December 2010
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“I mean, supply-side economics should have been killed by the Clinton years: he...”
– From Paul Krugman. It’s these sorts of things that have lead me to believe that the Republican agenda is always the same, no matter what the slogans. Slogans are for whipping up voters, not for simplifying actual policy preferences. Sigh.
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Tax Theater
This weekend, the Democrats put up a bill to maintain the tax cuts on the first $250K of our income, allowing the tax cut to expire on amounts higher than that. The Republicans filibustered but the Democrats didn’t have the “cloture” votes to over come it.
Next up was a bill to extend the tax cuts for the first million dollars of income, and, again, the Republicans successfully...