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Thursday, December 27, 2012

How the Party of Budget Restraint Shifted to ‘No New Taxes,’ Ever Cabal

On a Saturday afternoon in October 1990, Senator Pete V. Domenici turned from a conversation on the Senate floor, caught the eye of a clerk by raising his right hand and voted in favor of a huge and contentious bill to reduce federal deficits. Then he put his hand back into his pocket and returned to the conversation.
It was the end of an era, although no one knew it then. It was the last time any Congressional repugican has voted for higher income taxes.
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