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RUSH: Here\u2019s Marlon in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Marlon?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hello? Hello?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Marlon, are you there?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Good.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Rush?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: No, but what is your point?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, it seems to be on the news all the time for years and years that it\u2019s not fair where we\u2019re getting the tax money from, and it seems to me that it\u2019s coming from all of us regardless where they collect it. Is there something else to it?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Are you trying to say that whenever they run around talk about taxing the rich it\u2019s actually everybody that pays it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, you\u2019re right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Where do they get their money from, Rush? It doesn\u2019t come from the sky. Since Moses, nothing has come from the sky.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Okay?<\/p>\n
RUSH: What you\u2019re saying is the government doesn\u2019t have a dime until they take it or print it or borrow it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, the… Right. Okay, take the oil companies. Where do they get their money? So if you take all the taxes from the oil companies, they don\u2019t bring more out of the sky and they didn\u2019t get it out of the sky. They got it from us to start with, and they gotta keep getting it from us.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Right.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Remember that congressman or senator saying, “There\u2019s too much consumin\u2019 going on”?<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, it was Ernest Hollings.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. If we\u2019re alive and breathing then we gotta be the one that\u2019s paying the taxes. Is that too simple? Why can\u2019t they just return the question every time and say, “If you want to tax the oil companies,” just say, “Where do they get their money from?”<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. I see what you mean. What you\u2019re saying is everything ends up at the consumer.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Everything is paid for by us. In other words, the oil companies don\u2019t pay taxes.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. They\u2019re gonna get it from us.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s right. Their taxes are built into the costs that they charge all along the line for their products.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You\u2019re exactly right. Well, you\u2019re just illustrating the Democrat —<\/p>\n
CALLER: Nobody —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, no, you\u2019re just illustrating the Democrat tax policy is all class envy. It\u2019s not about substantive economics.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (silence)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I guess he\u2019s dazzled, overwhelmed beyond being able to respond. That happens to me frequently. I don\u2019t know about you. Patrick in Nashville, Tennessee, hi and welcome to the program.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir. My comment is just this: The number one problem with the US economy is simply the people and businesses have no confidence in Barack Obama.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n
CALLER: The handwriting is on the wall: He has been weighed in the scales, and he has been found lacking. Thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: There you go! Brevity is the soul of wit.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I want to focus on the fair share. I\u2019m curious, if the federal budget were in balance today, I\u2019m curious if the wealthy would be paying their fair share. If we were in balance and the top tax rate, marginal rate, 35%, would the wealthy be paying their fair share in your mind? If so, then what would be fair for sticking them with the bill that the president and Congress run up?<\/p>\n
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What does this fair share actually mean to you people? What is the president\u2019s obligation to fair share? Does he have a share? I mean, meaning does he have an obligation to list programs to be eliminated to balance the budget? Does he have an obligation to chip in and pay for some of this spending that he\u2019s writing checks for that he can\u2019t cash? Let\u2019s define what\u2019s fair from everyone in the game. I mean it\u2019s not fair. It\u2019s totally unfair to waste money on pie-in-the-sky green technology. Nothing fair about that. It isn\u2019t fair to pay off union political foot soldiers. It isn\u2019t fair to pay off cronies like General Electric. It\u2019s not fair to not publish a budget for over 800 days. It isn\u2019t fair to go out and lie about the financial realities of Obamacare.<\/p>\n
The Congressional Budget Office has a whole new way of looking at Obamacare since it was passed, and it isn\u2019t fair to pretend it isn\u2019t so. It isn\u2019t fair to pretend that you, the president, have nothing to do with the trillions of dollars in debt piled up during your term in office, thanks to laws you either voted for as a senator or signed as president and supported as both. Why do we have to pay for it? How come all of a sudden you go nuts, you and the Democrat Party go nuts with all this spending, and how come all of a sudden Americans aren\u2019t paying their fair share? How does that work? I mean intellectually, how does that work? What is our fair share? I mean it isn\u2019t fair to shut down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. It isn\u2019t fair to refuse to develop America\u2019s oil, gas, and coal natural resources just as it isn\u2019t fair to deny Americans high paying energy sector jobs because you aren\u2019t drilling for any of these energy sources. What\u2019s fair?<\/p>\n
What\u2019s fair about shutting down the domestic oil business, and natural gas business, and then telling people, because of the resulting lack of revenue from income, that somehow they aren\u2019t paying their fair share? Passing the buck isn\u2019t fair, which is what you do. Billing taxpayers for campaign bus trips, taking vacations instead of even pretending to solve problems, that you say, Mr. President, are at a crisis level. It isn\u2019t fair to confiscate private property when the president screws up. But that\u2019s what happens. Piling up deficits and then accusing the wealthy of wrongdoing and greed? Uncontrolled irresponsible spending and then after it\u2019s all done somehow Americans aren\u2019t paying their fair share? Lying about temperatures around the world, lying about climate change and global warming. That\u2019s more than unfair.<\/p>\n
State-Controlled Media acting as the department of propaganda for Barack Obama. That\u2019s not fair. Political libel aimed at people like Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann. Nothing fair about that. You liberals, all you can talk about is fair share here and fair share there. You create all of these problems, then you run around and say the American aren\u2019t paying their fair share and they\u2019re not sacrificing enough. The bottom line is there\u2019s nothing fair about who and what Barack Obama represents. This subject of fairness, if you want to talk about fairness, I\u2019m open to it any day \u2019cause I think it\u2019s one of the most maligned, misguided, misused concepts out there, because it actually doesn\u2019t exist. That\u2019s how journalists get around the whole notion that they\u2019re not biased. “We\u2019re fair.” No, you\u2019re not. Not in the slightest.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Scott in Los Angeles. Hello, sir. Welcome to Open Line Friday on Thursday.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You bet.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: That\u2019s an excellent point, it\u2019s an excellent point. And the federal tax is static.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n
RUSH: But state gasoline taxes change, different from state to state. And some states show taxes, but most of them don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Right. Yeah, they don\u2019t list the taxes that we have to pay to the federal government for what the breakdown is.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I saw this the other day. It\u2019s impossible to do on radio. It would take me four shows, just the state and local taxes in Florida. It is mind-boggling the taxes people pay. Nickel and dime stuff that\u2019s in the phone bill, that\u2019s in the utility bill, it\u2019s all over the place. Taxes are like a cancer out there. And the idea that we are not paying our fair share is so absurd. The problem is, or the fault is the irresponsibility of the people managing all of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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