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RUSH: Now, folks, Obama is out, as I mentioned, he\u2019s already announcing details of the upcoming State of the Union show, and one of the big deals — and right here, in fact. TheHill.com has it right there: “Obama Plays Robin Hood.” Now, that\u2019s wrong, by the way. <\/p>\n

The story of Robin Hood is routinely misrepresented. The story of Robin Hood as represented is that Robin Hood and his band of merry men and Lady Marian, who was there for the sex, decided to leave Sherwood Forest every now and then and go steal things from the rich and give \u2019em back to other people in the forest and Lady Marian. <\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not what Robin Hood did. Robin Hood didn\u2019t steal from the rich. He stole from the government. That\u2019s what they never tell you, but it\u2019s plain as day, if you ever watched the Robin Hood show. I did when I was growing up. Black and white. Lady Marian. You knew what she was there for. But the sheriff of Nottingham, what was Nottingham? The government. That\u2019s who was always trying to catch Robin Hood. He was stealing from them. <\/p>\n

Basically what Robin Hood was trying to do was simply get back the money that had been confiscated in the form of confiscatory taxes. He was not stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. That\u2019s one of the biggest myths that\u2019s ever come down the pike. So when TheHill.com<\/a> says “Obama Plays Robin Hood,” that\u2019s not what Obama — well, Obama is doing that, but it\u2019s not Robin Hood. Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor is a fairytale. It\u2019s redistributionist. Robin Hood was a tax protester. Obama is not playing Robin Hood. Obama is going to play Jonathan Gruber<\/a>. Obama is hoping the American people are too stupid to realize that these tax increases that he has proposed will actually impact the middle class the greatest. <\/line><\/p>\n

Obama\u2019s reason for this is the supposedly continuing widening gap between rich and poor. The wealthy, there\u2019s a stat that\u2019s out there today, and I\u2019m telling you, folks, this is the kind of thing that you need to greet with skepticism like you\u2019ve never had skepticism before. There is a statistic, and it comes from some supposed respectable outfit — must say I\u2019ve never heard of it — and the statistic today is that 1% of the world\u2019s population controls over half the world\u2019s wealth. <\/p>\n

Well, let me tell you right away why that\u2019s bogus. The world\u2019s wealth, much more than half of it, is in the hands of governments. It is not in the hands of private citizens, for crying out loud. That\u2019s simple math. And yet here we go, here we go, we\u2019re now being told that the rich, what do they do? They steal and they\u2019ve been stealing and they\u2019re continuing to steal, and who do they steal from? The middle class and the poor. Why, who knew those people had so damn much money? The rich continue to steal, and they\u2019ve stolen so much now that the 1% of the rich now have half the money in the world. <\/p>\n

Well, folks, it\u2019s easy to believe because you\u2019ve been built up for it. You\u2019ve been hearing that 1% controls this percentage of wealth, that percentage, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, finally reach the brink of 1% over half. I would reject that off the top. I don\u2019t know how anybody could ever prove that anyway. I don\u2019t know how mathematically that could ever be established, despite the fact this group, whoever it is, claims to have done it. But the point is, Obama is riding that, and he\u2019s using this continuing gap between rich and poor to say, “Look, if the rich are not gonna share their money. I mean, if all the rich are gonna do is just keep taking it and taking it and taking it, then, by golly, by gosh, I\u2019m gonna go get it back from \u2019em for you.” And you\u2019re supposed to go, “Yay, Obama!” <\/p>\n

So Obama\u2019s proposed a bunch of massive new tax increases on the, quote, unquote, wealthy. And those tax increases on the wealthy, where\u2019s the money gonna go? To you? No. It\u2019s gonna go to the government. And Obama\u2019s buddies are gonna get it right back again. You\u2019re never gonna see it. Obama wants you to think you\u2019re gonna see it. He wants you to think he\u2019s gonna raise taxes on the rich, the rich are gonna pay these new taxes, all this new money is gonna be coming into Washington\/ Obama\u2019s gonna take it he\u2019s gonna be giving it all back to those of you that deserve it more.<\/line><\/p>\n

And that is not how you get rich in America. It is not how you end up in the middle class. To end up in the middle class, you gotta work. To end up in the upper middle class, you gotta work or be born a Kennedy. If you want to end up being in the top 5%, you gotta work. Nobody in the top 5% is getting redistributed money. Nobody in the top 5%, nobody in the top 10% is sitting there idly waiting for government to redistribute. They are out working. <\/p>\n

