Kerry shows his true class warfare colors
John Kerry is certainly showing his true class warfare colors. In this FoxNews.com article he makes it clear that what his views are on taxes and income classes of people. The background info:
The flap was prompted by an exchange between Bush and a supporter who asked during a town-hall meeting in Niceville, Fla., about Bush’s position on legislation for a national sales tax.
“He’s talking about getting rid of the current tax system and replacing it with a national sales tax,” Bush told his audience. “It’s an interesting idea. You know, I’m not exactly sure how big the national sales tax is going to have to be, but it’s the kind of interesting idea that we ought to explore seriously.”
Now that you have the actual context of what was said and what happened, you then get to see John Kerry’s comments about it.
Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry (search) seized on Bush’s comments — made while the president was campaigning in Florida Tuesday — and suggested such a plan would create a new tax on working families.“Families already squeezed by rising health care costs, gas costs and college costs would have to carry a whole new tax burden,” Kerry said in a statement.
First you need to keep in mind that this is coming from Kerry who has in the past suggested an astronomical national gas tax (so it is funny for him to be complaining about gas prices and the burden on families). So clearly what we have here is that Kerry thinks either the American people are stupid enough to think that Bush really meant that we should have a national sales tax in addition to the current sales tax (even though he said he didn’t), or what he is really pushing for is that he wants “working” famililes to pay little or no taxes and for all the “rich” tax payers to shoulder the majority of the burden. The real problem here is that this is classic class warfare. I personally like the national sales tax idea or a more flat income tax. There is nothing inherently fair about a progressive income tax. A percentage of a small amount is a small amount and that same percentage of a large amount is a large amount. There is even the classic Biblical argument — if 10% is good enough for God then why isn’t good enough for the government? Instead we have folks like Kerry that feel like we just need to continue to shift the tax burden to the wealthiest Americans. It’s no wonder that half of the Americans polled a year or two ago said we didn’t need a tax cut because roughly half of Americans don’t pay income tax anyway. That’s absurd!