Liberals like Chris Matthews mock conservatives when they point out that the left uses uber-radical Saul Alinsky’s scorched earth tactics in order to shove their statist agenda down our throats, but here is yet another case in point that shows that is precisely what they are doing. Dan Mitchell of Cato reports that the OECD has produced [...]
I have said many times before that the goal of the pro-tax left is not to raise the dinghies of the poor, but rather to sink the Yachts of the rich. Kay Bell sums it up in her post Taxes as a tool of economic equality (emphasis added): Americans are quite proud of, among other things, [...]
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Greg Mankiw calls the left out on another tax fib in Obama versus Clinton on Tax Policy: One of the common memes about tax policy is that President Obama just wants to return the tax code to where it was during the Clinton years. The problem is, this is just not true. This table from the [...]
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William Jacobson blogs about some very telling comments made by Elizabeth Warren, the ex-Obama administration member who is now seeking the Democrat’s nomination to run against Republican Senator Scott Brown in the 2012 Massachusett’s Senate election: The progressives are in a lather about this video by Warren in which she proclaims an almost perfect theory of why redistribution of wealth must be [...]
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This is quite embarassing. Last week I published a post titled Democrat Senator Frank Lautenberg Says Eliminate the Rich. A commenter named Bob English said I got it wrong. I didn’t take him seriously at first, but then decided to watch the video again. Sure enough, Lautenberg said eliminate the “waste” not eliminate the “rich.” [...]
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RETRACTION: At the prompting of an alert reader I watched the video again and have concluded that Mr. Lautenberg did not say eliminate the “rich”, but rather, eliminate the “waste.” See my post Retraction: Lautenberg Did Not Say Eliminate the Rich, He said Eliminate the Waste. Uber-liberal and uber-rich Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) yesterday said what socialists [...]
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill – In respose to former Labor Secretary Robert Reich’s recent proposal that the tax rate on the rich be raised to 70% the Cato Institute’s Alan Reynolds writing for the [...]
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