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Defend America on Tuesday, August 04, 2009 4:23:21 PM
C’mon,
how about some Walter Mondalesque candor from the Obama White House on
taxes? Yes, yes, it was 25 years ago this summer that the Democratic
presidential candidate self-immolated on the issue at his party’s
convention in San Francisco. But surely Americans have become more
urbane and sophisticated since then as to what makes for sound economic
policy, oui?
[Find out five ways to boost the economy and create jobs]
Nope. If you had any doubt that higher taxes are still poisonous
policy in center-right America, all you had to do was listen to White
House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs yesterday. He briskly and precisely
walked back the White House from the ambiguous statements made by Tim
Geithner and Larry Summers on the Sunday chat shows. “I am reiterating
the president’s clear commitment in the clearest terms possible that
he’s not raising taxes on those who make less than $250,000 a year,”
Gibbs said.
But what’s so clear, Mr. Gibbs? “Commitment” in this context is a
schemer’s word, the much-weaker-yet-more-conniving sibling of
“guarantee.” Did Broadway Joe express a mushy “clear commitment” to
winning the 1969 Super Bowl? Clearly not. In any event, feel free to
ignore Gibbs or any other White Housespinmeister who gives the
impression that President Obama raising middle-class taxes would be the
equivalent of playing himself in a Hollywood biopic — so unlikely as to
be fanciful. It’s not and here’s why it will happen eventually:
http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/08/04/5-reasons-why-obama-will-hike-middle-class-taxes/