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Five Good Men
by Katie Kieffer
Jan 07, 2013 

There are a few good men. And by “a few,” I mean five. 

Certainly there are far more than five good men in America. But in the U.S. Senate, there are just five moral Republicans. 

Who am I referring to? Let me introduce you to the five men in the Senate who stood their ground while their Republican peers (save two abstainers) voted for a fiscal cliff deal that essentially codifies theft: 

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Alabama), Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah). 

I think conservatives and libertarians should praise and uphold these leaders—and fire their Republican peers who may as well be Democrats. 

I expect my leaders to keep their word. If they tell me they are Republican, I expect them to act like Republicans. And being Republican means voting a certain way; saying “no” to new spending, inflation and taxes—and saying “yes” to virtue, freedom, growth, prosperity and small business opportunities. 

Like these five men, I believe we should have gone over the so-called fiscal cliff. Here’s why: 

1. Spending cuts would have occurred. Instead, Republicans voted to add $4 trillion to the national debt, which already parallels our GDP. 

2. Republicans justified voting for this deal by saying it would not raise income taxes on most Americans. But more debt will increase taxes on all Americans via inflation; the unconstitutional Federal Reserve will “create money” through tactics like printing money and keeping interest rates artificially low to “pay off” the debt. And inflation is a hidden tax that especially hurts poor people and young people who are less established and have fewer savings… 

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