White House using class warfare to sell health reform plan

In explaining why it was OK to sock a new 5.4% tax on the highest earners in this country — to pay for health care reform — President Obama’s press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said this:

“The president believes that the richest 1% of this country has had a pretty good run of it for many years.”

Ah. So that’s it. The old “You’ve had it good enough for long enough” policy...

[What has our country come to that a politician at any level can say such a thing and not be thrown out of office?]

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