{"id":13777,"date":"2012-12-06T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:32:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-12-06T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T17:32:34","slug":"obama_wants_to_tax_the_rich_for_revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/12\/06\/obama_wants_to_tax_the_rich_for_revenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Wants to Tax the Rich for Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: So late in the program yesterday<\/a>, we had a guy call who wanted to raise taxes on everybody a hundred percent, on the rich, just make the rich pay for it and finally show everybody what the disaster is. And as you recall, I threatened to fire Snerdley if he ever gave me another one of those calls, and Snerdley said, “I hear you.” And the reason I got so agitated at that is we\u2019re in the middle of the disaster. We are in it. <\/p>\n

Folks, we\u2019re gonna have to realize, to you and me it\u2019s a disaster, but to a majority of people who voted in the country, it isn\u2019t. Some people want to make sure that everybody realizes that the way the country\u2019s being run now is or will become a disaster. One of the ways of illustrating that for these guys — and, by the way, it\u2019s a growing sentiment. I have done some research, and there are people out there, “Let\u2019s just cave and raise taxes on the rich.” The theory is, make the rich elitist liberals pay a price for voting for Obama. <\/p>\n

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That\u2019s the theory. On paper it sounds good. Tax Warren Buffett, tax all these Hollywood people, make \u2019em pay for it. There are two things, however, that need to be said. I understand, as I say, the energy, passion, sentiment behind that, but once, folks, you do that, how do you get that back? I don\u2019t care whose money you take away, once you start down that road, do you think government\u2019s ever gonna give it back, I mean in your lifetime? One of the things that the left has always done, the Democrats have always done, is secure votes by making their voters think that we are gonna be punished. Raising taxes on the rich, for example, is exactly the example. <\/p>\n

So Obama and the Democrats say they\u2019re gonna raise taxes on the rich, and union workers, middle class, lower middle class Democrats say, “Yeah, yeah, you show \u2019em.” Their lives don\u2019t change, their taxes don\u2019t change, their income doesn\u2019t go up just because you raise taxes on the rich. In fact, the more you do that, the worse off the little guy is gonna be. But the little guy nevertheless is happy. The Democrat Party\u2019s made up of a bunch of people who are made happy via the suffering of others. Not improvement in their own lives, but with the suffering of others. <\/p>\n

The Democrats have made, in terms of my life, a lifetime policy out of this. Revenge. And Obama even said it. <\/a> What does he mean when he says, get your revenge, vote? Take it out on the rich. Take it out on the successful. Take it out on the people that have more than you do. I\u2019ll help you. I\u2019ll punish \u2019em. I\u2019ll raise taxes on \u2019em. Vote for me, and I\u2019ll make sure that you feel better \u2019cause those people are gonna have it stuck to \u2019em. And people do. They don\u2019t care. They don\u2019t care that their lives aren\u2019t improved any, significantly. They get off on the fact that other people are being hurt, they think. <\/p>\n

So now we got people on our side calling and suggesting the same thing. “Let\u2019s just make sure that they pay a price for supporting Obama.” And I understand that. I understand the emotion behind that. The problem is, in Warren Buffett\u2019s case, you could raise the income tax rate to a hundred percent and you\u2019re gonna be collecting taxes on about $120,000 of income. The rest of his income is not earned, so to speak. It\u2019s dividend, capital gains. He\u2019s got his wealth. You\u2019re going to have to institute a wealth tax to go get people like Buffett and many moguls and many executives. They\u2019ve insured themselves.<\/p>\n

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You have to understand, the income tax is to prevent you from accruing wealth. It\u2019s not gonna punish the truly rich who are propping up Democrats, the truly rich mogul, the truly rich CEO, the truly wealthy Wall Street tycoon. Warren Buffett is not paid 38, 40 million a year, whatever, billion dollars, whatever he makes. Somebody is not paying him that. His investments are throwing off that income, at a 15% tax rate. So you could raise capital gains, maybe, but then you would have all kinds of negative impact on investment, and maybe that\u2019s what some of you want. But they\u2019ll still be rich at the end of the day, at least compared to you and everybody else. <\/p>\n

