Daily Kos: A Trillion Dollar Tax Robbery Looms: Numbers Shenanigans or Ignorance

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by Tasini

August 3, 2011

Sometimes numbers are a bitch. Because they expose ugly truths that we either choose to ignore or don't understand. We better get this one straight in the next few months or the bi-partisan cuts just shoved down the throats of the American people will pale in comparison to what will come post 2012.

To start, it is inevitable, in my view, that the president will cave on the extension of the Bush tax cuts at the end of the year. That's his track record, as the Citizens for Tax Justice points out:...

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