No, Obama didn't say that

While I agree with Rush on many things - American exceptionalism, capitalism, etc, there are many things on which I do disagree with him.

Take for example his claim that Obama called people who make $250,000 a year "jet owners."

No, Obama didn't say that. What he said was that people who could afford to fly in a private jet could afford to pay a bit more in taxes.

Then Rush got really disingenuous. He pointed out that if the private jet owner's ability to depreciate his/her jet over 6 years was removed, that would only generate an income of 3 billion over ten years.

And since that was a drop in the bucket, why bother? Because, gee, we spend $40 billion a year on helping students.

It's disingenuous because by Rush's argument, any program that won't generate 3 billion in income over ten years (by removing the tax break, or stopping the spending) shouldn't be implemented because, hey, it's just a drop in the bucket!

But those drops in the bucket add up! I'd very much like to see us stop funding overseas studies on whether prostitutes drink too much, or whether men can be trained to wash their genitalia so as not to get AIDS, and so on. What's the excuse for cutting them, in Rush's mind? If they only cost $1 billion, and the deficit is in the trillions, there's no need to cut it! That is the gist of Rush's remarks if you think about it!

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