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Clinton promises end to economic excess
Houston Chronicle ^ | Jan. 21, 2008 | WIre Reports

Posted on 01/20/2008 11:14:37 PM PST by FocusNexus

Hillary Clinton said that if she became president, the federal government would take a more active role in the economy, in an effort to address what she said were the excesses of the market and the Bush administration.

She told the New York Times she would put her emphasis on issues like inequality and the role of institutions like government, rather than market forces, in addressing them.

She said that economic excesses -- including executive-pay packages she characterized as often "offensive" and "wrong" and a tax code that had become "so far out of whack" in favoring the wealthy -- were holding down middle-class living standards.

(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: Illinois; US: New York
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
"How the hell does our tax structure “favor the wealthy?”"

No income caps, Commissar.

21 posted on 01/20/2008 11:35:09 PM PST by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: americanophile
I’ll post Obama’s rantings about the market. Talk about the lesser of an evil.
22 posted on 01/20/2008 11:36:40 PM PST by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation
How the hell does our tax structure “favor the wealthy?”

It's very simple--I am not joking, I can post about this with authority because I work in Cambridge, MA and have had this argument over and over and over.

People like HRC believe in the Marxist concept that if you are wealthy, it is because you took more than your share from someone else, who thus has less than they should.

HRC and her sort--known as HRCS--believe that one of the reasons we even HAVE a government is to prevent certain people from "getting" too much.

Thus, if someone goes out and creates a new product or industry, they are using this country and its system which is ALL OF OURS to "play the system" and earn MORE than someone else--thus, taking money from an imaginary "closed system" which has only so much wealth to go around.

So if someone is making more than HRCS deem necessary, and can afford luxury items (namely anything beyond essentials and MAYBE a one-week, MODEST vacation), they're not fueling the economy. No, no, NO--their expenditures somehow go nowhere and do nothing.

It is only government which has the right to spend that money, because we ALL get to vote for the executive and legislative branches. Thus, they are our proxies in deciding what should be done with the wealth that's NOT created by an individual but by THE SYSTEM we are ALL a part of.

So any punitive taxes are only about "playing fair" and "leveling the playing field" or otherwise taking back for ALL OF US what those evil rich people "took" from ALL of us.

Now, ain't that logical to you? :D

23 posted on 01/20/2008 11:37:58 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life atheist who will vote Fred in the primary, Republican in November)
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To: FocusNexus; All

Plan B : http://www.livinginthephilippines.com


24 posted on 01/20/2008 11:38:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Your "dirt" on Fred is about as persuasive as a Nancy Pelosi Veteran's Day Speech)
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To: endthematrix

I don’t know if I can take it.


25 posted on 01/20/2008 11:38:35 PM PST by americanophile
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To: FocusNexus

The country moves ever leftward abetted by both major political parties.


26 posted on 01/20/2008 11:38:54 PM PST by gpapa (My idea of gun control is a good, steady aim)
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To: FocusNexus

“We’re gonna take things away from you for the common good.”


27 posted on 01/20/2008 11:40:36 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Our God-given unalienable rights are not open to debate, negotiation or compromise!)
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To: FocusNexus
Free market? WHAT free market, in Clinton-land?

Hillary's sole-mate sources of inspiration:

Nikita Khrushchev and Joseph Stalin. Currently rotting somewhere in hell...

28 posted on 01/20/2008 11:41:36 PM PST by JustTheTruth
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To: FocusNexus

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Hillary: ‘We’re Going to Take Things Away From You’

Hillary Clinton knows better than you do how to spend your paycheck. Really she does. Just ask her.

Few media have trumpeted that Sen. Clinton exposed her socialist agenda during a speech Monday in San Francisco (which the Associated Press dubbed the “leftiest big city on the Left Coast”). But don’t take our word for it. We’ll go straight to the horse’s mouth.

“Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you. We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you,” she said at a fund-raiser for radical Sen. Barbara Boxer.

“We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good,” the former first lady admitted.

Hillary, naturally, knows what “the common good” is.

And what the hey. As we reported Tuesday, the Democrats are the party of the filthy rich.

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/6/30/91013.shtml


29 posted on 01/20/2008 11:44:11 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Our God-given unalienable rights are not open to debate, negotiation or compromise!)
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To: Darkwolf377

That’s it! I’m not reading any more of your posts. That last one gave me a headache!!!! LOL


30 posted on 01/20/2008 11:45:23 PM PST by Laptop_Ron (Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. —)
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To: Darkwolf377
HRC and her sort--known as HRCS--believe that one of the reasons we even HAVE a government is to prevent certain people from "getting" too much.

Which, of course, explains why certain bureaucrats have secret accounts in the Cayman Islands.

31 posted on 01/20/2008 11:45:36 PM PST by End_Clintonism_Now (<==== NOW MORE THAN EVER !!!!!)
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To: Ronin
I wonder what the new US 10,000,000 bill is going to look like.

It'll feature a nice portrait of Billy Jeff of course.

32 posted on 01/20/2008 11:46:04 PM PST by thecabal
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To: A Balrog of Morgoth


The Master and the Pupil
33 posted on 01/20/2008 11:46:45 PM PST by Deo volente
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To: Laptop_Ron

I can’t help it if I’m an expert in Clintonese! :D


34 posted on 01/20/2008 11:51:18 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (Pro-Life atheist who will vote Fred in the primary, Republican in November)
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To: americanophile
“we are all in this together. From CEOs to shareholders, from financiers to factory workers”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/17/us/politics/16text-obama.html?pagewanted=print

Some other gems, but recall he is speaking to Wall Street, so he’s not gonna expose his full hand. He also had said (really ticked me off) that American Companies don’t give to charities.

35 posted on 01/20/2008 11:51:25 PM PST by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: FocusNexus

The nine most terrifying words in the English language
are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’

Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)


36 posted on 01/20/2008 11:52:43 PM PST by HuntsvilleTxVeteran (Rudy,Romney,McCain, Huckabee will send a self-abused stomped elephant to the DRNC.)
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To: Jim Robinson
She's already threatened to nationalize the oil companies, al la Chavez.


"The other day the oil companies recorded the highest profits in the history of the world. I want to take those profits."

http://newsbusters.org/node/10580
37 posted on 01/21/2008 12:00:23 AM PST by Deo volente
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To: americanophile
I don’t know if I can take it.

It took so long to half-bake it.

38 posted on 01/21/2008 12:03:47 AM PST by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but they’re really after folding money.)
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To: A Balrog of Morgoth

“She told the New York Times she would put her emphasis on issues like inequality and the role of institutions like government, rather than market forces, in addressing them.

She said that economic excesses — including executive-pay packages she characterized as often “offensive” and “wrong” and a tax code that had become “so far out of whack” in favoring the wealthy — were holding down middle-class living standards.”

Somewhere in hell...Karl Marx is smiling.


39 posted on 01/21/2008 12:06:16 AM PST by MissouriConservative (We accommodate other cultures at the expense of ours.)
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To: Darkwolf377

Well, it’s a dubious achievement, to be sure, but I guess someone has to translate. :D


40 posted on 01/21/2008 12:06:20 AM PST by Laptop_Ron (Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. —)
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