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kpete

(71,898 posts)
Tue Dec 13, 2011, 11:58 AM Dec 2011

Gingrich-Helmsley 2012

today's Krugman:

December 13, 2011, 10:04 AM
Gingrich-Helmsley 2012
From the Tax Policy Center, the Gingrich tax plan:


Truly, it is amazing how our political landscape continues to be dominated by people who have been wrong about everything for years.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/gingrich-helmsley-2012/
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/debasing-the-dollar-not/

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and


They Don’t Care About Deficits


But it’s not odd at all, once you realize that the GOP is not now, and never has been (at least not since the 1970s) concerned about the deficit. All the fiscal posturing of the last couple of years has been about using the deficit as a club to smash the welfare state, with the secondary goal of frustrating any efforts on the part of the Obama administration to help the struggling economy.

[h1]The entire debate has been fake. If you don’t understand that, or can’t bring yourself to admit it, you’re missing the whole story.[/h1]

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/they-dont-care-about-deficits/

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