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Breaking! Republicans Think Tax Cuts Stimulate Economic Growth And Job Creation

By Big Tent Democrat

Ezra Klein writes:

I listed some of the conservative critics of the tax deal in Wonkbook today (Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, the Tea Party Patriots, Charles Krauthammer), but Playbook shows their ranks are growing: Mitt Romney has an op-ed in USA Today saying the tax deal gives "President Obama ... reason to celebrate. The deal delivers short-term economic stimulus, and it does so at the very time he wants it most, before the 2012 elections."

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Well, if Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney say it, it must be true, right Ezra? No doubt they will oppose the government spending cuts they also insist will spur economic growth.

Honestly, the Beltway Dems and bloggers have swallowed the Reagan/Bush mantra on tax cuts hook line and sinker. I'm old enough to remember when Democrats pointed to Bill Clinton's 1993 tax bill that raised taxes on the rich and cut them for the working class and the economic growth and job creation of the 1990s as repudiation of Reagan/Bushism. Truly incredible.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 14, 2010 (boomark / email).