At the same time, you\u2019ve endorsed the notion of punishing the rich, no matter who they are, liberal, conservative, Republican, what have you. And then there\u2019s also the “but we gotta show \u2019em what it\u2019s like.” I\u2019ve been hearing this since I sat down behind this microphone. Let the Democrats win. I first heard it in 1992 with Clinton. Let Clinton win. People calling, “Let Clinton win. Let people see what kind of disaster we\u2019re headed for.” Well, we\u2019re in it. We\u2019re in it. And the people that you want to be impacted by the disaster, to the point that they change their vote, guess what? They\u2019ve got however many weeks of unemployment that they need and want, and more if they demand it. They have their flat-screen TVs. They have their cars. They\u2019ve got their cell phones, in many cases an Obama phone.<\/a> They\u2019ve got their 250 minutes a month. As far as they\u2019re concerned, there isn\u2019t any pain. Not real pain. <\/p>\n

So I said yesterday…<\/p>\n

Some people said, “Well, you were really, really mean yesterday.”<\/p>\n

“What do you mean, ‘mean\u2019?”<\/p>\n

“Cutting off unemployment at 13 weeks.”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, it sounds mean today. I know. ‘Thirteen weeks, three months, we\u2019ll take care of you and then you\u2019re on your own.'”<\/p>\n

“But, Rush! But, Rush! There aren\u2019t any jobs to be had.”<\/p>\n

“You know, demand creates a lot of things.”<\/p>\n

When a lot of people need work, when there are a lot of people that want work, there can be psychological shifts that can actually impact change, policy, and the direction the country\u2019s going. It wasn\u2019t that long ago that 13 weeks unemployment was a godsend. It was considered a great benefit. Ninety-nine weeks? You ever add that up? That\u2019s approaching two years, and it\u2019s been shown the longer you don\u2019t work the harder it is to get back in the mode, and the longer you don\u2019t work the harder it is to keep skills up.<\/p>\n

And 99 weeks plus, that\u2019s Obama\u2019s ID, the Democrat Party\u2019s ID. They\u2019re all for that. They\u2019ll forgive your student loans, or at least they\u2019ll dangle that carrot in front of you. Now, all this having been said… And you probably have heard, more and more people saying, “Let\u2019s just go ahead and cave. Let\u2019s let Obama have his taxes on the rich.”<\/p>\n

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In fact, grab sound bite number two. The media is hyperventilating here over Obama and Boehner speaking on the phone, and then Stephanopoulos and… Actually, grab number three, because this is George Stephanopoulos and Jonathan Karl, and they\u2019re just overjoyed. They can\u2019t contain themselves. The GOP is conceding that taxes on the rich must go up. It\u2019s from Good Morning America today.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: We\u2019re starting to see some Republicans concede that tax rates on the wealthy, at least, are going to have to go up. But the president has another rock-hard bottom line, and that is an increase in the US debt limit as well.<\/p>\n

KARL: Yeah, that\u2019s right. Uh, Republicans — even, privately, top Republicans — say those tax rates are gonna almost certainly go up.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, yeah, so happy. They\u2019re just so happy. “The tax rates are gonna have to go up! Yep, yep, that\u2019s exactly right,” and they\u2019re thrilled by it. You can ask yourself why all day long. The answer is very simple. The Republican Party is in the crosshairs. The unity of the House Republicans is in the crosshairs. What Obama and the Democrats are trying to do is blow it all up. Politics! They\u2019re trying to wipe out the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

They aren\u2019t interested in us liking them.<\/p>\n

They aren\u2019t interested in getting along with us.<\/p>\n

They aren\u2019t interested in collegiality or conviviality or fun and games.<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t want us around in any significant numbers to cause them any problems.<\/p>\n

So the best way to do that is to get us to compromise on our core, and they get excited when they think they\u2019re making progress in that regard. Now, back to the raising-taxes-on-the-rich business. The simple fact of the matter is, it\u2019s happened. Three states now, when you add it all up, are going to have a marginal top tax rate of over 50%. California, Hawaii, and one other. Actually a lot of them are close.<\/p>\n

California, Hawaii, and it might be New York. That would be the natural thing to assume. Here are the details. Top states… Oh, by the way, the vast majority of these people are in blue states, the vast majority of the people who are going to be paying over 50%. You\u2019re getting what you want to a certain extent because Obama is raising taxes on his voters. Most of these people are in blue states.<\/p>\n

For example, the top states with the most households at $250,000 and above are, in order: California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Virginia, Washington, DC. Only, Virginia (and that\u2019s even a toss-up) is not a blue state. The rest of these states are dead blue. The top metro areas, cities, with the most $250,000 households: Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, San Jose, Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

