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Leftists Admit They Want Big Tax Hikes on the Middle Class

HopefulAmerican Wrote: Aug 11, 2012 5:45 PM

I don't want to look at Europe - I think they are having enough problems of their own. You can go to Europe but I'll stay here. And the question of illegals should be put to your president Obama who thinks it great that they are here and we should give them citizenship, medicaid and welfare and tax refunds - although they have never paid any taxes. And I think you should leave the Small Business Owner alone after all he/she did build it themselves!

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Leftists Admit They Want Big Tax Hikes on the Middle Class

While I disagree with statists, I sometimes admire their discipline. They are very good at staying “on message.”

I am 100 percent confident, for instance, that they intend big tax hikes on the middle class, even though they would piously swear an oath to the contrary. Indeed, I suspect more than 90 percent of them secretly would like a value-added tax.

It’s not that they necessarily dislike ordinary people, but privately they understand that you can’t finance big government by taxing rich people.

Simply stated, there aren’t enough of the “1 percent.” Moreover, rich people have...

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