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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It sounds like Obama and the GOP cut a deal that got him more stimulus than he was going to get otherwise and got them tax cuts for the wealthiest 3% of the country for a few more years. Dunno what you mean by "essential" -- the tax cuts that the GOP wanted are bad news for all of us who aren't in that 3%, but the GOP wanted them so badly that it sounds like Obama was able to get a lot for them. As a matter of policy, they aren't good, no doubt. As a matter of what was possible, maybe this was better than other options. Maybe.
As I've said about seventeen thousand times, I think we ought to be running deficits right now to make up for the plunge in private production, but tax cuts for the wealthiest are a really lousy way to do it.
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so you're saying when Obama tries to work with the Rs he can still get the bulk of what he wants, as long as he realizes that two parties will likely want two different things, and he is willing to give a bit? this is 15 wins.
Hank Chinaski
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