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The states with the highest average housing values and mortgages, meaning the most expensive as well: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco. The states with the highest percentage of people taking itemized deductions (which are soon to go): California, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Washington. So those of you who want taxes raised on the rich, you\u2019re getting your dream. Obama\u2019s raising taxes on his voters.<\/p>\n

His voters in California voted to raise taxes on themselves, folks!<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called Proposition 30 in California. Some dummkopf entrepreneur has just now figuring out what happened. It\u2019s too late. In California, Hawaii, and I think New York — three states — people at $200,000 and $250,000 a year are now gonna be paying over 50%. Do you know what the top marginal income tax rate in California? It\u2019s 13.3% added to the federal, which is going to 40%. It\u2019s 39.6%. Add 13 points, it\u2019s plus 40.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re not talking Medicare, Social Security yet.<\/p>\n

Marginal income tax rates are over 50% in California, Hawaii, and New York. These other states are very, very close. Is this what Obama wants? It would appear so. This is what he\u2019s angling for. You take a look at the Republican offer of raising $800 billion. How has Boehner offered it? <\/a>Eliminating deductions, eliminating write-offs and loopholes, and all that. “Loophole.”<\/p>\n

Anyway, the Republicans do not want rates to go up.<\/p>\n

The reason they say they\u2019re holding fast on rates (and this is true) is because so many small-business people who are organized under Subchapter S corporation rules file their business taxes on their personal form. And the marginal income tax rate, if it\u2019s left alone … This is theoretical, but it\u2019s pretty applicable. If the marginal rate goes up, those people are harmed. It\u2019s money off the top.<\/p>\n

It will restrict the growth of their business. It will take away disposable income that they can invest in either themselves, in the families or in their businesses. It will restrict their ability to hire people. However, if you leave the marginal rates alone (which the Republicans want to do), but concede, “Okay, we\u2019ll get rid of the deductions: The charitable donations, the mortgage interest, all that stuff,” it is said that that will have the least impact on small business.<\/p>\n

Obama, by the way… You can raise the money. You could get $800 billion over a period of time by eliminating the deductions, and Obama\u2019s opposing that. Obama wants both. He wants the rate up and the elimination of deductions. People are saying, “Wait a minute. If you get the money that you say you want for deficit reduction and all this…?” It\u2019s crap, but, “If you get the money that you say you want with the elimination of deductions, why not take it?”<\/p>\n

The point is, it\u2019s not the money that Obama wants, folks. If there were a way… I\u2019m gonna come up with somewhat of an extreme example to illustrate, but it\u2019s right on the money. If there were a magic way to legitimately raise — not print or borrow, but legitimately raise — raise a trillion dollars that could be handed to Obama right now that did not require raising taxes or eliminating loopholes, he would not take it.<\/p>\n

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The trillion dollars, the $1.6 trillion, the $1.2 trillion, the $800 billion, whatever the number is is not relevant. What\u2019s relevant to Obama is inflicting the damage. Now, that may be too extreme. That may make you nervous to hear me describe Obama\u2019s desire that way. So let me change “inflict the damage” to Obama “wants to punish.” There\u2019s no other way to describe it!<\/p>\n

You give him a trillion dollars without raising taxes, and it won\u2019t count. He\u2019s going to have those taxes raised. He wants the rates up. He\u2019s not gonna compromise on it. He wants the rates up. He wants the deductions gone because of the impact it will have. It\u2019s not about raising money. Remember what he said about capital gains. When it was pointed out to him that lowering the capital gains rate increased the amount of revenue to Washington (this was in 2007 or 2008), Obama said, “I don\u2019t care. It\u2019s a fairness issue for me.”<\/p>\n

Fairness.<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t fair that investment income was taxed so low. He didn\u2019t care about the revenue being generated. You all think that we raise taxes or levy taxes to raise money to run the government efficiently. That\u2019s not what it\u2019s about anymore. Not with this guy, and not with these people in the Democrat Party. It\u2019s not about that. There are many things going on here. One of them is to redistribute wealth and take it from people who have it, and then eliminate\/decimate the Republican Party.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where are we.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what going over the cliff<\/a> or not going over the cliff is really all about.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, to illustrate. Jay Carney, while we were talking to Senator DeMint and Ed Feulner <\/a>at Heritage, Jay Carney was briefing the media. And Ed Henry, the White House reporter, said, “Jay, a moment ago you said it\u2019s ‘frightening\u2019 for Republicans to bring back the debt ceiling again and raise the specter of the nation defaulting. Isn\u2019t it frightening for the American people to hear the Treasury secretary say that we\u2019re going off the cliff?”<\/p>\n

