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The fallacy of the 10:1 Mix of Spending Cuts and Tax Hikes Question

August 13, 2011 By Jeff

I suspect most of you have seen or heard about this exchange during the Republican Presidential Debate in Iowa last Thursday night: It was a bullshit question, first of all unless those spending cuts are immediate they’ll never materialize… particularly when the baseline for negotiations is that the taxes increase are made in the first […]

Filed Under: Economy, Politics Tagged With: 2012 Elections, Republicans, Spending Cuts, Tax increases

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