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brooklynite

(94,302 posts) Wed Jan 2, 2013, 12:29 AM Jan 2013

...then Republicans can't complain that the Fiscal Cliff bill raises Payroll taxes, because they'd gone up too.

Right?

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So, if the Republicans DIDN'T vote to raise taxes (because "they'd already gone up")... (Original Post) brooklynite Jan 2013 OP

They voted for the fiscal cliff in the first place unblock Jan 2013 #1

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1. They voted for the fiscal cliff in the first place

Wed Jan 2, 2013, 12:42 AM

Jan 2013

And they voted for the original shrub cuts that had an expiration date. They voted for every aspect of rates going up.

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2. Yep. It's just that they don't want their Rich buddies to pay a penny for them.