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Originally posted by matthew330
This is a false statement.
"There is no point taxing the rich because they just dodge their tax bill anyway, President George Bush said"
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President Bush did say that, just not in those exact words. That's why that sentence was not quoted to him. Anyone who can read Bush's full statement (I quoted it for you early in the thread) and still think that President Bush is in favor of taxing the rich needs to take reading comprehension lessons.
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The author never went to whitehouse.gov and referenced some chart that he believed was essentially Bush saying "Dont' tax the rich."
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No, he referenced Bush's own words.
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He wanted to fool people into having the reaction the original poster did - "He wants the poor people to shoulder all the tax burden" (as if that were possible anyway).
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That's your interpretation, not mine. See, it seems to me that Bush isn't real good about predicting the future consequences of his actions today. Case in point, he predicted a quick war in Iraq. He predicted we'd find WMD's. He predicted a largescale world support for the war. Instead he's got a quagmire in iraq, no WMD's, and he has the whole world pissed at us. The point here is not to redirect this thread into an argument over Bush's warmongering record, but to point out that Bush isn't very good at projecting consequences.
Seems to me that his goal is to reduce the tax burden on the rich. Nothing else is really entering the equation in his mind. Under his plan we'll either have to up taxes on the non-rich or we'll start losing more money, but unfortunately he hasn't considered that.
I guess what I'm saying is that we have a real simpleton at the helm right now who is unwilling (and has admitted - no, that's the wrong word - has bragged many times that he's unwilling) to inform himself to the level required to make intelligent decisions.