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Doocy on possibility of middle-class tax increases: "Don't be surprised if you see a tea party or two brewing somewhere"

August 03, 2009 10:17 am ET

From the August 3 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:

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    • Author by Bad News (August 03, 2009 10:27 am ET)
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      Why do i Dislike Steve Doocy?
      Is it because Watching Fox & Friends is like Watching "I Love Lucy"
      Or is it because of Doocy's "Fox Smirk"
      Watching Fox & Friends would make anyone Go Biserk.

      Speak truth to power.


      Mr. News
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    • Author by dmhack (August 03, 2009 10:28 am ET)
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      You know, it must be nice to go to a job each day where you don't have to rely on facts and can just make things up.
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    • Author by harley (August 03, 2009 10:39 am ET)
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      Yeah, have another tea-party...they worked so well the first time.

      But, you have to love their "logic": When the middle class got a tax break, they had a hissy fit and had their laughable teabagging day. So, now that a rumor of a middle class tax increase is spreading, they are going to have another failed teabagging? Really? LOL
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    • Author by magnolialover (August 03, 2009 10:41 am ET)
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      And Doocy, again, forgetting what the original tea parties before the Revolution were actually about.
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    • Author by HistoricallyCorrect (August 03, 2009 10:45 am ET)
         
      Oh yes, the protestors were complaining about the taxes? Not immigration, not abortion, not offending black people, basically not another place to spew your hateful, racist, bigoted agenda.
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    • Author by shaggles (August 03, 2009 11:33 am ET)
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      I don't see a problem with tax increases if we can drop our private health insurance.
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      • Author by NiceguyEddie (August 03, 2009 11:42 am ET)
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        YES! YES! YES!

        THIS is what need ot be driven home!!! Tax increase INSTEAD of ins. premium!

        It's like I keep saying: We're already paying for it folks, we're just paying for a system that DOESN'T WORK for us.
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    • Author by historygeek001 (August 03, 2009 11:33 am ET)
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      Once again I'm reminded of Colbert saying "Pinch me off a Doocy."
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    • Author by marco21 (August 03, 2009 12:08 pm ET)
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      More Republican mouthpieces suddenly worried about fiscal responsibility - how quaint.




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    • Author by The_Cat (August 03, 2009 1:17 pm ET)
         
      I think this clip is being misinterpreted to be honest.

      They keep saying 'we' and so I will take them at their word. Concern over the deficit is understandable, and what these wealthy conservatives are saying is that they are going to call up the Congressman/woman they bought with their hard earned dollars and make sure the tax burden is shifted onto the middle class where they believe it belongs.

      They falsely think that this specter of a tax increase will frighten those of us whom it might affect into going along with whatever the corporate executives want, whether it be ending cap and trade or canceling health coverage reform.

      Too bad they're wrong...
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      • Author by dmhack (August 03, 2009 2:20 pm ET)
           
        You're probably right, Cat, but the second the Obama administration even hints at a middle-class tax hike the screaming will be so loud rational discourse will be impossible.

        Down the road, when people have a had a chance to experience the reforms, there might be hope of talking about taxes. But right now, a tax hike (as reasoned as that is) to cover health care reform would kill it for another decade.
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