Click here for linkLiberals stumping for tax cuts are as rare as three-dollar bills and hardcover digital books, and for good reason. Devoid of any other organizing principle, the only job of progressivism today is to grow government, and taxation is the blood stream of government.
It is thus with the same healthy does of skepticism that we would greet a talking turtle that we should approach claims by the Obama White House that it really, really wants to cut taxes, dang it, but conservatives won’t let them.
As White House senior advisor David Plouffe told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Nov. 30, “we can cut taxes on 160 million Americans, 98% of the small business, and we can responsibly pay for that by asking 300,000 people who make over $1 million a year to pay their fair share.”[/b]]
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