CARNEY: The president of the United States will not sign a bill that extends tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires, or for those making more than $250,000 a year. This is an issue that the American people understand, they are very clear about, and — if public surveys are to be believed — are supportive of the president on. We can\u2019t afford it. He has made this very clear. What he has also made clear is that Republicans in the House could act today to give tax cuts for 98% of the American people. They have not, because they insist that tax cuts for the top 2% are more important.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What did he just say we can\u2019t “afford”? The president\u2019s spokesman just said: We can\u2019t afford to let people keep the same amount that they\u2019re earning now. We need more from them. We can\u2019t “afford” it. We can\u2019t “afford” to let high income earners continue as they are. The nation can\u2019t afford that, and the American people agree: This is all about punishing the rich. And, as Carney says, that\u2019s what the American people voted for. They support the president on this. We\u2019re not gonna extend the Bush tax rates. We can\u2019t afford that. The American people voted to punish everybody who earns $250,000 or more, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to do.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here\u2019s Steve in Rochester, New Hampshire, as we start on the phones. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It\u2019s an honor to talk to you. I\u2019ve been listening to you since I was in high school back in the late 1980s.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow, I appreciate that. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am a retired or former history teacher up here in New Hampshire, and I just want to say, first of all, that I completely agree with everything you\u2019ve said regarding taxes and the Democratic Party since the beginning of your show. One of the cases that I always taught and we always taught students was McCulloch v. Maryland, which occurred in 1819. The federal government chartered the Bank of the United States, it was a federally chartered bank, and the federally chartered Bank of the United States tried to open a branch in Maryland. Maryland wanted nothing to do with it, so they put a huge tax on it to try to get rid of it. It went to court, and the chief justice at the time, John Marshall, ruled in part that the power to tax is the power to destroy, and they tossed the case out. And that\u2019s something that I think a lot of people just aren\u2019t picking up on, as far as what the Democrats are saying.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I must respectfully disagree to an extent. I think the low-information voters we talk about, in their own way, are very sophisticated. I think we\u2019re gonna have to grow up. We\u2019re gonna have to admit to ourselves that they do indeed understand the power to tax is the power to destroy, and that\u2019s what they\u2019re supporting. That\u2019s what they\u2019re voting for. They are voting to raise taxes on the rich because they want them punished.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Therefore they believe they can be punished by raising taxes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So it\u2019s safe to say that they do want the power to destroy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly. And I think they fully realize, the Democrats fully understand that the taxing power is a power to destroy, if they want to use it as such, which they do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes. And by the way, this is not new to Obama.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Bill Clinton, every Democrat since FDR has been running against tax cuts, has been running on class envy against the rich. You and I just happen to be alive at that moment in time where it has finally broken through and a majority of people who vote, will vote for that and agree with it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, it\u2019s something that people obviously need to be reeducated about. The Founding Fathers certainly understood that. They were so fearful of the taxing power. I mean, if you look at the arguments that went on before the Civil War over tariffs, whether we should raise tariffs or lower tariffs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Never before, though, never before in American history has an elected government sought to impoverish its citizens for the advancement of its political objectives. We now live in a moment in time where that\u2019s happened.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: An elected administration has, via policies, sought to impoverish millions of citizens and then support them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For the express purpose —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Of maintaining their base.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Maintaining and growing it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then inflicting harm on the Republicans, growing government, empowering themselves, all of that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hm-hm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And of course these are the people about whom it is said are the most compassionate and the most tolerant, the most loving, and the most understanding. They in fact are the most damaging when you get right down to it. They have succeeded in teaching people that the power to tax is the power to destroy, and they now have people voting for them on the premise that they want the Democrats they\u2019re electing to do that. It\u2019s their fault. It\u2019s their fault that there\u2019s a recession. It\u2019s their fault that we\u2019re in debt, and they\u2019ve got too much money. They\u2019ve got more than they need. This has been said and repeated by millions of Democrats for decades now, that whole premise that you\u2019ve got more than you need.<\/p>\n

