Is It Possible to Balance the Budget?

The constant complaint from the Democrats is that Republicans give tax cuts to the very rich, at the expense of the middle class.

(It'd be nice if we'd give tax cuts to the middle class, by stopping funding to the very poor. If you're poor, don't have kids when you're 13 years old, get an education and embrace that education, get a job, move to a better neighborhood. Then have kids. Problem easily solved.)

Rush played a sound clip from Chris Van Hollen:

VAN HOLLEN: The Republican plan in the House fails the simple test of balance. In fact, if you look at the Republican plan it is simply a recycled rigid ideology that says we need to provide big tax breaks to the very wealthy --

RUSH: See?

VAN HOLLEN: -- and the very powerful --

RUSH: See?

VAN HOLLEN: -- at the expense of the rest of the country.

RUSH: See?

VAN HOLLEN: It's dressed up in a lot of nice sounding rhetoric about reform, but in fact it's the same tired, old playbook that we've seen before. They preserve and in fact increase tax cuts for the very wealthiest Americans. They keep in place tax subsidies to the oil and gas industry and other special corporate interests while they cut education.

But Rush had previously pointed out the wealthy to whom Obama was giving money:

They sent Van Hollen out there to offer up the 30-year-old cliches from the Democrat Party playbook about why this budget's dead on arrival, and he talked about all the tax breaks for the rich, and of course we have the story about the crony capitalism with Obama and AT&T, $140 million of your taxpayer money given to AT&T to fund health care for their early retirees. Ninety-seven million dollars to Verizon and $202 million to the United Auto Workers.

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