Posts Tagged ‘debt limit’
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The Pelosi-Bachmann Axis
Posted on July 12, 2011
Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, must be very happy with her colleague Michele Bachmann. Bachmann (R-Minn.) has stated repeatedly that she will never vote to increase the debt limit....
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Shared Sacrifice
Posted on July 11, 2011
In the context of the debt limit, Democrats have been pushing for tax increases because they want to punish the rich. They believe that because the so-called rich pay only...
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Debt and Taxes
Posted on June 27, 2011
Ben Franklin was the one who first said that the only inevitable things in life were death and taxes. These days, the same could probably be said for debt and...
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Gerry Returns
Posted on June 13, 2011
When Elbridge Gerry presided over Massachusetts as its governor in 1812, he signed into a law a redistricting plan that helped benefit his Democratic-Republican Party. One district was said to...
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