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Why Rush Limbaugh should back ginormous tax increases now

Karl — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 19:51:04 +0000

Presenting the bill.

One of Rush Limbaugh’s favored rhetorical devices is demonstrating absurdity by being absurd, perhaps most infamously with his 1992 endorsement of Bill Clinton for president. One of his occasional guest hosts, Mark Steyn, recently mused that House Speaker John Boehner might want to urge Americans to pay for the government they demand — but Steyn [...]

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Just a reminder: this is a spending crisis, not a revenue crisis

Ed Morrissey — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:21:43 +0000

Cliff notes and Clinton nostalgia.

We’re hearing a lot of nostalgia for the Clinton era in this debate over the upcoming fiscal cliff. Democrats argue that we need to return to the Clinton-era tax rates in order to get back to Clinton-era budget stability, but that argument utterly founders on the facts — and I’m not the only one to [...]

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Warren Buffett: Have I mentioned lately that my secretary’s paying a higher tax rate than I am?

Allahpundit — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:22:42 +0000

The one percent?

A patty-cake interview from ABC on the “Buffett Rule,” which will inevitably become the “Romney Rule” unless Newt pulls this off in Florida: Buffett’s secretary since 1993, Debbie Bosanek, sat next to her boss just hours after being invited by the president to the State of the Union address, where the president made her the [...]

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