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Kristol says "ramm[ing] through" tax cuts is fine because "it's only money" but doing so with health care is "really wrong"

September 13, 2009 10:27 am ET

From the September 13 edition of Fox Broadcasting Co.'s Fox News Sunday:

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- by Marker (September 13, 2009 10:54 am ET)
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  That is the repug mind set in a nutshell. Money for the rich and screw everyone else.
  
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  - by jjamele2880 (September 13, 2009 11:09 am ET)
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    Everything you need to know about Bill Kristol, his party, and his network: According to these guys, it's really wrong to link Health Care Reform with legislation which helps pay for it.
    
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- by pros2pros2940 (September 13, 2009 11:28 am ET)
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  Hmmm....Reagan/Bush I tripled the debt, Bush II doubled it. Of course Reagan attempted to correct things by raising taxes 7 times but did it on the backs of working class Americans.
  
  The year 1988 appears to be the only year of the Reagan presidency, other than the first, in which taxes were not raised legislatively. Of course, previous tax increases remained in effect. According to a table in the 1990 budget, the net effect of all these tax increases was to raise taxes by $164 billion in 1992, or 2.6 percent of GDP. This is equivalent to almost $300 billion in today's economy.
  
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  - by jjamele2880 (September 13, 2009 11:48 am ET)
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    Remember George W Bush sniggering at Gore's insistence on "Pay-Go" during one of their debates in 2000? At the time, I thought that Bush was just being a clueless, uninformed idiot. Turns out, he was actually sneering at the concept of actually PAYING for programs instead of kicking the cost way down the road, to be a burden to the next generation. Party of Fiscal Responsibility, indeed.
    
    Oh, and it also turned out that, yes, George W Bush was a clueless, uninformed idiot.
    
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- by 1st Republic 14th Star (September 13, 2009 6:11 pm ET)
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  Why doesn't Kristol say what he really means? He thinks it's right when Republicans do it, and he thinks it wrong when Democrats do it, no matter what IT is.
  
  Kristol's whole values system is outcome based -- he thinks the process is fair as long as he gets the result HE wants.
  
  I'm sure Kristol's middle initial must be "H" for Hypocrite.
  
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