{"id":12996,"date":"2013-03-08T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:36:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-08T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T20:36:39","slug":"nancy_pelosi_tax_cuts_are_spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/03\/08\/nancy_pelosi_tax_cuts_are_spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Pelosi: Tax Cuts are Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Listen<\/a>\nRUSH: Yesterday in Washington, Capitol Hill press briefing, Nancy Pelosi…<\/p>\nPELOSI: (whispering) Tax cuts are spending. “Tax expenditures,” they are called. Subsidies for Big Oil, subsidies to send jobs overseas, breaks to send jobs overseas, breaks for corporate jets, they are called tax expenditures. Spending money on tax breaks. And that\u2019s the spending that we must curtail as well.<\/p>\nRUSH: This is another great illustration of how these people think. What she\u2019s saying is that a tax cut equals government spending. Meaning anybody who benefits from a tax cut, tax break, tax loophole, is benefiting from government spending. That is why, by the way, anytime a tax cut is proposed, they start saying, “Well, how are we going to pay for it?” <\/p>\nHave you ever been struck by, “How are we gonna pay for it?” <\/p>\nWhat do you mean, “pay” for it? <\/p>\n\"original\"<\/line>“Well, that\u2019s money we\u2019re losing. We\u2019re spending money on that tax cut. How we gonna recoup it? Where are we gonna get that money?” ‘Cause the government can never do with less. Now, the only way that a tax cut is federal spending is if all money is Washington\u2019s. If they think that all money originates in and is controlled by the government, then everything you have is a result of their spending it and allowing you to have it. They have every dollar. They own it. They are in control of every dollar. And what you earn, you go to your boss, he hires you, you negotiate what your salary is gonna be, the government is actually paying you that, because they\u2019re not taxing it. <\/line><\/p>\nAnything they don\u2019t tax is spending. And that\u2019s how they think. She is being dead serious. We can argue whether she\u2019s an idiot or not, but this is what she really thinks. And she\u2019s not the only one. This is what Democrats think. A tax break, a tax loophole, the mortgage interest deduction, that\u2019s government spending. Any dollar that they don\u2019t get, any dollar that they don\u2019t have, they view it as they are spending it, on you, for your benefit. So when they raise taxes, they\u2019re simply taking some of their money back. They\u2019re not taking anything of yours. <\/p>\nThe rich haven\u2019t been paying their fair share. We need to go back and get some of that money from the rich. This is how they can make the claim that you poor people, the rich came along and took your money when you weren\u2019t looking. The rich got rich on the backs of the poor. This is how they mean it. She really does believe this. And she also believes this. This was December 6th in 2012.<\/p>\n