you can call me nuts, can you call me ching little, if you want. but the political battle being waged over extending the bush tax cuts is blowing those storm bands over our heads. look, you don t need me to tell you our economy is on the brink of weakening again. you feel it every day. latest cnn/orc polls just 27% of you say the economy is in good shape. 73% feel that conditions are pretty poor. and while rays of hope peek through the clouds from time to time, the u.s. economy is fragile right now. families are facing long-term unemployment. there are foreclosures. higher student loan payments. higher medical costs. so the notion that you may have to pay higher taxes by next year could make you decide not to spend money you otherwise would have spent. i get it. everyone wants lower taxes. but you can t have lower taxes. because for years and years, your federal government, both political parties, mismanaged the books and spent more money than they took in. our tax system i
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