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Democrats: Absent Tax Hikes, We're Totally Willing to Head Over the Fiscal Cliff

Uber Dave Wrote: Nov 16, 2012 11:43 PM

...change requires reducing the US economy to ashes so that Liberal/Marxist/Progressives can rescue Amerika from itself by implementing the Worker’s Paradise. After the Evil One destroyed the flagship of Marxist ideology by using the ill-gotten gains of America to spend the Soviet Union into oblivion, just imagine the sweet, ironic ecstasy when Statist/Socialist/Progressives are finally successful at scuttling the U.S.S. Constitution through the destruction of her economy and replace that wheezing old witch with the Battleship Potemkin!

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Democrats: Absent Tax Hikes, We're Totally Willing to Head Over the Fiscal Cliff

Profoundly irresponsible? Of course. Politically insane? Not really. I'll expound on the second point in a moment, but first, let's survey the brazen talk from Team Blue -- with massive, recession-inducing tax hikes hanging in the balance. Our new friend Patty Murray is at the front of the line:

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) says that if Republicans do not agree to let tax cuts expire for Americans making over $250,000 per year, the country should go over the fiscal cliff, which would allow automatic cuts in spending and the expiration of all tax cuts to...

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