Doocy: Democrats want to raise taxes on "evil successful people," "the so-called rich"
July 27, 2010 8:14 am ET
From the July 27 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends:
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He is playing, right?
He wasn't even a very good weatherman. Now Fox puts him forth as an "expert" on just about everything. Only in America.
He deserves a lot more than just having his taxes raised.
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They always need to make it some phony moral issue, Fox's bizarro version of class warfare, where they're somehow able to get a bunch of middle and lower class people outraged that the elites who are getting rich off of them are being asked to kick in.
If you go into a restaurant and order the two most expensive meals on the menu for yourself, and wash it down with the best bottle of wine, you're going to pay more than the guy who gets the blue plate special.
It doesn't mean you're evil, there's no moral judgment there, you just make your choices and take responsibility for them.
Ethics problems don't have political ideology, markbfoot.
It's bullsh*t, of course, but enough to stampede the cowardly members of Congress.
I hear"naked greed" as an excuse, but it doesn't make sense to wreck the entire system so you can have a bigger swimmikng pool, a fancier car, or a larger castle.
What am I missing?
I really think that, in their minds, once they accumulate their fat portfolios, they're set for life... then the rest of us can just go to hell.
Take the CEO of BP, for example. Word is that he's out the door. So what? He's probably got enough money stashed away that no one in his family will have to work for six generations. What does he care?
You're right... it doesn't make sense... but I can't think of any other explanation.
The right wing brain has some weird filters on it.
And Jed Clampett doesn't count.
There's really no such thing as "self made". We all use other people one way or another.
Talk about missing the point.
I guess I've read this type of stuff for toooo many years, I can sometimes make sense of them.
Now, yes, I know they're being sarcastic, trying to imply that liberals are the judgemental ones (HA!) and that we are so full of class-envy, that it somehow drives us to class warfare. (Forgetting of course that it's the POOR WHITES who used to be unionized, back when they still HAD good-paying jobs that really get these fools elected!)
But remember: Fair and Balanced. I guess that means "make sure you never host anyone who would even TRY to justify a progressive taxation system."
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You know, like ADAM SMITH, that flaming liberal!
They're RICH! There's no other way of putting it. Of course, if you live in Fox Land, I'm sure $250k is not a lot of money, but down here in real America, it's a fortune.
If a "small business" has $250,000 left over after paying all expenses, payroll, etc., they're doing just fine.
Nobody suggests that they enmass are evil at all, though as stated above the looters on Wall Street were and are.
Wingnuts always set-up their argument with these strawmen "some" or "evil rich" or whatever.
Tax rates will go up slightly and if there is somenone to suggest that a 3 percent increase in the marginal rate is a crisis, please see that they get some help.
There is simply no data to suggest that lower tax rates are the answer to our problems.
Hint to wingnuts : Reagan raised taxes during a recession and raised taxes almost every year he was in office.
so reagan should be a hero to the left?
Umm, her point doesn't make any sense. Yes, Hillary is rich, and yet, she is proposing raising taxes on herself in order to help pay down the deficit in the country, and to fund the programs that we need. It doesn't matter if her daughter's wedding costs millions of dollars. Her and Bill got the coin to do it, and if I did, I would too. They're not talking as if they're not in that category, they KNOW they are, and are still looking to do it. And, nobody is telling you what to do with your money.