The Lonely Position of Neutral

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  December 12th at 06:06 PM  | 

I hate raising taxes.  I find high tax rates immoral.  However, we lost the election.  An increase in revenue is inevitable.  What’s perverse about this whole episode is that if we fall off the cliff – Democrats will get everything they want. They’ll get their tax increases, their revenue, and defense cuts.  They would complete their decade-long project of ending the Bush Tax Cuts and | Read More »

Democrats Want To Go Off The Fiscal Cliff

By: Matt Vespa (Diary)  |  November 15th at 05:43 PM  | 

During the president’s Nov. 14 news conference, he channeled the Sandy response as a “metaphor” for how the federal government should operate. ”It’s been aggressive and strong and fast and robust and a lot of people have been helped because of it…that’s a pretty good metaphor for how I want federal government to operate generally, and I’m going to do everything I can to make sure | Read More »