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digitaldisciplineFrom Steve Inskeep's interview with Obama (emphasis mine):
INSKEEP: Let me ask you about something that we heard from one of our listeners.
The question that we got was: "Please ask him how keeping the tax rate for the richest the same as it has been for a decade creates one single job."
OBAMA: It doesn't, which is why I was opposed to it — and I'm still opposed to it.
The issue here is not whether I think that the tax cuts for the wealthy are a good or smart thing to do. I've said repeatedly that I think they're not a smart thing to do, particularly because we've got to borrow money, essentially, to pay for them.
The problem is, is that this is the single issue that the Republicans are willing to scotch the entire deal for.
And people wonder why I think the GOP is full of shit. And this doesn't even get into the social issues or the hypocrisy and inconsistency of wanting wildly unregulated business but blanket dictats about what consenting adults can and can't do together.
INSKEEP: Let me ask you about something that we heard from one of our listeners.
The question that we got was: "Please ask him how keeping the tax rate for the richest the same as it has been for a decade creates one single job."
OBAMA: It doesn't, which is why I was opposed to it — and I'm still opposed to it.
The issue here is not whether I think that the tax cuts for the wealthy are a good or smart thing to do. I've said repeatedly that I think they're not a smart thing to do, particularly because we've got to borrow money, essentially, to pay for them.
The problem is, is that this is the single issue that the Republicans are willing to scotch the entire deal for.
And people wonder why I think the GOP is full of shit. And this doesn't even get into the social issues or the hypocrisy and inconsistency of wanting wildly unregulated business but blanket dictats about what consenting adults can and can't do together.
