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Jewish World Review Dec. 14, 2010 / 7 Teves, 5771 Language Problems By Cal Thomas
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Just following the numbers, not to mention the assertions, is enough to produce blank stares of incomprehension. There is a debate about whether the estate tax should jump from zero to 35 percent, or 55 percent. Some liberal congressional Democrats claim they won't consider voting for the "compromise" unless it is 55 percent. As Republicans and Democrats have attached new spending for pork projects in the tax rate compromise bill. Pork IS the universal language of This is fiscal irresponsibility. The reason America has a debt approaching Senator According to Sanders' reasoning, if people resist turning over increasing amounts of their paychecks to government, they are greedy. The left is obsessed with punishing the successful, but even if billionaires and multi-millionaires were taxed at a 100 percent rate, it wouldn't get close to eliminating the debt. Cutting spending would.
What word might best characterize a government that so misspends our money? Unconstitutional? Irresponsible? Outrageous? The class warfare game played by the Left leads nowhere. It is foreign to the Constitution and to our history. Every poor person would like the opportunity to become rich, or at least better off. Liberty and opportunity, not government, offer that chance if right choices are made and one develops a moral center. The Left's real concern is that too many people might become independent of government and have less "need" of politicians. Most politicians won't let that happen unless forced to do so by the voters. The November election was a step in the right direction. President Obama's latest manipulation of language is his shameless theft of a Republican idea. Last Friday, according to the "The idea is simplifying the system, hopefully lowering rates, broadening the base," the president told Wait, I thought the lowered Bush tax rates were a threat to the country? The tax code has become complicated because Congressional Republicans should scuttle the deal offered by the president and await reinforcements, arriving next month. They might then get a better deal. And maybe, just maybe, the new members will speak a language the public understands.
JWR contributor Cal Thomas is co-author with Bob Beckel, a liberal Democratic Party strategist, of "Common Ground: How to Stop the Partisan War That is Destroying America". Comment by clicking here.
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