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Budget and Spending

Tea and Sympathy

For the Tea Party there is no such thing as a moderate Republican; no such thing as a loyal opposition; no such thing as compromise.  Incumbent Republicans who cast votes of conscience are regarded as Republicans in name only to be summarily excluded from the Party of No and their voices stilled.  The Tea Party marches to the beat of a different drummer and those who can’t keep the cadence are banished to the wayside.  There is simply no room for individual opinions that point out the contradictions in its shoddily woven platform of slogans that boil down to a resounding “NO!”  It is a movement devoted to destruction; to ending, not beginning.

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DEATH AND TAXES

In 1789 Benjamin Franklin wrote to Jean-Baptiste Leroy saying, "'In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."  He borrowed and paraphrased the epigram from Daniel Defoe’s A Political History of the Devil published in 1726.  Death is an inevitability of life and, so long as human society has been organized into communities, taxation has been an inevitability of human existence in order to finance the community’s common services and improvements. 

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