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RUSH: We always hear about riots. We\u2019re going to have riots if that happens, going to have riots if that happens. Who are the people rioting? Who are the people protesting? Well, when you look at who they are the vast majority of them are supported by those of us who play by the rules, we go to work every day, and we pay our taxes. What do they have to riot about? When do we get to riot? Look at what we\u2019ve had to pay for. We\u2019ve had to pay for the second New Deal. The Great Society, LBJ comes along with the war on poverty, the Great Society. Now we\u2019re learning that we had to pay for a totally corrupt mortgage housing scandal in which Obama and ACORN are deeply embedded. <\/p>\n

We have people who were given loans who had no way of paying them back, they weren\u2019t even asked to state their income. And when we hear about all those foreclosures, people losing their homes, and we think, &ldquo;Oh, my gosh, our fellow citizens are being thrown out.&rdquo; No! It\u2019s the people who shoulda never been given the loans in the first place. It\u2019s the people who weren\u2019t paying them in the first place. It was people who were put into these homes when they had no business being put in these homes. It\u2019s not a brief against them. But this was a scheme and it was a tactic employed by the Democrat Party exclusively to create a never-ending and growing percentage of our population that was totally dependent and owed everything to the Democrat Party. Now their candidate and their guy, James Carville, &ldquo;Going to be very traumatic out there, very, very traumatic.&rdquo; We know what he means. <\/p>\n

When do we riot? When do we stand up and say, &ldquo;We have paid for all of this; we have played by the rules, and now you come to us and you tell us that the whole reason this happened is because we are unfair and we are too advantaged and we are too lucky, that it\u2019s not right that not everybody can win life\u2019s lottery?&rdquo; I\u2019m not suggesting riots, don\u2019t misunderstand, folks, I\u2019m just suggesting here that the people who are going to riot are the people who ought to be getting down and thanking every damn one of us, because the New Deal number two — and, by the way, I think we\u2019re in the midst of the New Deal number three here. And why do we need a New Deal number two if the New Deal number one didn\u2019t work? The New Deal number one did not work. <\/p>\n

It did not stop the Great Depression. World War II did. The New Deal number two, the Raw Deal, the Great Society and all of that, what did it do? Why are we having all these problems? Why do we still have poverty? Why do we still have people who are uneducated? Why do we still have people who are down and out with no future in sight? Why do we have families, particularly in the black community, who have been busted apart by all these well-intentioned — which I even suspect that\u2019s not true — programs such as the old AFDC promising, &ldquo;Go ahead, have another kid, pop it out of the oven, here\u2019s another $1,500 bucks a month.&rdquo; So we destroy the family with a New Deal number two, the whole community, and, well, we do deal number three, which is what we\u2019re looking at now with all these massive bailouts that might be required. So it\u2019s a variation on the theme of Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. After awhile John Galt said, &ldquo;Screw it, I\u2019m checking out. I\u2019m through supporting everybody else, not my job, not my responsibility, not when they\u2019re not trying to help themselves.&rdquo; Atlas Shrugged. <\/p>\n

To the phones, because it\u2019s Open Line Friday. Normally we don\u2019t go to the phones for at least 90 minutes on this program, but we\u2019re going to get there early because it\u2019s Open Line Friday. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re going to start in Goshen, Indiana. This is Jamie, and it\u2019s great to have you here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, first I gotta say, thank you and God bless you for all the work that you do, and you don\u2019t know how much people appreciate the truth that you bring to us.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thanks, Jamie, very much. I appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question is, I\u2019m a little confused with the liberals and the Democrats. You said earlier that they have, you know, the liberals are all these rich people that have all this money, but all they want to do is tax us. Won\u2019t they be taxing themselves and getting rid of their own money?<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is an excellent question, it\u2019s an excellent question, and if this crisis were not going on right now, the answer to the question would be what I\u2019m going to give you, but it\u2019s changed a little bit. The first answer to the question is there\u2019s a big difference in income and wealth. When you hear we\u2019re going to raise taxes on the rich, we\u2019re starting at $250,000 and going on up. Now, if you make a lot of income, earned income, it\u2019s called, in tax lingo, then the income tax rates, as you earn more, the marginal rates increase apply to you. But if you are wealthy and you have inherited a lot of money or you\u2019ve earned a lot of money and now you don\u2019t take any earned income, you live off of the interest or the growth of your portfolio, then you\u2019re paying and living off capital gains, which is 15% right now. You\u2019re not paying anywhere near 39 to 50, and you\u2019re not paying any state income tax. <\/p>\n

And so when we talk about the rich, we had a great call here yesterday, Jamie. This guy was so right on the money. The Democrats out there, Obama talking about the American dream. Well, the American dream stops with Obama when you make $250 grand. Once you make $250 grand, that\u2019s when they\u2019re going to start taking it away from you. That\u2019s when your tax rates goes up and that\u2019s when you keep less of what you earn by a significant amount. The rich Democrats that always seem to not mind when taxes go up are genuinely wealthy. They\u2019re not working and earning, and I\u2019m talking about Democrats in Congress, Democrats in think tanks in Washington, Democrats in New York. I\u2019m not talking about the rank-and-file Democrats across the country who have no idea how they\u2019re being scammed. I\u2019m talking about the elite Democrats who pass tax increase legislation. I for the longest time said, &ldquo;What am I missing here? Why do these guys want to raise taxes on themselves?&rdquo; It\u2019s not about raising taxes on themselves. They don\u2019t do that. It\u2019s about controlling everybody else\u2019s life, by limiting your freedom, by limiting how much disposable income you have. <\/p>\n

Now, this has changed, however. This is a dual-edged sword for Obama because everybody says this is a slam-dunk, why, this economic collapse is going to send him over the finish line. There are a lot of Democrats who make a lot of money who had pretty big portfolios like everybody else, they\u2019re down 20, 30%, depending on how much they\u2019re invested in the stock market. And nobody likes losing 20 to 30% of what they have saved or more. It scares them, and then you pile on top of that the new president is going to raise your taxes even more? So I think your question, why would Democrats want to vote for somebody that\u2019s going to raise taxes? Some of them may not this year. I\u2019m talking about rank-and-file Democrats across the country, not the elitists in the Senate and the House and everywhere else, bureaucracies, New York, Wall Street, who write tax law, support it and so forth. <\/p>\n

These people in New York that we\u2019re talking about on Wall Street and all this corporate greed stuff, these guys, they\u2019re all Democrats that run in these financial places with the exception of one big place, they\u2019re all liberal Democrats, and they have been hurt. And when you have 50 million and all of a sudden it becomes 25 or 30, you are not happy. You don\u2019t sit there and say, &ldquo;Well, I\u2019ve still got 25 or 30 left.&rdquo; You are not happy just like when you lose 25 or 30% of what you have. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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