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General Category => 3DHS => Topic started by: RoboPoster on August 18, 2010, 04:30:04 AM
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Voters Back Tough Steps to Reduce Deficit
Jonathan Weisman, WSJ
RICHMOND, Va.- Frustrated voters, fixing on the $1.5 trillion federal deficit as a symbol of Washington's paralysis, appear increasingly willing to take drastic steps to address the red ink.Leonard Anderson, 56 years old, a Richmond, Va., drug-maker engineer and a Republican, said he would be willing to accept a national sales tax to raise revenues. Kimberly Moore, 46, a Richmond Democrat and bank information-technology analyst, said everyone will have to accept budget cuts. And at 67, Paul DesJardins, a Henrico, Va., Republican, said he would accept higher Medicare co-payments and...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/08/17/voters_back_tough_steps_to_reduce_deficit_239840.html