This is so bogus. This is another attack on trickle-down, how the rich are not spending, the rich are not giving, the rich are not donating, the rich are not this or that, and therefore you\u2019re ending up with less. And so Obama wants you to think, those of you in the middle class, lower middle class, whatever, don\u2019t even think about getting a job, that\u2019s not the way out. The way we\u2019re gonna get things even, the way we\u2019re gonna take care of you is raise taxes on the 1% and redistribute the money. <\/p>\n

Well, how in the hell are you gonna get it? Do you know anybody, let\u2019s say in your town, the rich part of town, everybody knows where this, go drive through the rich part of town and you see a big house, you think, “Well, probably got junk cars, \u2019cause who could afford — and then you see the car, you know, maybe a couple hundred grand of car sitting outside in the driveway. You see the big house. And then you see the wife leave the house. You see the jewels and the diamonds and all that, you say, “Holy smokes!” Do you think they\u2019re sitting around waiting for redistributed wealth to come their way? They\u2019re not. <\/p>\n

This whole idea of redistributing wealth with the false premise that this is gonna somehow improve people\u2019s standard of living, this is absurd. It\u2019s always been absurd. But this class envy business never fails, it seems to work. It\u2019s a puzzling thing, and you know why it works, actually? Because the middle class, some of them, and the poor have been conditioned over a number of years to cheer what they think is the rich suffering. And it stops there. It doesn\u2019t matter whether the rich suffering means an additional 10 grand a year to the poor, \u2019cause it doesn\u2019t. Just the fact that the rich are gonna pay some more taxes, that\u2019s enough alone to do it. Whether it\u2019s gonna benefit you or not — and it won\u2019t — doesn\u2019t matter. The idea that Obama\u2019s gonna take it to \u2019em, that\u2019s all a lot of people need to support it. <\/p>\n

Now, the conventional wisdom is that Obama\u2019s tax increases don\u2019t stand a prayer, but the Republicans now control both the House and the Senate, and there\u2019s no way, Jose, that the Republicans are going to agree to Obama\u2019s massive tax increases and redistribution scheme. And on the surface I would agree with that. But there was a day when the Republicans would never sign on to comprehensive immigration reform amnesty either. There was also a day when the Republicans would not give up on implementing Obamacare and agree with that, too.<\/p>\n

So with this current crop and with the fear of opposing Obama as big as it\u2019s ever been, you oppose Obama, you\u2019re a racist. You criticize Obama, you\u2019re a racist, it\u2019s up for grabs here. So the key, to me, is going to be how the Republicans react to this in the language they use. And I think they\u2019ve been using the wrong language. I have, too. This is a recent conclusion of mine. We\u2019ve been using the wrong language for a long time. And the truth of it is found — remember that exit poll question that I just — I cringed when I saw it, 2012, first wave at five o\u2019clock, “Cares about people like me,” Obama 81%, Romney 19%. That was the election, that and the other question that showed that over half still blame Bush for the morbid state of the economy. <\/line><\/p>\n

But that exit poll question, “Cares about people like me,” Obama 81, Romney 19, you might as well read that Democrats 81, Republicans 19. How do you change that? Romney, I think blew it big time, although nobody knew it at the time. Well, I had an inkling of it. If you\u2019ll recall, I observed, I said, “I wish Romney would stop talking about the private sector so damn much.” You remember me saying that? ‘Cause he kept going on and on about how he\u2019d done this and he\u2019d done that in the private sector. The private sector here, private sector there. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m thinking that that term is starting to turn people off \u2019cause it sounds exclusive. It sounds exclusionary. Private sector? What\u2019s the first word? Private. What does that mean? Means stay out. You know, words mean things to people. Private sector? They don\u2019t know that the private sector is just the economy. Public sector is the government. Public sector, good. That\u2019s where the parks are. That\u2019s where the zoo is. Public sector? Wow, that\u2019s where I can go. Private sector? I\u2019m not allowed. Yet we keep talking about it. Bad move. <\/p>\n

I think another thing that Republicans need to stop talking about in response to proposals like Obama\u2019s, and it\u2019s related to this 81-19 business, it\u2019s related to something else, too. The age-old cliche is that Big Business supports Republicans and the rich and everybody else supports Democrats, poor, what have you. The Republicans make the mistake — this is a new realization. Actually, it\u2019s a shame this is a mistake. I\u2019m admitting here cowing to the lack of perception of the low-information crowd. But when, for example, Obama proposed these tax increases, “This is gonna have a horrible effect on business. It\u2019s gonna make it tougher to hire.” Nobody has any sympathy for business. <\/p>\n

