The package includes $275 billion in tax cuts, $25 billion less than what Obama originally proposed. The tax cuts also take up less than the 40 percent Obama initially suggested to win GOP support.
This is, of course, a lie. Net taxes will go up, and drastically. By net taxes, I mean that the Obama-Pelosi wallet-grab will impose, in toto, a much larger tax burden on taxpayers as a whole. Some may actually see a tax decrease of a minor nature, for a short time, but “the rich” (any family making more than $95 grand a year) will see an immediate, nasty hike.
Be sure to send the tax-and-big-spender Democrats a thank-you note. If you can afford a stamp. (You won’t be able to afford an internet connection….)
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When Obama says “tax cut”, he actually means “welfare payment”. There’s a deliberate effort underway to corrupt the concept of taxation and conflate it with government redistribution of income by way of tax credits. If successful, it will allow the Democrats to paint any attempt to eliminate welfare as a ‘tax increase’.
We need to be very watchful for this sort of conceptual redefinition. It’s the modern form of Orwellian newspeak. If “tax cut” means welfare payment, we’re literally left without any way to describe “reducing the amount of wealth taken from the productive by government”. Making it impossible for your opponents to even accurately describe their policy proposals is the perfect way of short-circuiting the need to defend your own.
You mean like the (largely successful) morphing of the word “spend(ing)” into “invest(ment)?”