There’s debt denial and debt denial denial, but there is one wave of liberal truth-telling sweeping the land. We are increasingly hearing admissions that paying for the promises the federal government has made will require higher taxes on everyone, not just the rich.
Exactly a month after President Barack Obama was re-elected by promising that only the super-wealthy would have to pay more, Howard Dean let the cat out of the bag. The former Vermont governor, presidential candidate, and Democratic National Committee chairman confessed he had “mixed feelings about striking a deal where the rich folks pay more taxes.”
“This is, initially, gonna seem like heresy from a progressive,” Dean said in an interview with MSNBC. “The truth is, everybody needs to pay more taxes, not just the rich. That’s a good start, but we’re not gonna get out of this deficit problem unless we raise taxes across the board.”
The old screamer repeated this “heresy” in an interview with the pollster Scott Ramussen over the weekend. “This is the fundamental problem in American politics and it’s the fundamental problem with democracy in general,” Dean said. “Somebody has to tell the Middle Class that either your taxes are going to go up or your programs are going to get cut or else we’re going to go into financial oblivion, and nobody really wants to tell them that.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/19/the-tax-man-is-coming-for-the-middle-class/#ixzz2LZ3krrbl
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