Don’t expect ShaHodeSheaPorter to wrestle with this conundrum; while running for office in 2008 they insisted that the Bush Tax cuts were "for the rich," or "the wealthiest Americans." The class warfare rhetoric made the case that Republicans didn’t provide tax relief for anyone else, and the democrats promised to remedy this the moment they were elected. The result was to embark on a multi-trillion dollar spending binge that cannot possibly be paid for without taxes on everyone and everything–though they still insist otherwise.
Catapult forward two years and now the same democrats are talking about the expiration of the Bush Tax cuts with new class warfare rhetoric: this time around they are going to keep the tax cuts on the middle class that could not possibly exist prior to 2008 and keep raise taxes on the business class–the job producers–whom under class warfare rules cannot be identified as either, they are just "the rich."
Given that tax cuts for the middle class had to exist to be left in place, you have to ask yourself just how hollow and unprincipled these democrats are. You also have to wonder if the new rhetoric is just as empty as the old. Don’t wonder too long, it is.
The Heritage Foundation took the time to point out the long range affects of milking the business class and job creators while leaving those other previously non-existent tax cuts for the middle class in place.Take a look, and then challenge your democrat candidates to explain first the contradictions between 2008 and 2010, and then whether they are as dismissive of the negative side effects of their approach to using the tax code as a tool for political gain as they were of 2000 page bills filled with surprises they could never be bothered to read.
(H/T to NH Insider for posting it first)
