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RUSH: Tom in Maple Grove, Minnesota, you\u2019re next, and it\u2019s great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I just have a general comment on this health care bill. It gets passed, I\u2019m afraid that the language that they use to write these bills is so vague and filled with loopholes. Looking down the road, what happens when lawyers and liberal activist judges start getting involved?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, liberal lawyers have written this, and so forth. What do you mean?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re going to start finding a whole host of things in this bill that aren\u2019t apparent right now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, you mean when people take elements of it to court?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Down the road a ways.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t know. See, that\u2019s one of the great unanswered questions is: Where can you sue? I think I read something earlier in the week, I don\u2019t think there is an appeals process here. I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s going to end up in court. I guess it could. I mean, if it does, you\u2019re right. Your point is that they\u2019re writing law anyway at the bench. Yeah, I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s a genuine concern, there\u2019s no question. Tom, I appreciate your opinion. Who\u2019s next? Sherry in Quad Cities, Illinois. Hi, and welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos from the Quad Cities, 200 miles to the west of Chicago, but in no way to the left.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ah, yes. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I wanted to tell you that I love your use of humor. I am immeasurably appreciative of what you say, how you say it, and when you say it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know what? I do, too. I love listening to myself talk — and if you were as right as I am all the time, you\u2019d love hearing yourself talk, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Case in point. Okay. My point is that, Rush. I watched the Montana town hall meeting at which Obama spoke about how he\u2019s going to pay for this health care and a number of the dollars that would come from ‘saved money\u2019 by the limiting deductions.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep.<\/p>\n

CALLER: If I could have had a Hugo Chavez moment I would have at a town hall meeting taken him the book by Judge Judy Sheindlin: Don\u2019t Pee on My Leg and Tell Me It\u2019s Raining. I think that sums up a lot of our frustration within this country. My concern has to do with his assumption of income flow. If you lower these deductions on people, I don\u2019t care what their earnings are — $250,000 or more is the limit that he gives so that most of us feel safe — it\u2019s going to divert earnings. People will just divert their earnings. They\u2019ll work to get under that threshold. So he\u2019s saying like we\u2019re all supposed to be mindless sheep that he\u2019s going to lower the rate of deduction, I\u2019m sorry, and that\u2019s going to keep the money coming in. That\u2019s how we\u2019re going to pay for it. We\u2019re not supposed to think for ourselves. Well, guess what? We have brains. We do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is the static analysis of behavior after tax policy has changed versus dynamic. And Obama does seem to think that there is no end to being able to ‘tap\u2019 the private sector and wealthy people, that they\u2019re always going to be producing wealth, and they\u2019re always going to have it, and there is always gonna be money for him to get. But what he\u2019s really doing with this is just playing the class envy card. He knows, or he thinks that he\u2019ll have a much easier time selling this if he convinces most people it\u2019s going to be free for them; it\u2019s not going to cost them anything. ‘Eh, I\u2019m going to raise taxes on a couple millionaires — and, by the way, we\u2019re going to limit their tax shelters! We\u2019re going to limit their deductions. We\u2019re going to make sure they can\u2019t shield it. We\u2019re gonna soak \u2019em.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, once he does that… See, that\u2019s not accidental. Remember these people love crisis. They thrive on it. Because crisis gives them an opportunity to propose even more government to ‘fix\u2019 whatever crisis they\u2019ve caused. Now, if they actually do eliminate — for incomes over $250,000 a year — all deductibility of charitable donations, then it\u2019s going to kill charities 50,000 times worse than Bernie Madoff did, because a lot of people do philanthropic works because they just are philanthropic and they like doing good things. But a lot of people do it for the tax deduction. A lot of people buy houses just to get the mortgage deduction. If you take that away, you are going to really harm charities. Fewer and fewer private donations are going to be made, and that\u2019s going to lead to a crisis, and guess what? <\/p>\n

Obama will be able to come in and say, ‘Well, we\u2019ll have to fix this problem, too, and we\u2019re gonna raise taxes on people so we can redirect some of that money.\u2019 This is about how to kill the golden goose, and folks, I have said this — I don\u2019t like saying it, but I\u2019ve said this over and over again — this is not accidental. This is not naivete. This is a desire to take the money that exists in the hands of people who have it now and redistribute it to Obama\u2019s friends: the disadvantaged, victims, whoever. Because Obama believes that most people who have a lot of wealth have not come by it honestly, that they\u2019ve done it in a an unjust or immoral way because the American system of capitalism is unjust and immoral. This stimulus bill. It was a purposeful attack on the US economy. Nobody with any economic literacy would propose this kind of stimulus package, Porkulus package thinking that it\u2019s actually going to create jobs or that it\u2019s going to save jobs, especially where the money is going.<\/p>\n

And what, 5% of it spent the first year? So here we have close to three million people who have lost their jobs, and they\u2019re talking about doubling down and doing another stimulus. They\u2019re stupid… You know, there\u2019s a term I like to use called ‘educated stupid,\u2019 and these are educated stupid people. They know what they\u2019re doing and they\u2019re just hoping that they\u2019re going to continue to be able to get away with it, because exactly what you said: There are far more people that make less than $250,000 who think they\u2019re not going to get touched. The only problem for those people is they\u2019re losing their jobs left and right, and there aren\u2019t a whole lot of job opportunities for them out there. So this is a willful, purposeful destruction of the capitalist US economy, and health care is the number one thing. Well, maybe the way he\u2019s looking at it it\u2019s the final nail in the coffin. That\u2019s why it\u2019s crucial. To Alexandria, Virginia, next. Maureen, thank you for calling. How are you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I am fine. I was listening to your show yesterday with Mark Steyn, and he was talking about the British health system is the third largest employer in the world. So I was wondering what ours would be in the first place once it went in. But my husband and my daughter both work for the government as contractors, and let me tell you: I think the federal employee has got to be one of the laziest, most uneducated groups of people that work in the United States.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll bite. Why?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, because in the first place, they can\u2019t get fired. There is no way. They get to spend all the money they want — and at the end of the year if they haven\u2019t spent all of their allotment, they go and ask, ‘If you want anything put in your request, because we\u2019ve got all this money yet to spend.\u2019 I think they all probably are pretty well related or they know somebody\u2019s who\u2019s in there and gets the daughter of or the son of or the nephew of somebody they know in there to work. I don\u2019t know how they do their hiring practices, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s really 100% totally aboveboard. Plus they have so many regulations. And then they\u2019ll get a new supervisor and a new supervisor will come in and want to change everything because of the way it is running. He doesn\u2019t understand or it\u2019s not the way he wants it or he wants to make a name for himself, and they constantly are spinning their wheels. There\u2019s no forward progress. I don\u2019t see how they\u2019re ever going to be able to run something of this size or anything.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. What do they run efficiently now? I mean, these people can\u2019t even run the Cash-for-Clunkers program. Here\u2019s a measly little $1 billion program, and they can\u2019t even run that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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