Paying less taxes means you get to keep more of what you earn, creating a greater incentive to work hard and succeed. Isn't that the theory behind the entire conservative movement? Slash all those federal programs. Lets see if blacks, given an incredible opportunity, can make it under their own steam. Keyes thinks they can. Obama thinks they cannot.
What !?! Me paying 35 % of my gross in income taxes and you paying none? Is that what you consider conservative (and fair) ?
You'll never see another tax cut in your lifetime, thats for sure. Talk about pitting the "poor" against the "rich" !!
I knew I would find someone hitting the nail on the head. Keyes is not in this thing to win, he is in it to put Obama in the pigeon hole he blongs in. The far, far left. He will be as controversial as he always is, for the sake of discussion. Making Sense, it's what he is all about. The topic is now up for discussion, the left has already had it on the table, now what do they do?
Obama will have to defend a position, a left position. Keyes frames it in a conservative position, give the people the choice of what to do. Same as Rev Al said, 40 acres and a mule. But 21st centruy style!
And Keyes, by Making Sense, just might make this a real race.