Democrats: You’re Rich If You Make $75,000/Year but Poor If You Make $295,000/Year
Can anyone say “cognitive dissonance?”
On one hand, we have Barack Obama drawing the line between rich and middle class at families who make $75,000 or more — a surprise to those who find themselves above that line, most of whom consider themselves solidly middle class. At the same time, we have New Jersey’s Democrat-run state government setting the poverty line for children’s health-insurance subsidies at … $295,000.
Ponder that for a moment. When the liberals talk about taxation the line between “rich” and “not rich” is $75,000. By defining “rich” down they can then include larger swaths of the population when they talk about “tax cuts for the rich” or “tax hikes for the rich.”
When liberals talk about expanding entitlements the put the “poverty” line at $295,000. By defining the threshold for being poor up they can include larger swaths of the population when they talk about the poor, downtrodden masses who need to be cared for by massive new government spending programs.
See how that works? The goal isn’t to empower people so that they can lead free and independent lives. The goal is to tax as many people as much as possible while simultaneously making as many people as possible beholden to the government for certain basic, necessary things like health care.
