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<\/p>\nKEN: We have a lot to cover as we celebrate the wisdom of Mr. Rush Limbaugh, and it is amazing how it fits like a puzzle into what\u2019s actually happening. And that\u2019s the beauty of people that understand history, because whether we believe it or not (now, I know this audience does, \u2019cause you\u2019ve read enough history and you\u2019ve listened to enough Rush Limbaugh) history does repeat itself.<\/p>\n
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So, here we are on today, a big day for the Biden administration. Hold on a second; let me see. No, he\u2019s still napping. But Biden\u2019s supposed to get up from his nap at 2:15, he gets like a cinnamon cookie from Dr. Jill (\u2019cause she\u2019s a doctor) and then they\u2019re gonna start their tour. They\u2019re calling the tour, by the way, “Help Is Here.” You see? They\u2019ve been in office for less than 60 days, and they have all the answers.<\/p>\n
So, they\u2019re gonna go around… You know, they just passed the American Rescue Plan. That\u2019s what Congress passed — $1.9 trillion of everyone else\u2019s money, including ours — and 9% of the package goes toward covid-19 relief. That is the ultimate… (laughing) that is the ultimate Democrat, leftist, progressive spending package. Almost $2 trillion and less than 10% actually going to help people that deserve the assistance and the help.<\/p>\n
I find it interesting that the first three locations of the tour — and I\u2019m telling you right now, you know this tour is gonna be exciting. I mean, if you\u2019ve ever seen Joe Biden speak, you know it\u2019s wooo! It\u2019s like a brush fire. He\u2019s going to Nevada, and he\u2019s going to Pennsylvania (coming to my home state), and Georgia. Ironically, those are three states that have a Senate race coming up.<\/p>\n
So basically, he\u2019s going to go around and buy votes, or at least pretend to do that. 800-282-2882, the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB Network. And, you know, Rush saw this because history repeats itself. You\u2019ve probably seen in Bloomberg and the New York Post and the New York Times, the Biden administration is providing the first big tax hike since 1993.<\/p>\n
At least the Democrats are consistent. I was thinking of this driving in. Gas prices up, food prices up, illegal foreign nationals and terrorists — the amount entering the country — are up, right? All energy is up, because the first thing Joe Biden did — and it\u2019s a stroke of genius considering he\u2019s a communist — is he got rid of our energy independence, and now he wants to raise taxes.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s up, up, up, up, America! But that is not really a “Help Is Here Tour.” It\u2019s more like, “Oh, we\u2019re gonna take your money” tour. Here\u2019s Rush.<\/a><\/p>\n RUSH: Everyone knows what\u2019s going on. Look, this is something as a 77-year-old guy with 47 years in Washington, he knows exactly what he\u2019s lying about here. He knows exactly what he\u2019s misrepresenting. There\u2019s two points about this. Biden has pledged that he\u2019s going to raise taxes on corporations and people who make $400,000 a year or more.<\/p>\n The Trump tax cuts were across the board, under the premise that everybody deserves a tax cut. There\u2019s no law that says just because you make X-numbers of millions that you have to pay more or a greater percentage than anybody else. So, there\u2019s two things here. Biden says he\u2019s only going to raise taxes on people who make 400 grand a year or more, but he\u2019s going to repeal the Trump tax cuts.<\/p>\n Well, if he repeals the Trump tax cuts, then everybody is getting a tax increase. Everybody. Including you. He\u2019s lying through his teeth when he tells you if you\u2019re less than 400 grand a year that you\u2019re not gonna get a tax increase. You are. The point about corporate taxes is exactly right.<\/p>\n Corporations pass tax increases along to the consumer as much as they can. There are some limitations they face, depending on the industry they are in and depending on the competitive times that they are involved in. You know, it\u2019s not axiomatic that a corporation can raise prices on its goods or services anytime it wants.<\/p>\n Corporations pass tax increases on to the consumer by folding the tax increase that they face into the price of whatever it is they\u2019re selling. Corporations, as a rule, do not pay taxes. They\u2019re happy, though, for you to think they do. Oh, they would love for you to think they\u2019re getting soaked, which is why they never complain about it. But they don\u2019t get soaked. You do. Every tax increase, you do.