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1. Everybody’s so different, I haven’t changed…

   “November 8, 2011: Republicans’ second super committee offer is $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction. It does include $300 billion in new tax revenue, but in exchange for extending the Bush tax cuts and lowering the top tax rate. The plan would ultimately cut taxes for the wealthy and raise them for everyone else.”

   - Sarah Ayres

   This point right here is the most frustrating aspect of the recent position of the Republican party (and by “recent” I mean: the moment they realized Barack Obama would become president and decided not to represent anyone but themselves). 

   This “compromise” represents everything that is wrong with the Republican position. Despite claiming they care about the middle class, and American laborers, the Republican party would rather raise your taxes than raise the taxes of the wealthiest Americans by 2.5%. 

   Despite numerous calls from wealthy Americans to raise their taxes, and the opinion of 68% of Americans polled, the GOP refuses to listen. Make no mistake, this is about protecting their own self-interest and wealthy lobbyists. It has absolutely nothing to do with the poor in this country, or lowering the deficit they claim to hate so much. 

   Read it again, Republicans would rather raise the taxes on everyone else, than end the Bush era tax cuts. That was their compromise. Raise your taxes, raise my taxes, protect the rich folks. Their compromise was to throw you under the bus. Their compromise was to protect the people who give them money so they can run smear campaigns in the next election cycle.

   The party that claims it won’t raise taxes because it would hurt the economy actually proposed raising the taxes on the people who are hurting the most, and letting the people with yachts, mansions, and summer homes keep their tax cuts. Democrats rejected it.

   Yeah, that’s right friends, Democrats protected you from Republicans raising your taxes. Don’t forget it.

   You know that line in the Joe Walsh song about driving a Mazerati and going to parties? The one with the line about everyone else changing after he got famous? Well, that’s the GOP. They’re completely lying to themselves. They don’t get it. They’re disconnected, and they’re completely destroying the way our branches of government are supposed to work.

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