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So unless you buy something from a &#8220;business&#8221;, like groceries or clothes or gasoline &#8230; or unless you get a paycheck from a big or a small &#8220;business&#8221;, don&#8217;t worry &#8230; it&#8217;s not going to affect you.&nbsp; They say they are not going to take any water out of your side of the bucket, just the &#8220;other&#8221; side of the bucket! That&#8217;s their idea of tax reform.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.koin.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?content_id=dd387bd0-6f08-49e1-bf30-fe27fe147070\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Thompson<\/a>, Republican National Convention, September 2, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need a President who understands that you don&#8217;t make citizens prosperous by making Washington richer, and you don&#8217;t lift an economic downturn by imposing one of the largest tax increases in American history.&nbsp; Now our opponents tell you not to worry about their tax increases.&nbsp; They tell you they are not going to tax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-taxes","category-quotes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We need a President who understands that you don&#039;t make citizens prosperous by making Washington richer, and you don&#039;t lift an economic downturn by imposing one of the largest tax increases in American history. 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