Pay Day

Many Americans received their first paycheck of 2013 today. That sound you hear is the collective "What the . .. " they have emitted upon looking at their pay stub. For all the self-congratulatory back-patting from the White House and Congress on the deal that averted the "fiscal cliff" of tax increases—the deal locked in the George W.

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