Tag Archives: tax increase

Stockman’s Fiery Rhetoric

Posted on March 30, 2011

David Stockman claims that discretionary spending is "out of control."  But it’s up just 1.6 percent this year. The former Reagan administration budget director caught our attention with an incendiary quote to The Fiscal Times news site, where he urged fellow Republicans to shut down the government if necessary to …
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Tax Tally Trickery

Posted on July 3, 2008

Summary The McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee both claim that Obama has voted 94 times “for higher taxes.” We find that their count is padded. After looking at every one of the 94 votes that the RNC includes in its tally, we find: Twenty-three were for measures that …
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