WHY WON'T THE MEDIA REPORT WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE? -- MBURG "the one and only"

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Subject: WHY WON'T THE MEDIA REPORT WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE?

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H.Roark

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Date Posted: 14:11:45 01/15/02 Tue

Teddy Kennedy is going to be making a major policy speech tomorrow. It's called "America's New Challenge: National Security, Economic Recovery and Progress for All Americans." Simply put, he's going to ask for more government spending programs and higher taxes. Oh, Kennedy won't call them tax increases, but tax increases they are. He will want the cuts that are already on the books for high achievers to be eliminated. When the law says that your tax rate is going to be X percent in the year 2004, and another law is passed changing that tax rate to X+1 percent for that same year, that's a tax increase. It's folly and stupidity to call it anything else.
Bruce Bartlett has it right in his column today. "In the Democrat worldview, deficits are never caused by excessive spending, except maybe on defense. They arise solely and exclusively because taxes are too low. Hence, the universal Democratic solution for all budgetary problems, whether they be deficits or disappearing surpluses, is always the same: higher taxes."
Well, Bartlett is right --- as far as he goes. But why doesn't he and other pundits write about what is really going on here? Kennedy and his Demcoratic fellow travelers only want taxes raised on those evil, successful capitalists who earn the top incomes! He's all for lowering the tax liability for the core Democratic constituency out there.
I don't know how many times I've said and written this ... but here it goes again. The Democrats are engaged in a steady and long-running effort to relieve their constituents from any tax liability whatsoever. This includes federal income as well as payroll taxes. When Democrats read that the top one percent of income earners pay one-third of all income taxes while earning 17 percent of the income, they smile. This is what they're working for! They want a system where federal income taxes are almost entirely the responsibility of a minority of high achievers who aren't likely to vote Demcorat anyway! That leaves them free to milk those who won't vote for them to feed those who will!
It's all so simple -- so obvious. Come on, Bruce. Expose the plan!

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Re: WHY WON'T THE MEDIA REPORT WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON HERE?	Ronlee	19:51:17 01/15/02 Tue