ForAmerica rolls out "Angry Voters" game

I’ve spent most of today reading about the president’s disingenuous plan to soak the rich reduce the deficit. His speech has rightly been dismissed as pure political theater — how could the House ever agree to what the president has proposed? — and GOP leadership has made it clear they consider his deficit reduction plan as just so much more class warfare rhetoric.

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Over at The Heritage Foundation, Curtis Dubay, a senior tax policy analyst, notes that Obama’s tax hikes on job creators will be permanent, whereas his job creation measures will be short-lived. In Dubay’s words, “In the Administration’s poorly crafted and contradictory jobs package, the American people get permanent tax hikes that would enlarge the federal government to offset the cost of temporary jobs policies that would not create any jobs. In the long run, the tax hikes in this plan are more likely to destroy more jobs than the jobs policies create.”

Other budget policy analysts are busy removing the many gimmicks from the president’s plan to find the exact ratio of tax hikes to spending cuts — and it’s not looking pretty. The president might call this a “balanced approach” but the scale is tipping heavily to the tax hike side. In fact, GOP Senate Budget Committee analysts have suggested that, when all is said and done, tax hikes will account for any and all deficit reduction achieved by the president’s plan — because it won’t cut a penny of net spending.

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None of this makes me happy. In fact, it makes me angry. So when I received an e-mail with a link to the latest game ginned up by Brent Bozell’s ForAmerica, I was pretty pumped to play. It’s not quite as fun as the iPad version of “Angry Birds,” but, on a day like today, it’s the perfect antidote to irritation. Have fun!

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