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Defending Defense: How the GOP Can Escape the Budget Box Canyon

Paul6310 Wrote: Dec 06, 2012 7:00 AM

Actually, it just causes them to shift the way they are compensated. There will be no net taxes received by government...there may even be a drop. The people in the newsrooms are really supposed to be able to see this (it having happened a number of times in their lifetimes already), but they don't, so when the revenues actually drop relative to what they expected, they'll be right back claiming that even higher taxes are needed. It's an easy life, being the court herald to a tyrant, but NBC, et al, are happy to live that way. The pay is good, the living is easy and they get to look down on all the people they consider unwashed.

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Defending Defense: How the GOP Can Escape the Budget Box Canyon

Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio wowed the Beltway conservatives last night, which is a little bit like the British cheering a successful evacuation from Dunkirk. The GOP indeed lives to fight another day, and that day will be here quickly as 2014’s candidates are already declaring –Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito for the United States Senate in West Virginia and former Governor Michael Rounds for the same in South Dakota.

Which weights the negotiations over the fiscal cliff with a great deal of political as well as economic significance. The parties purport to care about the latter, but they are...

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