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Townhall Finance
Fiscal Cliff?
Tax the Rich
by John Ransom
Barack Obama wants you to know that the rich are out of control.
And I partially agree. It’s a matter of fairness.
After thinking about it for a few years, he has finally figured out
that our economic problems have a very simple explanation: There are
too many rich people.
I know of at least one too many. The one occupying the White House? Way
too rich.
Too many rich people are causing a jobless “recovery.” Having too many
rich people caused gas prices to go up, the stock market to go down and
the housing bubble to burst. Too many rich people meant that a peaceful
demonstration against America in Benghazi turned into terrorism.
The rich, Obama would have you believe, are probably responsible for
the next ice age too.
Rich people, it seems, run up huge budget deficits on silly things like
entitlement spending disguised as healthcare reform, green energy
swindles disguised as “jobs programs” and road projects that benefit
the Illinois Asphalt Contractors Association -bada-bing!
Rich people demand trillions in stimulus spending, huge mortgage
entitlements for people who can’t make house payments and bloated
pension programs for public workers.
Rich people get special treatment from banks that they are supposed to
be regulating; they encourage the Federal Reserve Bank to print more
money and they borrow gigantic sums from the Chinese…
Read the rest of the article at Townhall Finance
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