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President's Gamesmanship Hurts Economy
The Aspen Times ^ | December 13, 2012 | Charlie Leonard

Posted on 12/13/2012 7:51:27 AM PST by Aspenhuskerette

As the president gets closer to achieving his most cherished political ambition — raising taxes on the top earners in our country — I've started to wonder what satisfaction he, and those he's convinced this is a good idea, will actually experience.

Forget all the silly speeches. By any seriously objective standard, the president's tax increases will do little or nothing to reduce his deficits or his approaching legacy of extraordinary national debt. Without increasing taxes more broadly and without structurally reforming our entitlement programs, which now appears likely, the president's plan changes virtually nothing about the direction or funding of our government.

The president's new taxes will not

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: debt; deficit; economy; taxes

1 posted on 12/13/2012 7:51:29 AM PST by Aspenhuskerette
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To: Aspenhuskerette

The Won is not interested in governing - he is interested in ruling.

And so are the barbarians on the other end of his BlackBerry.


2 posted on 12/13/2012 7:55:35 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

bttt


3 posted on 12/13/2012 7:55:53 AM PST by NeoCaveman (SMOD 2012)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

And who out there believes he will be satisfied with just taxing the crap out of the successful among us??


4 posted on 12/13/2012 7:58:05 AM PST by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

All by design, Comrade. All. By. Design.


5 posted on 12/13/2012 8:20:00 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Aspenhuskerette

Obama’s highest priority is not taxing the rich. He knows what will happen when it does. It will hurt the economy.

THAT is his highest priority——Cloward-Pliven.


6 posted on 12/13/2012 8:20:27 AM PST by Venturer
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The Grifter oftentimes uses misdirection in The Con. I think it was Bruce Willis in LUCKY NUMBER SLEVIN who explains “The Kansas City Shuffle” or the con.
“When everyone looks left, you go right.”
Obama is just a Shill. He’s out there to misdirect you. He hints at being a socialist so you’ll “look left”, while he steals your money. Does anyone, anyone, actually believe that Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are socialists? Then why keep calling them that? You insult socialists. The Democrat leaders love the high life. Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to put on a Mao suit and pick onions. She’s a crook....a Shill. The crooks are after the government treasuries because that’s where the big money is. Was Jesse Jackson Junior a socialist when he was using campaign money to buy his girlfriend a $30,000 watch? Heck no! The Democrat leaders are thieves.


7 posted on 12/13/2012 9:10:12 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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