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Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics

Mirror, Mirror

by Kevin Drum August 15, 2008January 9, 2022

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MIRROR, MIRROR….When is a tax increase not a tax increase? Do you have to ask? When it’s a Republican tax increase, of course.

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