For the longest time I\u2019ve heard people say, “How come Bill Gates and Warren Buffett vote Democrat?” Very simple. If you have the kind of money they do or if you have the money a Hollywood mogul does, you don\u2019t want people beating down your door to get your money. So you state publicly that you think you\u2019ve got too much. It\u2019s how the Kennedys did it. You state publicly that you think the rich have had too big a ride, the rich are benefiting from a rigged game, a stacked deck. There need to be higher taxes, just needs to be, it\u2019s unfair. In the process you inoculate yourself from becoming a target, because you\u2019re on the side of the oppressed, and you are not blamed for taking money that they would have had. You are permitted to have your money, as long as you are perceived to be on their side. And that\u2019s what these wise, smart liberal businesspeople learned some time ago. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is Chris in Charleston, South Carolina. Hi, sir. Great to have you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: About one month before the election I was reading an article that said that people making $250,000 and more, their taxes would go up, and my very first thought was, “Well, thank God I don\u2019t make that much.” But then my immediate second thought was, “I live in America. There\u2019s no reason that I should be having that as my first thought. It\u2019s a completely foreign thought that we shouldn\u00c2\u2019t be having.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s a natural. No, wait a minute. You know, this is an excellent point because it is a natural thought that everybody has, and that\u2019s what the Democrats play on. It is entirely natural to give thanks you\u2019re not a target.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s exactly right. I mean, I feel like, “Wow, thank God I dodged that,” but that\u2019s ten years ago or more, when I started a business. I do have a small business, and so if that kind of thinking is creeping into my thinking, I\u2019m very concerned. What about younger people? It\u2019s not gonna creep in. It\u2019s gonna be their first thought and only thought. And what about future entrepreneurs, people like Steve Jobs? I mean, I don\u2019t see how you foster creativity if you feel like, “I don\u2019t want to be a target.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: The whole premise of raising taxes on the rich is to have the 98% cheer it on that they\u2019re not part of the 2%. That\u2019s the whole premise of it. You can\u2019t separate this from the class envy aspect. You\u2019re quite mature to pull back and say, “Wait a minute. How…?” The real question is, let\u2019s say that you are nowhere near that threshold, Chris. You don\u2019t have a small business.<\/p>\n

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You just earn whatever you earn. You\u2019re nowhere near it. You get the news that people of $250,000 or higher are gonna get a tax increase, and let\u2019s say you cheer it. The real question should be, “Wait a minute. How does that make my life better? Materially. I mean, is it enough that I feel good that somebody\u2019s getting stuck?” Because that\u2019s what\u2019s being sold.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That kind of thought is so foreign to me. Like, I think of people that make millions of dollars, and, you know, I think, “Good for them.” I don\u2019t… I have simple needs. I don\u2019t need millions of dollars. I get to do what I want to do. But I don\u2019t even understand this thinking.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well —<\/p>\n

CALLER: This punitive attitude.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me give you something else to think about then, because there\u2019s another aspect of this that is also pretty insidious. Go back to your original thought. You gave thanks that you\u2019re not in that bracket, and then there are some people who then… Because this is a subtle way to discourage people from being ambitious.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not only that, but you give thanks, I guess, to the government for not punishing you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and for giving you a way to not be punished — i.e., don\u2019t become that successful.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Don\u2019t compete. Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the insidious part. It\u2019s discouragement. It\u2019s a subtle form of discouraging effort and success by telling people, “You\u2019ll be left alone. You won\u2019t be targeted. You\u2019ll not be said to be the problem.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019ll just be a face in the crowd. You just go along and you\u2019re gonna be okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly, and this technique has been used throughout history to subjugate whole peoples.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what the Republicans are not making clear to anyone. They\u2019re really not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t… (sigh) Jeez, I don\u2019t know. The way we\u2019re discussing things here, I don\u2019t know. Are you saying it would be great if you heard some elected Republicans go to a microphone and talk about things like you and I are discussing them?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I would. I\u2019d feel like someone else thinks like I do, like someone in a position of authority.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, you have to know this before you can talk about it. You have to believe it. I think it\u2019s one of the problems that we face when we look around for conservatism in leadership. There aren\u2019t a whole lot of people that really can explain it, Chris, that are elected. There are a few, and look how they stand out. Marco Rubio, Jack Kemp, Paul Ryan, take your pick. They\u2019re few, but the ones that can, they\u2019re stars. You would think that would be infectious.<\/p>\n

I think right now what\u2019s happening is everybody\u2019s caught up in the minutia of all this. Everybody\u2019s caught up in the, “Well, if we\u2019ll give you $800 billion, here, with deductions and loopholes.” They\u2019re not even thinking philosophically. Everybody\u2019s got their green eye shades on here. The Democrats don\u2019t, but they want everyone to think they do. “We\u2019ve got our green eye shades on and we\u2019ve got our accountants on the case, because that\u2019s what we think the American people are paying attention to.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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