Limousine liberals say this publicly every chance they get, the purpose being to deflect envy, while privately hiring the brightest CPAs to find every tax dodge possible. The whole motivation for limousine liberalism is to deflect envy, appease the mob, so they can keep as much as their wealth as possible. As Barky inflames envy, rouses the mob, and attempts to either take their wealth or destroy it, limousine liberals cringe. It damages their entire public motif, negates all their posturing and image management.
The rich fear the mob, the Democrats. They do not fear conservatives. Because the rich are greatly outnumbered they take an appeasement strategy of befriending the beast. Normally the strategy works wonderfully, but when it fails, it fails spectacularly.
People need to call this guy up and challenge him to re-file and amend his last five returns taking the standard deduction. If he wants to pay higher taxes then he should.
When he said the wealthy should pay more ...he did not want taxes raised...he meant in terms of tax rates..
That's one of the more concise explanations for limousine-liberalism that I've seen.
And the whole point of Cloward-Piven strategy is to defeat the protective "social net" strategy liberals created to constrain/appease/buy off the radicals' client-crowds.
This is all about a death-match between the limousine crowd and the Communists. The Communists don't even worry about us -- they just see us as meat for the destructive-labor camps.
They will learn to their cost -- their total, terminal cost -- just how wrong they are.