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Surreal: Obama's Fiscal Cliff Proposal Stuns Washington

nodeamass Wrote: Nov 30, 2012 1:13 PM

If a business violated a law(I am talking about super large corporations like oil companies) REPEATEDLY, why shouldn't it be nationalized? If you arrest a criminal for repeating crimes, is that also fascism?? Prticularly when those crimes result in tens of thousands of victims. I am not going to cnfiscate a business which has no DELIBERATELY and REPEATEDLY flouted the law and which has created tens of thousands of suffereing aas a result.

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Surreal: Obama's Fiscal Cliff Proposal Stuns Washington

Republicans have been asking for the White House's plan for some time now -- well, they finally got one. Oh my:

House Republicans said on Thursday that Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner presented the House speaker, John A. Boehner, a detailed proposal to avert the year-end fiscal crisis with $1.6 trillion in tax increases over 10 years, an immediate new round of stimulus spending, home mortgage refinancing and a permanent end to Congressional control over statutory borrowing limits. The proposal, loaded with Democratic priorities and short on detailed spending cuts, was likely to meet strong...