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RUSH: Thomas in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, your turn. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, sir. Thank you very much for taking my call.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Great honor to be talking to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to clarify something. I think it was last week, two weeks ago, you had a gentleman who called in and was talking about ‘sacrifices\u2019 and ‘the rich don\u2019t make sacrifices, and you don\u2019t make sacrifices,\u2019 and I wanted to set the record straight that they do. And their sacrifices, even though it might not be giving more money to welfare for people to just get money for doing nothing, they can\u2019t afford to hire as many people as they want to. So now you have three people doing the job of the four; or they can\u2019t afford to go on the road trip to go out to these job fairs to set up their stands. There are all kinds of sacrifices being made. Just because it\u2019s not being made to the government is where some people are having issue \u2019cause they\u2019re not getting their free hand-me-outs.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s good thinking. I remember what you\u2019re talking about. There was some really agitated leftist that called last Tuesday<\/a> and really, really got on my case for not making any ‘sacrifices.\u2019 What was the…? Snerdley, what was the context of the discussion? What was he talking about? Was he talking about what\u2019s going on in Wisconsin? Was it the unions and pensions and so forth? The rich aren\u2019t…? (interruption) Yeah. Okay. ‘The rich don\u2019t make sacrifices,\u2019 and I remember I said to him that I don\u2019t even think that way. I don\u2019t believe in ‘making sacrifice.\u2019 I don\u2019t. I refuse to accept almost every premise the left puts forth, and whenever they talk about ‘sacrificing,\u2019 I know what they mean. <\/p>\n

They want the rich to give money away. They want the rich to admit that it\u2019s unfair that they are rich, and just give their wealth away. They want the rich to make themselves poor or average or middle class. Until that happens, they\u2019re just a bunch of greedy SOBs. I got an e-mail after the segment. The guy said, ‘You know, Rush,\u2019 and I made the point that I had way too much class to say this to the guy: That I probably pay more in taxes in one year than he will earn in his entire worthless life. But he will not look at that as ‘sacrifice.\u2019 He looks at that as sacrifice, ‘You wouldn\u2019t be giving it away if they weren\u2019t making you give it away! If they weren\u2019t taking it from you you wouldn\u2019t give it away,\u2019 and you are damn right!<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re talking about the government and all that wasteful stuff they do with it? In fact, I probably give more to charity than that guy who called last week will make in his entire life, not just paying tax. But that really wasn\u2019t the point. The whole point was this notion of ‘sacrifice,\u2019 and that whole idea as it\u2019s come to be defined is something that I reject. It\u2019s because it\u2019s all about ‘feeling pain.\u2019 I like what Walter Williams says about this. He says, ‘What\u2019s Bill Gates gotta give anything back for? How many people has he made millionaires already? How many jobs has he created? Bill Gates doesn\u2019t have to give anything back! Nobody\u2019s gotta give anything back except the people who have stolen from us. They need to give it back,\u2019 and I totally, wholeheartedly concur — and I would include, among the thieves, several who have written the tax code.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: The New York Times has this wacko editorial today about the need for the rich to ‘sacrifice,\u2019 and Michael Moore says that the wealth of the rich is not even theirs, that the country\u2019s not broke. You just need the rich to sacrifice and give away their money and everything would be fine and dandy. So… (interruption) No, he didn\u2019t divest his, but that\u2019s the latest template now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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