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RUSH: David Obey wants to raise taxes on everybody to pay for the Afghanistan war. Last night ABC\u2019s World News Tonight Jonathan Karl had an interview with him.<\/p>\n

OBEY: If we don\u2019t pay for it, then the cost of the Afghan war will wipe out every other initiative that we have to try to rebuild our own economy whether it\u2019s the president\u2019s; whether it\u2019s the Democrats in Congress, whether it\u2019s the Republicans. Ain\u2019t going to be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s just not true. It\u2019s another fraudulent lie from one of the Four Corners of Deceit: Government. ‘Ain\u2019t gonna be no money for nothing if we pour it all into Afghanistan\u2019? We don\u2019t have any money now, you locoweed! We\u2019re $1.4 trillion in debt. I\u2019ll tell you what we should do, given what he said here. ‘If we don\u2019t pay for it, then the cost of the Afghan war will wipe out every other initiative…\u2019 Let\u2019s pay for the Afghan war then and wipe out every damned one of these stupid, destructive initiatives. There was more. Karl said, ‘Talk us through exactly what you\u2019re proposing here.\u2019<\/p>\n

OBEY: We\u2019ve been told for the last year that we have to pay for every dime that the new health care reform bill will cost, and that\u2019s estimated to be about $900 billion over two years.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not true. It\u2019s $2 trillion!<\/p>\n

OBEY: At the same time we\u2019re being told by people who support General McChrystal\u2019s approach to expanding the war in Afghanistan that we need to be prepared to hunker down and accept what could be a decade-long commitment in Afghanistan. If we do what has been in the papers about the size of that package, that also is about $900 billion. Except that\u2019s not being paid for. So what we\u2019re suggesting is that if we\u2019re going to pay for health care, we also ought to pay for whatever we\u2019re doing in Afghanistan if we decide to go ahead.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re not ‘paying for\u2019 anything. How can you say we\u2019re paying for it when we\u2019re $1.4 trillion in debt? It\u2019s not $900 billion, it\u2019s $2.5 trillion. The whole thing is rigged. The tax increases start three years before the payouts. That\u2019s how it\u2019s made to look like it doesn\u2019t cost anything. Deficit neutral? When\u2019s the last time anything government did that did not cost more than what they projected? When\u2019s the last time a government program came in below cost? Well, Medicare Part D did, but that was Bush. And finally, ‘Let me ask you about your motives. Two years ago you proposed a similar tax on the war in Iraq. It was a nonstarter then. What makes you think your colleagues are going to support it now?\u2019<\/p>\n

OBEY: I don\u2019t know if they will, but two years ago the economy had not yet collapsed. Two years ago we didn\u2019t have a runaway deficit which we have now thanks to the collapse of that economy. And two years ago, we weren\u2019t being asked to expand another effort in Afghanistan that we\u2019re told might last ten years. We saw the progressive movement in this country back before the twenties wiped out by World War I. We saw Harry Truman\u2019s Fair Deal wiped out by Korea. We saw Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Great Society wiped out by Vietnam. I don\u2019t want to see the restructuring and reforming of our own economy wiped out because we get stuck in a ten-year war, a war that isn\u2019t paid for.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What in the name of Sam Hill is he talking about? Lyndon Johnson\u2019s Great Society wiped out by Vietnam? It was no such thing. That\u2019s insane! Spending on the Fair Deal, the New Deal, the Rotten Deal, the Raw Deal and the Great Society, never stopped. We\u2019re still spending on it! It\u2019s an entitlement. The Vietnam War didn\u2019t wipe out anything except the United States. It didn\u2019t wipe out any of these programs. This is what I mean, folks. They live in The Universe of Lies and Fraud. The Four Corners of Deceit are government (who you just heard from) academia, science and media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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