Daily Topics - Monday February 20th, 2017
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Coming up today on The Thom Hartmann Program - Your Home for the Resistance:
President's Day 2017
- America's LugenPress Problem...
- Get ready for The Republican's Tax Scam…
- Who Will Take The Blame for the 2017 Recession - Trump or Obama?
- Is Single Payer Coming to California? Wendell Potter, Deadly Spin/Nation on the Take/Tarbell
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Re: Taxes
There is some truth to Democrats being the "Tax and Spend" party. They tax to pay for the programs, highways, etc. they approve. The Republicans are the "Spend on the Credit Card" party. It is ironic, but the Republicans who preach "There is no such thing as a free lunch" don't live that way. To paraphrase FDR, Republicans promise to do everything, for everybody and it won't cost anyone anything.