Tuesday 23 March 2010
The bill includes the largest tax cut for small business in US history; yet Retroblicans, the party supposedly in favour of tax cuts, opposed it, while the tax&spend Dumbocrats supported it.
It will, according to independent analysis, reduce the deficit by some $1 trillion; yet lifelong fiscal conservatives opposed it.
After the main bill was passed into law, the Retroblicans voted against dropping the sweetheart funding deal for Nebraska and other states - and voted against reducing the tax on so-called cadillac health plans.
These counter-intuitive results seem to indicate that politics rather than principle led the vote
These counter-intuitive results seem to indicate that politics rather than principle led the vote
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 06:43 
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It's more complex than that