Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.
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Washington is a place where politics and economics often aren't on speaking terms.
I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
I haven't been in Washington long, but I have learned that it is a place filled with people who say one thing to get elected and do the opposite once they get there.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.
Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.
Washington is politics! Somehow if people have political objectives, then those objectives are automatically disqualified? If that's the case, the Democrats have no business being legitimized about anything because everything they do is political.
Washington does not tax too little: it spends way too much.
If ever there were a place where people not only tend not to face economic facts, but it's almost their purpose not to face economic facts, it's Washington.
Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.
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