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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	You don't understand the pledge
	Date:	1/1/2013 10:40:52 AM

GF, like the media and most on the left you simply don't understand the nature of the pledge and never have so let me explain and I think it will make better sense. Grover is simply a conduit for the pledge. The pledge not to raise taxes was actualy made to the voters of the district or state that voted for the Senator or Representative. By signing the pledge they communicated an important value to the voters and I can assure you for many of us it was a litmus test in the primaries. These politicians are simply doing something they promised the voters they would do....oppose income tax increases. I cannot for the life of me understand why it is OK for Obama to go after his promised tax increases but it's not OK for those members of Congress who promised not to vote for them to vote no. And I can assure you that any that do will face a strong primary challenge by someone that will adhere to their promises. Elections have consequences and the American people returned the GOP to control of the House for a reason.

We do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. The increase in taxes will only harm the economy and will not come even remotely close to solving the real problem, in fact it will make it worse. These are unadulterated truths based on history and economics as I have explained in other posts. The fact is if you want to truly increase revenues to the treasury you would actually lower tax rates or make the current rates permanent and if you want to truly reduce the national debt at the same time you would attack the spending problem concurrently. But that is not what Obama and Harry Reid are doing and with the aid of the govt media they have changed the subject to class envy. That you and the other low information voters (or maybe you simply agree with Obama and Reid) fall for this is a sad comment about our education system. I have never understood the ability of otherwise intelligent people to simply ignore facts, logic and reason and pursue or support policies that have never and will never work and actually create the opposite results from those being expressed as a reason for wanting them. It is truly a marvel to me and the victory of emotion over reason.