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But not the real rich, like George Soros:

…Panels led by his Democratic Party have stepped up activity on legislation that would meet Obama’s goal of guaranteeing all Americans health care coverage, but they remain far from resolving the thorniest issue — how to come up with about $1 trillion over 10 years in new taxes or savings to pay for it…

…Senators were cool to one of the most controversial parts of the House Democrats’ bill, the so-called millionaires’ tax on the wealthiest Americans to pay for the expanded coverage. The tax starts at 1 percent on income of $350,000 a year and hits 5.4 percent for millionaires.

Once again – they are not taxing “the rich” they are taxing “high income earners”. The rich, when we think of “the rich” are people like the aforementioned Soros…or Buffet, or Gates, or Rockefeller…people who are fabulously wealthy and who don’t have to work for a living. “Tax the rich” schemes do not effect these very wealthy people for the simple reason that they have little or no taxable income – its not like Soros pays himself a million dollars a year so that Pelosi can take 5.4% of it to pay for health care. No, nothing like that at all – Soros has various tax dodges (all agreed to by the very same liberal Democrats who say they want to “tax the rich”) which allow him to spend whatever he wants on whatever he likes, but pay only minimal amounts of income tax, if any at all.

So, why do it? Because the rubes who make up the base of the Democrat party simply don’t think things through and thus don’t understand they are being conned. Additionally, it allows the Democrats to act like they are paying for this trillion dollar health care boondoggle when they know very well they’re not…but that isn’t the point. The point, boys and girls, is simply to get it enacted in to law, allow vast numbers of Americans to become dependent on it, and then sock the middle class with the taxes which will actually be necessary to pay for it.

Cruel. Cynical. Stupid. Ie, liberal.