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This is not anything but wealth redistribution, folks. It\u2019s the same old thing it\u2019s always been. He\u2019s trying to couch this in “fairness.” He\u2019s playing off class envy again. Another same old page from the tired, worn out Democrat playbook, and it\u2019s a shotgun approach. He thinks that more and more people are going to be enthused by this than would be hurt by it. And that probably may be right, but there is a higher degree of understanding and sophistication today among average people about who it is that provides jobs in this country, and one of the things that you have to say…<\/line>I want to continue to say this: If you are somebody, and I know you\u2019re out there, and you know who you are, and there\u2019s no sense, you know — I can\u2019t see you, but I know you\u2019re there. You know I\u2019m talking about you. When I say if there are any of you out there happy about this because you don\u2019t make 200 grand a year, you know who you are, and I want to say one thing to you. And don\u2019t look around. Don\u2019t act nervous. Nobody knows I\u2019m talking to you but you. I just want to ask you one question. <\/line>Let\u2019s say that you resent people who make more money than you do, let\u2019s say you resent people who earn more than 200 grand and you love the idea that John Kerry is going to confiscate more of their wealth to the same tune that Bill Clinton did. Go ahead and feel that way, but let me just ask you a question. I want to know how it\u2019s going to improve your life. Imagine across the street from you your neighbor is one of these people that earns $200,000 a year or more and is going to be paying these new taxes. Besides you sitting there and feeling, “Good! Let \u2019em find out what it\u2019s like,” how does it help you when somebody else has to pay more in taxes? <\/line>Now the honest answer is, it doesn\u2019t help you at all. It doesn\u2019t mean anything to the substance of your life. Zilch, zero, nada. The question you ought to be asking is, “I want to make $200,000 a year someday, and would I want to pay more taxes? Would I want to be hated for it? Would I want to be resented because I\u2019ve worked hard enough to make that kind of money?” That\u2019s what you ought to be asking yourself. You ought to ask yourself, “Why am I focused on this? What good is all this energy doing me? What good is all this energy doing my family to sit here and be gleeful and happy over the pain somebody else is going to suffer? What good does it do you?”<\/line><\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t do you any good, and that\u2019s exactly why John Kerry and other Democrats are doing this. They want you to feel resentful. They want you to feel good at the pain of others. They want you to not feel somebody\u2019s pain. They want you to be gleeful at somebody\u2019s pain. And that\u2019s what this is all about, because they know there\u2019s not enough money in this group to balance budgets or to close deficits or anything of the sort. Not with this kind of tax. This is simply a ploy to reach you emotionally and to reach the baser elements of your nature, folks. That\u2019s why this is so insidious. The Democrats, who claim to have love and compassion monopolized, claim to care about people, are playing off your resentment and envy. <\/line> They want you angry. They want you fed up. They want you feeling like you\u2019re getting even with somebody, when somebody you don\u2019t even know gets their taxes increased. Meanwhile, you should at the same time start thinking about the economic impact of it, ought to understand what happens when government takes more of anybody\u2019s money. Ask yourself what government has ever done to spur the economy, what government has done to create jobs for you, what government does that makes any of this that is this economic engine happen, and the answer is nothing. <\/line>All government can do is impede it, particularly with this kind of policy, raising taxes. Ask yourself why our economy is not in worse shape than it is. Imagine all that we\u2019ve been through. We came out of a recession; we had the 9\/11 attacks; we ought to be facing unemployment far worse than what it is. Do you realize unemployment today, unemployment today is the same level it was with Bill Clinton running for reelection in 1996? Were you all crying about unemployment back then and recessions? No, you weren\u2019t. Now, I know (Kerry) doesn\u2019t have to be president to raise people\u2019s taxes. He can do it from the Senate. <\/line>He can ask anybody else to do it. But the fact is, he\u2019s out promising to do it as president, and he\u2019s using it as one of the cornerstones of his campaign. You know, so much of this, I said last week, “We\u2019ve had this election before.” We had a Bush versus a northeastern liberal, Massachusetts liberal. We had this election in 1988, and we\u2019re having it all over again. We\u2019ve got elements of previous Democrat campaign. We\u2019ve got Mondale running again now promising to raise taxes. This party is so stuck in the mud, this party is so stuck in the old days. They haven\u2019t modernized, don\u2019t know how to modernize, and it\u2019s going to come back and bite \u2019em, or us, one or the other.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT <\/line><\/p>\n

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