President Junior: Raise taxes
February 17th, 2005 at 8:22 am by Preston Taylor HolmesWell, you knew it was going to come at some point for our Republicrat-in-chief. When you spend like a drunken sailor, somebody has to pay – and why not the evil “rich”?
AP: Bush may raise taxes for social security.
It costs a pretty penny to fund services for all these illegals that President Junior seems hellbent on bringing across the Rio Grande.
At the same time, he renewed his pitch Wednesday for Congress to approve an overhaul that would include Social Security private accounts for many workers. He told 2,000 people in an airport terminal that rich and poor alike should have a chance to invest in the stock market.
“Investors aren’t just Wall Street people, as far as I’m concerned,” Bush told the crowd invited by the state’s all-GOP congressional delegation. “I think every citizen, every citizen has got the capacity to manage his or her own money.”
Of course, the feds will continue to confiscate that money so that every citizen is denied the opportunity to manage that money, but that’s another story, isn’t it? Besides, we need to pay for prescription drugs for seniors, don’t we Junior?
“The one thing I’m not open-minded about is raising the payroll tax rate. And all the other issues go on the table,” Bush said in the interview, according to an account in Wednesday’s New Haven (Conn.) Register.
For you dual income couples who (combined) make $90,000 + a year, you’re rich. You may not be aware of that – especially if you have kids – but you’re filthy stinking rich and you need to pay your fair share. And that’s coming from one of your beloved tax-cutting Republicans, not a drunken, bloated Senator from Massachusetts.
“Just because he said it was an option doesn’t mean he embraced it,” Duffy added.
To embrace it, he has to actually put his arms around it and give it a loving big-government style hug.
I’m sure glad President Junior hasn’t suddenly become a fiscal conservative in his second term. That could jeopardize the delightful relationship he’s built up with the mainstream press.