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RE: Tax Increases Coming?

By W. James Antle, III on 12.20.06 @ 4:35PM

It would be a serious misstep by the Democrats if they allow Bush to bait them into proposing a tax increase. Fortunately for them, the political acumen needed to do so hasn’t been on display at the White House since the 2004 elections.

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W. James Antle, III, author of the new book Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped?, is editor of the Daily Caller News Foundation and a senior editor of The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jimantle.

http://spectator.org/blog/2006/12/20/re-tax-increases-coming

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