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Anyone, the Tea Partiers included, who advocates maintaining the Bush tax cuts while suggesting that spending should be drastically reduced to balance the budget should fall under one or more of the following categories:
1) They want to end operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in addition to reducing the military budget and "discretionary spending" in proportion to the Bush tax cuts.
2) They're comfortable with fundamentally and likely disruptively changing America both socially and economically to the point of it being unrecognizable from a historical standpoint.
3) They failed at or struggled with math.
4) They're libertarians and misanthropes.
5) They are independently wealthy.
Who are these people who understand what's really going on and who say "no new revenues/taxes" and "cut spending to eliminate the deficit"?
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