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M.K. Wrote: Jan 05, 2013 4:19 PM

The GOP did not articulate their case for new jobs. Obama thinks that new jobs are created by taxing you and then using that tax money to hire people to work for the government. That only creates more taxes on business which results in crippling businesses which are trying to grow. Real jobs are created by business owners who start a business and hire people as it grows thereby increasing the tax base which offers more taxes for the government in the first place. Obamanomics has it bass ackwards and it will damage our already damaged economy.

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What's Wrong with the GOP?

Here is the biggest problem with the news coverage of the Fiscal Cliff. The only message coming through was President Obama's message: that he was trying to save the middle class from a tax increase by raising taxes on the rich. On the Republican side, the message was…well…it was a muddled mess.

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