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RUSH: I mentioned the other day that we\u2019re losing the language, and this tax cut issue provides me an excellent illustration, a teachable moment as to how we\u2019re losing the language. In the news, and in this AP story I just put to the bottom of the stack here — and look what\u2019s in the headline. ‘Nearly Half Oppose Tax Hikes for Rich.\u2019<\/p>\n

Tax increases. You go through and it\u2019s, ‘Tax increases, tax increases, tax increases, tax increases\u2019 and ‘tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts.\u2019 So in the news, we\u2019re debating tax cuts. In the real world, in real English, the issue is not tax cuts, but tax increases. The tax code is what it is. The income tax rates are what they are, and they are current, and they are in the tax code. If those tax rates expire and we go to the what the rates were prior to their imposition, then what we have is a tax increase. And yet the media is joining Obama in his incessant call for tax cuts for the middle class. Obama is going to cut nobody\u2019s taxes. If he goes along with this notion of not having the Bush tax cuts expire, we\u2019re just leaving the tax code as it is. Nobody\u2019s taxes are gonna get cut. <\/p>\n

But Obama wants credit for cutting taxes, and the media is trying to help him do that. The left is saying they want to cut taxes for the middle class. But they\u2019re not offering tax cuts in real English. What they are saying is they don\u2019t want to raise taxes on the middle class right now. Right now. ‘Til after the election. So in their own words, will rates go down next year? No, the rates are gonna stay the same. If nothing is done the rates will stay the same. There are no tax cuts on the table here, folks. If you hear the media talking about Obama\u2019s tax cuts, ‘Democrats are working hard to secure tax cuts for the middle class,\u2019 there\u2019s no such thing being contemplated. There is no such thing. There is no tax cut on anybody\u2019s table right now. <\/p>\n

All that\u2019s on the table is the current rates not expire. And if the current rates do expire on anybody, and the old rates which are higher go into effect, you have a tax increase. We are effectively talking about whether or not to increase taxes. Nobody is talking about cutting them. Except us. I, you, me, all of us know that we\u2019ve got to cut taxes further, and we\u2019ve gotta target the private sector, get out of its way. Get the obstacles and restrictions out of its way. Get rid of the capital gains tax for a period of time. Reduce the corporate tax down to 20% or whatever, and lower people\u2019s taxes. We keep hearing about, ‘The American people have to sacrifice in tough times like these.\u2019 Well, the American people… What the hell is 10% unemployment, for crying out loud? <\/p>\n

The American people are sacrificing! You know who doesn\u2019t sacrifice? You know the greatest repository of greed in the world is? It\u2019s in Washington, DC, and everybody who lives off the pile of money that piles in there every day. The greed is on every elected official. The greed is in every bureaucracy. The greed is in the Oval Office. The one bunch that never, ever sacrifices is in Washington. Never. And it\u2019s time they sacrificed. It\u2019s time the American people were allowed to keep more of what they earn so there\u2019s an incentive to go out and work and earn. But nobody is talking tax cuts. But they want you to believe that Obama is going to cut taxes for the middle class. He\u2019s not going to do that, anything of the sort. Tax cuts to Obama is like the cross to Dracula. So this is an illustration of how we are losing the language. Is the capital gains tax rate going to go down? No. Will the dividend tax rate go down? No. All these are going up! All of these rates are increasing. Nothing\u2019s going down, and yet you can\u2019t escape ‘Obama! Tax cuts! Middle class.\u2019 This is how we\u2019ve lost the language. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I mentioned the other day that we\u2019re losing the language, and this tax cut issue provides me an excellent illustration, a teachable moment as to how we\u2019re losing the language. 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