Hillary WILL Raise Taxes, don't worry its a Patriotic Tax Hike!

In the last Democratic Presidential debate Senator Hillary Clinton spoke once again about raising taxes for the wealthy in America. She said, "We have to change the tax system and we've got to get back to having those with the most contribute to this country." It sounds to me like she is saying that wealthy Americans do not contribute to society. Perhaps she doesn't think that the jobs they create, their philanthropic endeavors, and the taxes they pay are just quite enough. Maybe since they have been fortunate enough to be considered "wealthy" she would like to just strip them of their fortune to fatten up government bureaucracy...oh wait, that is what she is trying to do.

Hillary has surrounded herself with people like Warren Buffett, who referred to Republicans as the type who think, "I'm making $80 million a year, God must have intended me to have a lower tax rate." You must be right Mr. Buffett, that is how Republicans think. Hillary described Buffett as, "He's honest enough to say, look, tax me because I'm a patriotic American." This sounds like she is describing someone who is not all there in the head.

What these hate-the-world/save-the-world people have yet to realize is that successful businessmen do pay taxes, they pay more than I do. Middle-class Americans, like myself, will be encouraged to despise wealthy Americans if Hillary's influence succeeds. Though the wealthy pay more taxes than the rest of us, she wants us to think that they don't. It doesn't sound to me like she really wants to unite Americans, so much as pin them against each other.

I personally believe that we all pay too many taxes. I think that people would be more inclined to give money to causes if they weren't forced to do so. The more that is taken away from us, the less we will give, and this is doubly so for the wealthy Americans who are more philanthropic than I am.

http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/AmandaCarpenter/2007/06/29/hillary_clinton’s_‘patriotic’_tax_hike

In her own defense...

Hillary defended her excessive use of oil-burning jets in Las Vegas. She said that she "did not believe her message was undermined by her acceptance of the private flights." She referred to the Senate rules on this matter by saying, "those were the rules. You'll have to ask somebody else whether that's good policy."

This defense sounds more like that of a child than a mature adult running for president. Isn't it her job to make "good" policy and just laws. Not that she has done an acceptable job of that in the past. I would challenge her to prove her love for the middle-class by living that lifestyle for one month. Surely, she would have to admit her hypocrisies then.

Hillary, the middle-class savior

While campaigning in Iowa this weekend, the presidential candidate said that "we need to get back to the rich beginning to pay their fair share." http://usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-04-21-clinton-iowa_N.htm

So, she wants to increase taxes for the wealthy, yet she mentions nothing about lowering taxes for the middle class. Now I don't want to see government deficits, but I don't like seeing government surpluses under democratic leadership. If the government has a budget surplus, that tells me that we are being taxed too much. We certainly aren't going to be getting any of that money back with another Clinton in office.