Even though you work for a business, very few people are not gonna listen to complaints or concerns about business. And it\u2019s all there in the 81-19 question, “Cares about people like me.” Republicans are gonna have to find a way — and I\u2019ll help — to oppose Obama-like or Democrat Party-like massive redistributionist tax increases with language that explains what they\u2019re really all about. The Republican Party, conservatives, oppose these tax increases \u2019cause they\u2019re gonna hurt the middle class. But it sounds like we oppose it \u2019cause it\u2019s gonna hurt business. <\/p>\n

Well, it is gonna hurt business, and business is where the middle class is employed, but that\u2019s already too complicated. It requires an assumption that the middle class is gonna be sympathetic to business \u2019cause business is who employs them. Remember, 92.8 million Americans aren\u2019t working and don\u2019t care about business, and they don\u2019t care about entrepreneurs because they aren\u2019t either one. <\/p>\n

Obama coming along and talking about raising taxes on the rich, promising to take that money and give it to the people rather than businesses and entrepreneurs and the private sector is gonna win every time. <\/line><\/p>\n

Now, the intention is honorable in defending business, particularly small business. You\u2019re defending the backbone of America. But it requires a big assumption, and that assumption is that a majority of the voting public also understands, and is sympathetic to, the effect on business of these massive tax increases and that the effect on business of massive tax increases hurts the middle class. We have to assume they figure that all out. And I don\u2019t think we can assume they\u2019re gonna figure that out anymore. I\u2019m not talking about you in this audience. I\u2019m talking about the low-information crowd and the paying-half-attention crowd and the unemployed community and what have you. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m just telling you, no matter what, no matter when, there isn\u2019t gonna be any sympathy for something called a business. And there isn\u2019t gonna be any sympathy for something called an entrepreneur. And there isn\u2019t gonna be any sympathy for what happens to people in the private sector. There just isn\u2019t. The Democrats somehow own the appeal to middle-class people on the basis that all those other things are wrapped up and aimed against \u2019em. Business is not their friend, entrepreneurs are not their friend, the rich are not their friend. The Democrats are their friend. <\/p>\n

I arrive at this painfully, \u2019cause it\u2019s true. I mean, Obama\u2019s tax increases are gonna destroy business, but the problem is there\u2019s a whole bunch of Americans that probably applaud that, stupidly, dumbly, but they do, because of what they\u2019ve been conditioned to believe about business. The Democrat Party\u2019s enemies list is a business, it\u2019s an industry. Everywhere you go, Big Oil, Big Box Retail, whatever. And here come the Republicans seen as the guys that want to defend all of that, and who are they? They\u2019re the rich. They\u2019re the 1%. <\/p>\n

So there\u2019s gonna have to be some switcheroos here in just language, not belief, not policy or philosophy. But I\u2019m telling you it\u2019s all wrapped up here in this 81-19 question, “Cares about people like me.” “Someone who cares about people like me.” <\/p>\n

I gotta take a brief time-out. And, by the way, I\u2019m gonna be developing this further. This is my initial putting this in play out there, think piece for you and me as well. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Now, these sound bites I talked about, I\u2019m gonna get to \u2019em in a minute. And more on this effort I think needs to be made here to change the language a little bit in opposing these tax increases and why. The focus has to be on how these tax increases do not help the middle class. But in doing it, you can\u2019t talk about how business gets punished because that assumes people are gonna understand that when business gets punished, they lose, too. The Democrats have been too successfully at demonizing business so that a whole bunch of their voters love it when business takes it in the shorts. It\u2019s a crime, but they have. And we\u2019ll get to it in more detail as time goes on. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: It\u2019s very frustrating, because what Obama is proposing with his tax increase, the redistribution of wealth, is socialism. And you can\u2019t find a single time in the world where it\u2019s ever worked. It has failed for a thousand years. Yet, people keep endlessly supporting it, whether they know that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing or not. It\u2019s frustrating as hell. So here we go again! Another Democrat proposes another tax increase on the rich, and that\u2019s all that\u2019s happened. <\/p>\n

The tax increase on the rich already happened under Obamacare. They just haven\u2019t been called that, but that\u2019s what they are. How\u2019s that helping everybody? But more than that, how in the world does anybody end up well off as the recipient of redistributed wealth? That\u2019s not how anybody gets ahead or gets anywhere. Like I say, if you\u2019re a low-information person out there and you look upon the rich in your town or the well-to-do in your town with envy, go there!<\/p>\n

