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kpete

(71,996 posts)
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 01:26 PM Oct 2013

The $20 BILLION Dollar Teaparty Tax Of 2013



Even before the deadline, the stalemate was taking its toll. Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics told CNN's Christine Romans on Tuesday that the standoff has cost the economy about $20 billion in gross domestic product. GDP is a measure of the goods and services produced by an economy.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/15/politics/shutdown-showdown/index.html
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global1

(25,251 posts)
1. So Tea Partiers And Repugs - Is This Money That Our Children Will Be Saddled With....
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 01:29 PM
Oct 2013

and will be on the hook to pay?

indepat

(20,899 posts)
5. Worry not: that $20 billion along with a boodle of lagniappe will be extracted from the old,
Wed Oct 16, 2013, 01:39 PM
Oct 2013

the poor, the weak, and the lame.

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