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Tax
Rich Liberals
by Ann Coulter
Dec 12, 2012
Republicans
have been forced into a
Hobson's choice of either letting the Bush tax cuts expire for everyone
or
agreeing to a tax hike on the top 2 percent of income earners (not to
be
confused with "the rich," who have already made, inherited or married
their money).
If
Republicans object to the
Democrats' hitting job creators with a tax hike, three things will
happen:
Taxes will go up for everyone; Republicans will be seen as the "party
of
the rich"; and the inevitable economic collapse will be blamed on
Republicans.
If
Democrats were merely trying to
raise taxes on the rich in a vacuum, it would be easier for Republicans
to
oppose raising anyone's taxes. But because the Bush tax cuts are only
temporary, unless the high-income earners' taxes go up, everyone's
taxes revert
to pre-Bush tax rates.
Republicans
cannot be the party
that raised everyone's tax rates to prove that they can't be pushed
around by
the Democratic Senate and Democratic president. You don't want
job-killing tax
hikes on producers? Vote Republican next time.
It
is not helpful to complain,
"But Republicans will be blamed no matter what they do!" Yes -- true.
When has that not been true? It's not a novel insight, and it's
certainly not
an argument for handing our enemies a baseball bat to bludgeon us with.
Consider
that the media's neurotic
fixation on an alleged Republican "War on Women" was going nowhere.
It wasn't even working with soccer moms -- until Todd Akin and Richard
Mourdock
started prattling about rape and abortion.
Suggestion
for Republicans: Stop
living up to the Non-Fox Media's stereotype of us as woman-hating
Cro-Magnons
who care only about the rich.
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