The Republi-con 0
Paul Harris, writing at the Guardian, analyzes the duplicity of Republicans on economic policy. A nugget:
Yet, that very same deficit would also be massively boosted by saving Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy from expiry. That, however, does not seem to bother them. It’s unfair, they howl, to raise anyone’s taxes at such a time – failing to point out that “raising taxes” is very different from letting tax cuts expire on time (as they were designed to do, not by Obama, but by President George W Bush).
It is a staggering confidence trick that the Republicans are seeking to pull off. Except that most such con jobs at least vaguely try and disguise themselves. This one is being carried out in plain sight.
Afterthought:
If you are already rich, you can never have so much that Republicans won’t want to give you more.