Drive through the neighborhood if you can get through the gate. Some of them don\u2019t have gates. You can drive through, and as you\u2019re driving by these big houses that you look lustily at, ask yourself if you think the people in them are waiting for a government check to pay for it! Ask yourself, “What do they do for a living that allows them to live in these houses?” But the idea that the rich are inherently evil? I mean, this has been played over and over again. Mao Tse-tung, Fidel Castro, the ChiComs. Over and over.<\/p>\n

The Soviet Union, you name it!<\/p>\n

Every time it\u2019s tried, it ultimately fails and in many places it causes revolutions, as in France before John Kerry was able to get there with James Taylor and save the day. (That\u2019s so embarrassing. I still can\u2019t believe that.) For thousands of years we\u2019ve been trying this income redistribution scheme, and it never works. It has never worked. Except psychologically. See, the key is psychologically. It makes people happy when they hear or are made to believe or think the rich are gonna suffer.<\/p>\n

That alone makes it worth it to \u2019em, even though it doesn\u2019t mean anything more for them. The Democrats have done a great job, I think, of creating this atmosphere of hate, resentment, envy, jealousy, what have you. It\u2019s sick. But I\u2019m just telling you that responding to it by appearing to defend “the private sector” or “business,” obviously doesn\u2019t work. It doesn\u2019t cut through the noise. It just doesn\u2019t. So there has to be new ways of opposing this and announcing your opposition and how you do it. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t even know if explaining how it\u2019s never worked for thousands of years would matter, \u2019cause everybody thinks, “Well it might the next time, Rush. You never know. It might the next time! We might have the right people trying it now. You never know.” (sigh) You never know what you\u2019re gonna run into out there in terms of idiots. Okay, audio sound bite. Bob Schieffer. He was stunned when he heard this, Bob Schieffer of Face the Nation. Literally stunned. He had White House advisor Dan Pfeiffer on yesterday, Face the Nation. He couldn\u2019t believe that they were gonna do this.<\/p>\n

SCHIEFFER: Do you — in any way, shape, or form — believe that a new Republican Congress —<\/line><\/p>\n

PFEIFFER: (snickers)<\/p>\n

SCHIFFER: — is gonna do what a Congress that had Democrats and Republicans in control would not do? I mean, is this for real? Do you really think there\u2019s a chance that something like this could pass?<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s talking about these massive tax increases. Now, he would love it. Don\u2019t be fooled by Bob Schieffer. Bob Schieffer would love it if it would pass. Don\u2019t misunderstand. He just can\u2019t believe it. “You mean, you\u2019re gonna do it now? After six years, seven years, you\u2019re gonna do it now when Republicans run everything?” Bob, if you\u2019d stop and think for a moment you\u2019d know exactly why this makes sense now! <\/p>\n

If these guys just had the slightest understanding of who Obama is and what he\u2019s trying to do and how he\u2019s trying to achieve it, it makes perfect sense that he would propose it when the Republicans won things. Why? Because who\u2019s gonna get blamed when people don\u2019t get any new money? The Republicans. Bob will figure this out and he\u2019ll sign on to it, maybe by tonight or tomorrow. He\u2019ll figure it out eventually. Here\u2019s Dan Pfeiffer from the White House trying to explain to Bob, “Why now?”<\/p>\n

PFEIFFER: This plan the president\u2019s gonna talk about on Tuesday night goes to what is the core theme of the State of the Union which is middle class economics: The simple proposition that we should ask the wealthy to pay a little more and invest more in the middle class, give the middle class a raise. We should have a debate in this country about — between middle class economics and trickle-down economics.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See? You hear all the lies in there? “Well, see what\u2019s gonna happen here, middle class economics: Simple proposition that we ask the wealthy to pay a little more, invest more in the middle class, give it middle class a raise.” Sorry, folks, that\u2019s not how it happens. The government gets the raise. How the hell does the middle class get the raise? Okay, so you raise taxes on Big, Bad, Evil, Rich Guy. You make him pay a little bit more for the money he earns on his stocks. <\/p>\n

You make him pay a little bit more on the dividends he gets on his stocks. Okay, so the rich guy pays the money on his tax return. Where\u2019s the money go? Right there: “United States Treasury.” You all write the check. (Well, some of you don\u2019t.) That\u2019s where the money goes. How does it get from the United States Treasury to you, this “raise” that Pfeiffer\u2019s talking about here? “Give the middle class a raise”? How the hell does that happen? Somebody trace the money for me. <\/p>\n

Rich guy, probably one of the Koch brothers, gets hit with a massive tax increase. Washington collects the money — if the Koch brothers don\u2019t try to evade it and move to the Caymans — and the money goes to the US Treasury, and from there how does it get to you? Does Obama write you a check? If so, for how much and how often? Do you get a raise up to 50 grand a year for the rest of your life? How does this work? Of course not. The fact is, you never see the money. <\/p>\n

