If by eat the rich you mean raising their taxes 4% when their wealth has grown 270% under voodoo while the nonrich and the country suffer, DUPE, then it should be said that Obama NEVER wanted to raise their taxes before 2013, because that might hurt the recovery.
CHANGE THE GD CHANNEL!!! tyvm
Well let's explore "eat the rich" then, shall we?
The tax hike that Obama is treating as if it were the panacea of all our economic woes would result in just 28 billion toward our more than a trillion annual deficit next year. As you say, that's a pretty small amount. Easy enough to see what's in it for him... it's red meat to his envy-riddled leftist base. Division for the sake of picking off votes.
But if it's such a small amount, why is it that Republicans fight him tooth and nail over it?
And as I posted earlier today.. the answer is that they know something about Keynes that he
doesn't. They know why it worked for Reagan but not for Obama.
(partial reprint of my earlier post
Imagine the economy as a plate spinning on a stick, kind of like what performers used to do at circuses and vaudeville shows. The plate slows, wobbles, and the performer gives it a little nudge with his finger... and it spins faster.
The influx of government cash to the economy is kind of like that little nudge. But other forces are at work, making that plate spin and keeping it from wobbling. Cash in the hands of consumers raises Demand, Demand raises Production, Production raises Jobs, Jobs raise Cash... which sustains Demand. And the plate spins.
But just as things like centrifugal force and gravity work on the plate unseen, so too do necessary but invisible forces work on the economy... consumer confidence, predictability, optimism. Ronald Reagan exuded these things, not only in his demeanor with the American People, but in his policies. Barack Obama is the polar opposite, negative, threatening, unpredictable. Obamacare, Card Check, Cap-and-Trade, higher taxes, onerous regulatory law, etc.... all undermine those hidden, but necessary, invisible forces.
He's got to go. It's the only way our economy can recover. Mitt Romney might not be Ronald Reagan. No one is. But he's not going to go out of his way to present himself as a threat to the American people or to the economy we depend upon. And... he does understand how it works, not only in the abstract, but in detail. Step one, when you've been knocked off your feet, is to get back up. Obama's not going to let that happen.
There's that. But let's really "eat the rich":
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What we note from Bill Whittle's presentation, is that we could literally confiscate every extra dime from "the rich" and not be able to fund our current spending for more than a year. And that leaves nothing for any subsequent year.
You are being LIED to by Barack Obama. He already knows all this. What he's doing, he's doing in a deliberate effort to create division among citizens in order to get votes. And the saddest part is... it's all about keeping a job that he
could be doing today if he wanted to. But he hasn't really bothered himself to actually DO that job in the three and a half years he's had it.
He promised you Unity. He promised you a post-partisan, post-racial, "new way of doing business in Washington". And what he gives you is hyper-partisanship, beer summits, and cronyism behind locked doors. How can you not feel
used?
