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Howard Dean: Honestly, Everyone's Going to Have to Pay Higher Taxes Soon

Resist, We Much!!! Wrote: Dec 06, 2012 8:46 PM

believe that they can have a free lunch and stick the “evil rich” with the tab. Unfortunately for the clueless, there aren’t enough “evil rich” people to pay for the lunch to which the moochers believe they are entitled. The Bush tax cuts took 3 million low income Americans off of the tax rolls. How did they repay Republicans? By voting for Barack Obama and other Democrats. Make them start paying for that "Obama stash" and make 'em pay until it hurts. For FY2012, the government spent $3.7956 trillion. Eliminating the Bush tax rates on the top 2% is estimated to bring in $80 billion, ceterus paribus. Ending the Bush tax rates on the top 2% will pay for 7.69* days of Federal government spending. $80 billion isn't chump change, but it is

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Howard Dean: Honestly, Everyone's Going to Have to Pay Higher Taxes Soon

This candid assessment from former DNC Chairman Howard Dean comes after the election, of course -- but better late than never, I suppose. Listen up, middle class. The truth comes out:

Note well Larry nodding in agreement as Dean delivers his "heretical" news. Whether or not they'll say so publicly, most Lefties recognize that across-the-board tax hikes are a necessary ingredient in their broader project of unending government expansionism. Beating up on "the rich" is a politically-convenient ploy for the moment,...

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