The next thing that will happen is Obama\u2019s got all this new money, and he\u2019s gonna spend it on projects to help the middle class. Well, what are those gonna be? I don\u2019t know what it is, but none of it\u2019s gonna end up in your back pocket. The dirty little secret is that for all these rich guys paying new taxes, some people are gonna lose their jobs because their businesses are gonna be impacted by these tax increases. See, this is the point the Republicans try to make.<\/p>\n

“You raise taxes on the rich and you\u2019re raising taxes on small business owners. You\u2019re raising taxes on medium-sized business owners. What they\u2019re gonna do is one of two things, maybe both. They\u2019re gonna raise prices so the consumer pays their tax increase (which is you) or they\u2019re gonna fire a bunch of you so that they don\u2019t lose any money. But in any case, you, the little guy, are always gonna get the shaft. The little guy always gets the shaft when the Democrats raise taxes. <\/p>\n

Let me ask you this: We just heard that the top 1% now control half of the wealth in the world. I don\u2019t believe that, but that\u2019s the stat that\u2019s out there today, and everybody\u2019s acting like it\u2019s the gospel. So let\u2019s pretend. Let\u2019s engage in the hypothetical. Would somebody tell me what tax cuts have happened the last six years that allowed the rich to get even more money? ‘Cause that\u2019s what they tell us, that the rich got rich because of Reagan cutting taxes for the rich — and then Bush came along, and he cut taxes for the rich, and the rich got richer. You notice the rich never work. <\/line><\/p>\n

The rich never invest. The rich are a bunch of siphoning sponges. They\u2019re sitting around and they\u2019re stealing money from you. While you\u2019re out at McDonald\u2019s, they break into your house and steal whatever you got in your piggy bank, and they all do this and they end up getting rich. (This is how they want you to believe it happens.) The rich get rich with tax cuts for the rich. Would somebody tell me what tax cuts for the rich we\u2019ve had the last six years, that enabled the rich to get even richer?<\/p>\n

How did the 1% end up now controlling over half the world\u2019s wealth, when they haven\u2019t had their taxes cut? Obama hasn\u2019t cut any taxes for the rich. Obama didn\u2019t cut anybody\u2019s taxes. Everybody\u2019s taxes have gone up, including the rich. Somebody tell me how the rich keep getting richer. By the way, if the rich, the 1%, now control over half the wealth in the world — and they\u2019ve done it by stealing it from you — how the hell much money do you have, that they can keep stealing from you and keep stealing from you and keep stealing from you, to the point they have over half the world\u2019s money? <\/p>\n

Did you know you had that much money? Did you know how much has been stolen from you? That\u2019s what the Democrats want you to believe. But how often have you heard it? “Tax cuts for the rich! Tax cuts for the rich! The rich get richer! Reagan and Bush, tax cuts for the rich.” Well, the rich keep getting richer. Can somebody tell me what tax cuts there have been in the last six years. Can you name any? <\/line><\/p>\n

Income taxes haven\u2019t gone down for the rich. <\/p>\n

Medicare taxes haven\u2019t gone down for the rich. <\/p>\n

Obamacare taxes haven\u2019t gone down for the rich.<\/p>\n

Social Security taxes haven\u2019t gone down for the rich.<\/p>\n

Capital gains taxes haven\u2019t gone down. <\/p>\n

What the hell? Maybe the only thing you could say was that there was a year when there was no inheritance tax, but for that to happen the rich had to kick the bucket. The rich had to die for that one to matter to \u2019em, and it wouldn\u2019t matter to \u2019em \u2019cause they\u2019re dead. So their family benefits from it, but aside from that… Do you realize how obscenely absurd all of this is? The fact that they apparently keep getting away with it is stunning. It\u2019s a mystery. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Somebody sent me: “Hey, Rush, the government does give you money from rich people through programs, like free community college programs –” not yet but coming “– day care programs, free phone programs, food stamps, housing programs.” Yeah, okay, fine and dandy. I just want you to go to the rich part of town, drive through there, when you found a nice house, “Man, that\u2019d be cool to live in.” Stop and look at it and ask yourself if you think the person living in it has a day care program, is using a free phone program, is living off food stamps. <\/p>\n

Ask if the person living in that fine house has some kind of housing adjustment. Ask yourself if the person living in that house got that house because of day care programs, and the answer is gonna be, “No, no, no, no, no.” They don\u2019t give you any money. They buy your vote with a bunch of promises of prosperity that never happen to you, if all you do is sit around and wait for it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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