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Looks like it's time for the Democrat Party to dance with who brung them to so many parties in the past. Midterm elections are on the horizon and the Dems are looking at possibly (I've been watching American voters too long to use the word "probably") losing the House. Obama and his troupe tried the "Summer of Recovery" tour but that went over about as well as a pregnant Nun. It's hard to convince people we're in the middle of an economic recovery when businesses keep shutting their doors and unemployment remains high. Something else that didn't work was Pelosi's little "we have to pass health care reform so that we can see what's in it" ploy. Well they passed it ... and it seems that every single week we learn something new and wonderful about what an absolutely hideous piece of legislation ObamaCare is. Remember, if you will, the information we gave you last week on the hundreds of 1099s virtually small businesses will have to file starting in 2012.

Well ... if you're a mindless Democrat (a little redundancy there from the Department of Redundancy Department) .. or, to make it simpler ... if you're an uneducated idiot, there's always one last ploy you can use when election day draws near. You can demonize the rich. The wealth envy has always been there, it's there now, and it will always be there ... so take advantage of it!

So we're getting some really interesting arguments out of Washington right now. All of them are in efforts to explain why the middle class is worthy of tax cuts and the evil rich people are not. Now our tax cheat Treasury Secretary says that increasing taxes on the rich is "the responsible thing to do." He says, "It's responsible to let the tax cuts expire that just go to 2 percent to 3 percent of Americans, the highest earning Americans." Doing so would show the world that the U.S. is "willing as a country now to start to make some progress" reducing long-term budget deficits. Can you believe this line of BS? Now we have a responsibility to increase taxes on the filthy rich. To whom to we have this responsibility and why? We have to look out for the general welfare of the American public because everyone is concerned about our deficit. So by increases taxes on the rich, that will help alleviate our deficit woes, right? Wrong. This is categorically untrue, as I have already pointed out numerous times. The fact is that the more and more Democrats feed this line about the taxes for the wealthy being linked to the deficit, the more the American public will start to believe them. This is a classic case of using wealth envy to get policy passed ... even if you know it is untrue, the American people are too stupid to know otherwise.

What you're seeing here is the how critically important government schools are to Democrats. I doubt that one out of a thousand parents in this country have ever seen fit to study the origins of government-controlled education in this county. If they had they would have run across some of the writings of the people directly involved with the creation of today's system of government schools. Reading some of those letters, articles and studies would have revealed that it was never the intention of these people, or of the schools that they created, to fully educate America's children.

Why am I suddenly ranting about government schools? Simple --- because with any education at all the people of this country would understand, or would have the means to discover some basic truths about taxing the snot out of the filthy, disgusting, insipid filthy rich.

You always get more of the behavior you reward and less of the behavior you punish. Taxes are punishment. When you punish those who work harder with higher taxes you dampen their desire to put in the extra effort. The higher taxes get less willing productive people will be to go the extra mile, make that risky investment in a new business or otherwise work to increase their earnings. Conversely .. the lower taxes are the more willing you will find productive high-achievers to be to take those extra steps that lead to more income. These basic human traits - to work harder when rewarded and to work less when punished - have proven themselves time and time again as taxes rise and fall.

Now here's the part that the Democrats really don't want the American dumb masses to understand: When you increase taxes on the high-achievers they slow down their economic activity resulting in lower tax revenues. When you decrease taxes on high-achievers they work even harder because the reward is greater, resulting in higher tax revenues. There is no arguing this point. The historical record proves the point. Democrats would lose a powerful weapon ... their "tax the rich" pandering to wealth envy ... if the American people understood this. Hence our government schools.

The very people Obama and his anti-capitalist cadre are targeting with their higher taxes are the people our economy depends on to create new jobs. Between 70 and 80% of all existing jobs and all new jobs being created are jobs created and provided by America's small businesses ... and the owners of these small businesses are the VERY ONES Obama and the Democrats are targeting with tax increases. Thanks to our woefully inadequate government schools most Americans have no understanding of this fact. Ask them and they'll tell you that most Americans work for major corporations and financial institutions. If Americans really DID understand that the very people Obama and the Democrats want to bring down to size with more taxes are the people we're depending on for new jobs ... Democrats would be hiding under their beds.