<\/p>\n KEN: You know, it\u2019s amazing about getting soaked because you look at the $1.9 trillion, how many friends or family members do you have and they say, “Oh, I\u2019m getting this check from the government. I\u2019m stoked. They\u2019re gonna help me.” It\u2019s your money! (laughing) It\u2019s your money. If you are watching C-SPAN and you see a senator sitting at a desk, you paid for the desk and the carpeting and the lighting.<\/p>\n We pay for all of it, and the thing that\u2019s always shocked me, because history repeats itself — and because somebody like Rush Limbaugh did such a brilliant job explaining even to… You know, it\u2019s so easy when Rush explains something, even a college professor could understand it. And rarely do they understand much, outside their little classroom bubble.<\/p>\n But even they could understand it. So you have millions of people that were cheering and chanting. Of course, we have to factor in the fact that there was a lot of hate for Mr. Trump, and hate can be blinding, and they voted for Biden. But we knew. We knew exactly what was gonna happen because this is what progressive liberals and socialists do all over the world the minute they get any type of power.<\/p>\n Because it\u2019s easier to get someone that doesn\u2019t to vote for socialism because of the way it\u2019s set up. Think about that 9% of the package goes towards covid-19 relief. But this happens every single time a leftist gets into power. Mike, do we have cut 2 standing by? (interruption) Okay. This is another reason why I don\u2019t understand why people cannot grasp how dangerous socialism is. Go ahead.<\/a><\/p>\n RUSH: They may not even understand socialism, and if they do understand it, they think it\u2019s a good thing. They\u2019ve been taught that it\u2019s a good thing in school. So what I am going to say is: 40% of the people in this country who vote want the kind of thing that Obama is going to offer.<\/p>\n We\u2019re going to have to defeat 40% of the country, and then after they\u2019re defeated, they\u2019re going to be clamoring and mad and angry, and they\u2019re going to be… Things are always going to be unsettled in this realm. There\u2019s always going to be a certain percentage of people who want something for nothing. I saw…<\/p>\n Mark Steyn had the line at the National Review. “We\u2019ve got a long way from JFK in 1960 who said, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.'” That\u2019s 1960. In 2008, it\u2019s now, “Ask not what your country can do for you; demand what your country can do for you,” and that\u2019s who voted for Obama.<\/p>\n The Drive-Bys are trying to say, “No, no, no. There wasn\u2019t any white guilt here. There wasn\u2019t any Raspberry Effect or Blackberry Effect. We\u2019ve really gotten past it.” No, we haven\u2019t. We haven\u2019t gotten past it at all. Obama made a bargain with them. These guilty white people, liberals, love the bargain that they were able to make with Obama.<\/p>\n My point is, not everybody voting for Obama is being pulled by the cart, or not paying taxes. There are a lot of smart people who voted for him. Well, “smart.” Eh, even I get caught in the trap. We\u2019ve gotta redefine “smart.” That\u2019s another thing we have to do damn fast in this country.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ZZ-APP-Rush-CLASSI-LIMBAUGHNOMICS.jpg\")
Then he says that he\u2019s going to repeal the Trump tax cuts. Well, folks, the mathematics is very simple. If he follows through and if they repeal the Trump tax cuts, then everybody is going to get a tax increase. The Trump tax cuts benefited people who make less than $400,000 a year.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/APP-20201-031621-Biden-goofy.jpg\")
There are tricky ways that they can raise prices, but they still have to be very careful that they\u2019re not doing damage to themselves in the competitive realm. If their competitors are not gonna raise prices and they do, then they\u2019ve got a problem. But generally speaking, in a philosophical sense, corporations do not pay taxes. That is correct, 90% of the time it\u2019s exactly correct:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/RushTaxes-Rush.jpg\")
They grow the size of government. They expand their own power. Sometimes they do it with barbwire or military around buildings and you\u2019re not allowed in anymore. Sometimes they tell you we\u2019re gonna have to start putting more probes up your nose, cotton swabs. But the biggest thing they do is start taking money. They take money from people that produce and give it to people that don\u2019t.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/ObamaEconomyGrowGov.jpg\")
Now, there are a lot of people also that voted for Obama that are not that way per se. Shelby Steele\u2019s got a great piece today, that this is white guilt on parade; and he\u2019s written extensively of this, numerous books and articles. And that\u2019s another thing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n