February 7, 2005
Orwell Would be Proud
The doublespeak is moving along nicely. Is “rolling back” tax cuts identical to a “tax increase”? Yes, if you’re on the right. If you’re on the left, it’s simply giving money back to it’s rightful owner, the government. And John Kerry recently said as much on Meet The Press:
MR. RUSSERT: You’re saying raise taxes by rolling back the top bracket. You’re raising taxes on richer Americans to pay for Social Security.
SEN. KERRY: Well, Tim, you can call it what you want. I mean, if you think rolling back to the level that we had in the 1990s, when an awful lot of our friends made an awful lot of money and people did very well in America–if you think that’s raising taxes, then you can go ahead and have that definition. I think it’s rolling back. I think it’s rolling them back to a level of responsibility.
Maybe we Republicans need to get onto that sort of doublespeak. Maybe we should roll back to before Social Security was ever invented. Maybe we should rooooolll back the 16th Amendment. I’d call that a hell of a roll back.
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