Comments on: Obama, Republicans draw lines on new budget deal http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/45612 The oldest political news site on the Internet Sat, 18 May 2013 02:13:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jon http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/45612/comment-page-1#comment-216112 Jon Thu, 08 Nov 2012 18:32:05 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=45612#comment-216112 “Economists have warned that could tip the nation back into recession.”

Or it might not.

High taxes are not correlated with (let alone caused/causing) economic contraction or expansion.

In my experience, public economists are at least as likely to be wrong as they are to be right.

Let the tax cuts expire, and see what happens.

J.

]]> By: Sandy Price http://www.capitolhillblue.com/node/45612/comment-page-1#comment-216064 Sandy Price Thu, 08 Nov 2012 15:33:48 +0000 http://www.capitolhillblue.com/?p=45612#comment-216064 I’m going to have to wait and see if Boehner has the stones to be his own man. That poor man has been hammered and nailed for the last 4 years and has aged easily 20 years. He is a very weak politician.

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