For Dems, the word they of course leave out is "Illegal," for Republicans, the phrase they leave out is "on the wealthy."
Rush shared this from Mitch O'Connell:
Story #2: McConnell: Obama is Hellbent on Raising Taxes
RUSH: "Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday reiterated their opposition to tax increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), in his first public comments since his meeting with President Obama at the White House on Monday, said the Democrats’ insistence on raising taxes was holding up progress on a deal. 'The path forward… seems to be blocked by an insistence on raising taxes in the middle of an economic slowdown,' McConnell told reporters, pointing out that Democrats, including Obama, has argued against raising taxes during the lame-duck session in December. 'Most of us believe the economy is not any better today than it was in December,' he added. 'We think it’s a job-killing step that shouldn’t be taken and Republicans are not interested in going that way.'"
That's exactly right. If the economy was such that we couldn't raise taxes last December, certainly isn't any better right now. So it appears that, Snerdley, you may be right. Republicans sound like they're gonna hang tough in there. Now, Dingy Harry "said Republicans were living in a 'fantasy world' and accused them of wanting to force the country to default in order to fulfill their long-held dream of denying Social Security checks to seniors." That's all they've got. Republicans want to keep Social Security checks away from senior citizens now. That's all they've got, it's pathetic. Republicans are sabotaging the economy, and now they don't want Social Security recipients to get their checks. "Republicans don't seem to care about the consequences for middle class Americans," said Dingy Harry. Dingy Harry, you know, there hardly is a middle class left because of you.
Yes, Obama wants to raise taxes on the top 1% in this country who could - really they could - afford to pay 1% more of their income into the US coffers.
Don't get me wrong - I think our tax money is wasted on entitlement programs and stupid studies and programs in foreign countries (millions of dollars spent to teach Chinese prostitutes to not drink on the job. Can you believe that???? Or to teach Africans (in Africa) to wash their genitalia after sex in order to prevent AIDS).
The Republicans feel that there wouldn't be any need to raise taxes at all if all this wasteful spending was stopped, and that may well be true.
But let's just be honest. Especially since that's what the majority of voters in the US think as well - that Republicans don't want taxes raised on the rich.
(It would be interesting to see if the Kennedy family would voluntarily pay more in taxes, and then exhort their fellow millionaires to do likewise. But the super rich - especially those in the political arena always have ways of getting around such things.)
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