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Iowa Republicans, after two weeks of trying to decide who won the caucuses they held earlier this month, announced Thursday that they simply could not tell.
At a news conference in Des Moines, we were told that Rick Santorum appeared to be 34 votes ahead, reversing the outcome that favored Mitt Romney on the morning after caucus night by eight votes.
It seems that eight of the precincts (out of 1,774) were not fully able to report on the preferences of those who showed up to participate on Jan. 3. Something happened to the records of who was for whom.
‘Maybe a door was open and they just blew out,’ said one Republican in Des Moines, perhaps only half in jest.Ron Elving’s NPR blog on how Iowa Republicans don’t really know who came out first in their caucuses.Source:
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What the history books are going to show, I believe, is that the Reagan revolution never happened. It was a campaign slogan. Government wasn’t reduced; taxes were cut marginally, but the basic functions of the federal government didn’t change.
David Stockman, Ronald Reagan’s former budget director quoted in the NPR story “Will The Real Ronald Reagan Please Stand Up?”Source:
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There is an easy, conservative argument to make about taxes — and even about the 47 percent. Our code is a block of swiss cheese, with $1 in holes (tax expenditures) for every $2 in cheese (revenue). We can lower rates and raise revenue — for my conservative friends, I will say: “moderately!” — by exchanging lower tax rates for lower tax giveaways. Instead of this, some Republicans, having spent three decades demanding lower taxes every single election, are still professing utter shock and disgust that these tax cuts have helped the poor avoid income taxes … while simultaneously proposing one of the largest tax cuts ever for the rich.
Writer Derek Thompson in his article for The Atlantic “The GOP’s Weird Obsession With Poor People Not Paying Enough Taxes“
To his credit, Romney hasn’t been going after the poor.
Posted on January 6, 2012 with 6 notes
Source: The Atlantic
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