I think Maha just might have come up with the high-end talking point for 2008:
A generation of Americans have been born and grown into adulthood listening to rightie propaganda that taxes must always go down. "Starve the beast," you know. The problem is that "the beast" conservatives are starving is our country.
Now, go read the whole post.
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