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RUSH: Now, I was under the impression, because I listened to Senator Obama during the campaign, that he\u2019s only going to raise taxes on the rich, \u2019cause they\u2019ve got it. They don\u2019t need it. They have more than they need. They can afford it. So he needs to raise taxes on the rich and cut taxes on the, quote, unquote, ‘middle class.\u2019 So he wants economic recovery to bubble up from the bottom or whatever, which is very tough to do when you\u2019re at the bottom and you\u2019re broke. I don\u2019t know how you bubble anything up when you\u2019re broke, but that\u2019s not the point. I have a story here from AP-Obama, and it\u2019s about three Colorado ski resorts being ‘forced\u2019 to lay off workers. (gasping) It\u2019s from the Durango Herald. We read the Durango Herald every day here. It\u2019s part of our show prep rotation. (laughing) It might embarrass them so much they go out of business. <\/p>\n

‘This ski season is shaping up to be the worst in years, said a Canadian ski-resort company that has announced it has laid off workers across a dozen resorts, including three in Colorado. Vancouver-based Intrawest Corp. hasn\u2019t said exactly how many workers it let go, but company officials say the weak economy is squeezing the ski business.\u2019 Now, who is it that goes out to Colorado and skis? No, it\u2019s not the poor. The poor are working in the hotels. The poor are working in the restaurants, the, quote, unquote, poor. The poor are working at the ski resorts where the rich are not going because the economy is cutting into their disposable income and they think that they\u2019ve got tax increases coming. <\/p>\n

‘Colorado\u2019s Steamboat Ski &amp; Resort, for example, is more than three hours by car from Denver. Because of that, most visitors fly in and stay several days, while smaller resorts closer to big cities have an easier time surviving a poor economy. ‘They\u2019re not as dependent on out-of- state and international visitors,\u2019 Dave Belin, director at Boulder-based research firm RRC Associates, told the Rocky Mountain News. In a survey of skiers conducted online last month, RRC found that most skiers planned to ski as often as last year. But they planned to cut back in other ways — on lodging, lessons and other extras such as traveling a long way to get to a ski mountain.\u2019 See, I thought tax increases and other trivial income killers amounted to chump change to wealthy Americans. But this is what I told you, and this is the main reason I said we gotta support Senator McCain, in fact, because of his tax policy was right. <\/p>\n

Every time you hear Obama or some Democrat talking about raising taxes on the rich to help the little guy, it\u2019s the little guy that gets shafted, and this ski resort story is a classic example. So we have to take the wealthy down a notch or two. How could that hurt anybody? Why, that couldn\u2019t hurt anybody! We gotta take the wealthy down a notch or two. They give up a little chump change, Obama can spend it on welfare checks for those who don\u2019t pay income taxes, and life is good for everybody! Except raising taxes is not chump change to rich people. That was just Obama shooting his mouth off. It turns out when the wealthy are pummeled by bad economic news of any kind they pull back, too. Nothing is chump change, and so now they\u2019re going to visit ski resorts less. And when they, the people that pay the freight by going skiing go less or don\u2019t stay overnight in hotels and so forth the ski resorts, three of them owned by a Canadian firm, are laying off the little guy, the guy who\u2019s supposed to benefit from tax increases on the rich. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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