To Democrats, EVERYONE is rich!

Union Leader:

Sunday, Mar. 16, 2008

Whatever money you have left after paying for gas, home heating oil and groceries, you'd better start saving right now. You're going to need it to pay your huge new tax bill.

On Thursday and Friday, Democrats in Congress voted to hike discretionary spending by $300 billion ($700 billion in total spending) in the next five years alone. They would pay for that by passing gigantic new tax increases for virtually all Americans.

The $3 trillion budget resolution passed in the Senate would require $1.2 trillion in tax increases, Sen. Judd Gregg, the ranking Republican member of the Senate Budget Committee, calculates. ($1.2 TRILLION!!) And not just on "the rich," either.

"(Barack) Obama and (Hillary) Clinton both promise to reverse Bush's tax cuts for wealthier taxpayers, but the Democratic budget they'll be voting for would allow income tax rates to go up on individuals making as little as $31,850 and couples earning $63,700 or more," The Washington Post reported on Thursday.

In the House, every single Democrat -- including New Hampshire Reps. Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes -- voted for a budget resolution that would officially raise taxes by $683 million, The Post reported. But this budget is a fantasy, too. It includes no Iraq war spending after next year. It will have to raise billions more than it anticipates.

Instead of cutting back, like most American families are doing, the Democratic majority in Washington is proposing to win election this fall by spending lavishly on key voter groups. And where are they getting the money? Straight from the pockets of Americans already struggling to make ends meet.

This is boilerplate New Deal liberalism. But the anti-wealthy rhetoric behind it does not match reality. The truth is, Hodes and Shea-Porter, Obama and Clinton all talk about raising taxes only on the rich, but they just voted to raise taxes on everyone from the rich to lower-middle class families struggling to survive. That means you.

So, you know that  "economic stimulus" check coming in the mail to you?  $1,600  a couple?  Can you do the math?


What starts out a perhaps a nice idea (frankly, the money should be going to those that can actually create jobs which would create more lasting benefit than a one shot), turns into a Democratic flim-flam as this is a net $400 back to the government.

Such a deal by these retrograde New Dealers!