Let Us Now Praise the 1 Percent

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National Review:

The scariest thing about lies is that if they are repeated often enough, people eventually assume that they are true, especially when they go largely unchallenged by the victims of those very lies.

The president of the United States has lied so often about “the 1 percent” that even House speaker John Boehner, and some wobbly Republicans, have swallowed Obama’s toxic fiction that “fairness” requires the rich to surrender more of their money to Washington — albeit through narrower deductions rather than higher tax rates.

Washington’s problem is not a paucity of revenues but a nicotine-like addiction to blowing through other people’s money, coupled with a lust for Chinese debt. Thus, Republicans from Boehner on down should reject tax hikes on anyone, especially to satisfy Obama