In Wisconsin and Washington, Broke Ain't Broke - Page 1 - Debra J. Saunders - Townhall Conservative

In Wisconsin and Washington, Broke Ain't Broke - Page 1 - Debra J. Saunders - Townhall Conservative: "'America is not broke,' filmmaker Michael Moore told a group protesting against Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's attempts to curb public employee union collective bargaining in Madison over the weekend.

'Neither is Wisconsin.'

Forget Wisconsin's projected two-year $3.6 billion budget shortfall. Forget this year's $1.65 trillion in federal deficit spending. Any claim that Wisconsin -- or Washington -- is broke, Moore claimed, is 'a Big Lie.'

'We reject anyone who tells us America is broke and broken,' he explained. When President George W. Bush was in the White House, Democrats railed against deficit spending. Now they don't even seem to notice red ink.

The new message: A government can't really be broke because politicians have the power to raise taxes.

In Moore's America, as long as lawmakers preside over spending increases, taxpayers have an obligation to keep ponying up -- whether they like it or not."

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