[RobbyS]

The problem for Mrs. Clinton is not that people sense she will raise taxes. It's that they don't think she'll raise them on the real and truly rich. The rich are her friends. They contribute to her, dine with her, have access to her. They have an army of accountants. They're protected even from her. But she can stick it to others, and in the way of modern liberalism for roughly half a century now one suspects she'll define affluence down. That she would hike taxes on people who make $150,000 a year. But those "rich"--people who make $200,000 and have two kids and a mortgage and pay local and state taxes in, say, New Jersey--they don't see themselves as rich. Because they're not. They're already carrying too much of the freight.

NAILED IT!

[Wolverine]

[wayoverontheright]

If we could succeed in showing that a war on the "rich" and "wealthy" through tax policy is a war on our nation's employers and investors, and thus EVERYONE in the private sector becomes collateral damage, then we wouldn't need to talk about which income level gets hurt, and which does not. Such an educational thrust could be effective, if employed, if for no other reason than it has the convenient quality of being demonstrably true.

Employers and investors are the engine of our economy, and a punitive tax regime becomes the equivalent of putting dirty socks in the engine, instead of oil. The private sector is already running on one or two less cylinders, and its oil is dirty and gunk-filled even now, precisely because the "rich" (read employers and investors) have become the declared enemy in this war on the private sector.

The solution lies in exchanging, over time, a consumption tax for the current income tax. Removing disincentives to work, capital formation, and risk taking would truly "fuel inject" the economic engine, and provide prosperity for both "rich" and "poor". To allow the class-warfare-through-tax-policy-game to be played with the assumption that only those whose taxes go up get hurt, is dangerous in the extreme.

[Doogle]

[Doogle]

[Museum Twenty]

Ahem...Peggy, it’s Stevenson, not Sevenson.

Apparently, he wasn’t quite famous enough. (Joke!)

[sono]

Hillary Returns to Wellsley.

Question:
How many Wellsley Girls does it take to change a light bulb?

Answer:
It’s Wymin, and that’s not funny!

[Piquaboy]

I cannot stand to look at her face, much less her inner self.

[epow]

Hillary’s outer being is disgusting enough, I don’t want to know anything about her inner being, yeeech.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[doug from upland]

Her inner self is a black heart.