Why was Ronald Reagan trying to instigate class warfare all the time? Was he a socialist? Was he practicing the politics of jealousy? Did he hate the job creators? Or is it maybe just that we've moved so far to the right in this country that common sense ideas from Republican Superman from thirty years ago now line up with what passes for the far left's wacky hippie agenda?
However, if calling for an end to millionaires having lower tax rates than their secretaries is class warfare, Obama is only the latest class warrior to occupy the Oval Office. In a June 6, 1985 speech at Northside High School in Atlanta, Georgia, then President Ronald Reagan explained that tax loopholes allowing a millionaire to pay lower taxes that a bus driver were “crazy,” because they allowed the “truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share”:
We’re going to close the unproductive tax loopholes that allow some of the truly wealthy to avoid paying their fair share. In theory, some of those loopholes were understandable, but in practice they sometimes made it possible for millionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying ten percent of his salary, and that’s crazy. [...] Do you think the millionaire ought to pay more in taxes than the bus driver or less?
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This fell on deaf ears unfortunately. Someone should post this on Sean Reagan-Lover-in-Chief Hannity's facebook page.
Done - http://www.facebook.com/SeanHannity?sk=wall
I had to "like" the page but it was well worth it. Also, i do legitimately like listening to dude based on the entertainment I get from his particularly delusional insanity.
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