February 5, 2007
TAXING HOOVERVILLE:
Edwards: 'We'll have to raise taxes' (Eric Pfeiffer, February 5, 2007, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards promised to raise taxes and provide universal health care if elected to the White House, accusing his rivals of lacking the political "backbone" to voice their convictions.
"Yes, we'll have to raise taxes," the former one-term senator from North Carolina and 2004 vice-presidential candidate said during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" yesterday. "The only way you can pay for a health care plan that costs anywhere from $90 billion to $120 billion is there has to be a revenue source."
The Democrats are hoist on their own petard when it comes to tax hikes. On the one hand they rely on the absurd narrative that holds we live in particularly bad economic times -- rather than the reality that we are the most affluent people in history -- then, on the other, they want to take away what (supposedly) little money we do have. Posted by Orrin Judd at February 5, 2007 8:06 AM
The Breck Girl meets Walter Mondale.
It is amazing that Edwards has suddenly become so blindingly tone deaf. First, his mansion (including the $200,000 walkway between the house and the barn). Then, hiring a hate-filled shrieking nutroot as his blogger-to-the-world. And now staking out a position on higher taxes. Even Clinton knew better than to say that in 1992 (when raising taxes was more defensible than today).
No wonder he was a one-term Senator.
Posted by: jim hamlen at February 5, 2007 10:44 AMWell, that's two things we know Edwards stands for: raising taxes and homos in the military.
Posted by: Lou Gots at February 5, 2007 11:27 AMIt looks like a barn on the outside; inside it contains a squash court, a basketball court, a swimming pool, two theatrical stages, a kitchen, a lounge, and a bedroom.
Posted by: Gideon at February 5, 2007 1:39 PM