fit-for-the-gilded-age/
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The actual consequences of this deal, of course, will be more severe than the political fallout in 2012. We’ll soon hear about “tough choices” facing the country as a result of our allegedly out-of-control budget deficit (bond interest rates, shmond interest rates!). Now that raising taxes on the rich has been taken off the table, those “choices” will translate to devastating cuts in Social Security. After agreeing to useless tax cuts for the rich in the name of economic “stimulus,” Wall Street executives and Congressional Republicans will demand Social Security be slashed, further sabotaging our demand-starved economy, and actually starving our senior citizens.
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Wed Dec-08-10 02:54 PM
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2. Since when do 'tough choices' include more supply side? |
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