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After Tax Hike, Obama Still Thinks Rich Need to Pay More

kajun51 Wrote: Jan 04, 2013 7:45 AM
As I read about the tendency for people to vote to raise taxes on the "rich", I remember the movie "1984" in which Big Brother's agent are torturing the main protagonist and trying to get him to disown his lover. What they finally did was find his worst fear and use it against him. When threatened with being gnawed by rats, he screamed, "Do it to her, do it to her! Please don't do it me!" This is what the majority of people are doing these days. "Don't raise my taxes; do it to "them"! Don't take away my entitlements; make "them" pay more! Don't make me work for my family; make "them" do it. Give me more; take it from "them"! And the "them" is anybody else. No matter how much harm it does to the country and our children.

It apparently wasn't enough to raise taxes on 77 percent of Americans with the fiscal cliff deal signed into law by auto-pen late last night by President Obama. In a video put out by the White House, President Obama dishonestly explained what the fiscal cliff means and then proceeded to say some Americans still need to "pay their fair share." Obama said there is more he wants to do to reduce our debt in a "balanced way," because after all, the $41 in tax hikes per $1 in spending cuts apparently wasn't enough irresponsibility for him. He gloated over the...

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