Sunday, February 10, 2008

Chris Wallace interviews Bush

Of course it’s hard not to shake your head whenever the idiot President opens his mouth, but this really stood out:

Bush said that the Democrats’ desire to raise taxes on the rich is a waste of time, since the rich can afford good accountants who will figure out how to avoid paying those taxes, and that the middle class will end up getting stuck with the bill (as usual). Which begs the question: why then was it necessary to cut taxes on the rich in 2001 if they’d already figured out how not to pay them? And what does that say about the opaque system of loopholes and deductions that is designed primarily to benefit the rich? It becomes cruelly ironic when you consider that some of these loopholes involve incentives for moving jobs and operations overseas; so not only do the rich get to avoid paying their fair share - a bill the middle class gets stuck with - but they do it partly by being rewarded for eliminating more and more good-paying middle class jobs.

Wake up, Middle Class!! You’re getting simultaneously screwed and stabbed in the back!

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