"In fact, all four significant Republican presidential candidates still standing are fiscal phonies. They issue apocalyptic warnings about the dangers of government debt and, in the name of deficit reduction, demand savage cuts in programs that protect the middle class and the poor. But then they propose squandering all the money thereby saved — and much, much more — on tax cuts for the rich."
New York Times columnist PAUL KRUGMAN, writing on March 1, 2012 about Mitt Romney and the rest of the GOP presidential candidates.
Politico has a hard-on for Paul Krugman. And so do I.
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