Friday, July 13, 2012
Anyone
who wants to study the tricks of propaganda rhetoric has a rich source
of examples in the statements of President Barack Obama. On Monday,July
9th,for example,he said that Republicans “believe that prosperity comes
from the top down,so that if we spend trillions more on tax cuts for the
wealthiest Americans,that that will somehow unleash jobs and economic
growth.”
Let us begin with the word
“spend.”Is the government “spending”money on people whenever it does not
tax them as much as it can? Such convoluted reasoning would never pass
muster if the mainstream media were not so determined to see no
evil,hear no evil and speak no evil when it comes to Barack Obama.
Ironically,actual
spending by the Obama administration for the benefit of its political
allies,such as the teachers’unions,is not called spending but
“investment.”You can say anything if you have your own private language.
But
let’s go back to the notion of “spending”money on “the wealthiest
Americans.”The people he is talking about are not the wealthiest
Americans. Income is not wealth — and the whole tax controversy is about
income taxes. Wealth is what you have accumulated,and wealth is not
taxed,except when you die and the government collects an inheritance tax
from your heirs.
People over 65 years of
age have far more wealth than people in their thirties and forties —
but lower incomes. If Obama wants to talk about raising income taxes,let
him talk about it,but claiming that he wants to tax “the wealthiest
Americans”is a lie and an emotional distraction for propaganda purposes.
Read More at the New American. By ThomasSowell.
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