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Jan. 29, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 29, 2015, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
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Well, my friends, it's amazing what happens one day of uh of absence, and it's amazing the things that happen.
I mean, they always happen when I'm here too, don't misunderstand.
For example, Obama drops plan to raise taxes on 529 college savings accounts.
The Obama administration said that it's going to drop a plan to tax so-called 529 college savings accounts after the proposal sparked wide spread criticism over its potential impact on the middle class.
The move followed a public call by John Boehner on Tuesday for the White House to withdraw its plan.
I didn't hear Obama do that.
You know, why do I always when I want to say Boehner, I always say Obama.
I've got some faux pas fixated in my head.
I always do it.
I meant Boehner there.
Boehner called on Tuesday for Obama to withdraw the plan, but I don't I don't remember Baehner.
Well, he might- I'm not saying he didn't do it.
All I know is I didn't hear about this plan in any detail anywhere but here.
On this program.
We spent two days on this program detailing this.
Because it was flat out outrageous what they were going to do.
And I'm frankly surprised they withdrew this so soon, folks.
I mean, this is not this is not modus operandi for the regime.
Now the refresher memory, because I there may have been other people talk about it, don't misunderstand.
I just know that here we made a big deal out of this, because it is a big deal because it came on the heels of Obama claiming that he was going to raise taxes on the rich in order to do something about income inequality.
And in the process of making the point that raising taxes on the rich does not elevate anybody else.
Raising taxes on the rich does not really change whatever gap there is between rich and poor.
And it really doesn't, and it never has.
The uh all it does it it convinces people in the middle class that the rich are being punished.
Uh it convinces people in the middle class that the rich are going to have it socked to them and they're gonna pay more taxes.
And they're they've been conditioned to feel good about that, which is another thing I really resent about this government and the left, and that is the conditioning of people to feel successful and triumphant when other Americans are theoretically harmed by government policy.
I mean, that really stinks.
So here came the regime announcing, oh, we got this gap between rich and poor, this income gap uh the wealthy and the middle class is just too big.
This is unseemly, they said.
This is unfair, they said.
This is outrageous.
And so their proposal was to raise taxes on the rich.
As though that was gonna do anything for anybody.
All it and it's not even really gonna harm the rich.
I mean, capital gains rate here and there.
The rich find their ways around these things all they always.
They are going to pay more taxes, there's no question about it, because the rich are the ones paying a lion's share of taxes, top 1% paying 40% of all government revenue now as it is.
And they're going to pay a couple of percentage points more, but it ain't going to elevate anybody else, but the everybody else is going to go, yeah, yeah, man, yeah, man, you suck it to him.
And the government has, over the many years that I've been paying attention, pitted citizen against citizen in this country and created all this class envy, and it's just it's unseemly.
And so that's what the regime did.
But after doing that, they piled on and then said that they were going to eliminate the tax advantages for people who had invested in 529 accounts.
Now to briefly review, a 529 account is like a 401k or like a medical savings account.
Here's the deal the government made with you.
If you take money from your salary off the top before your salary has been taxed every pay period, and there was a maximum you could take, and you put it in this 529 is an education savings account, and you that money is supposedly theoretically being stashed away for you to pay college, junior college, whatever, education expenses for your children.
And like any of these plans, if you leave the money alone, it grows theoretically.
And if you leave the money alone, you pay no penalty on it.
And if you use the money when your child needs the money for education purposes, if you withdraw from the 529 account for that, then there's no tax penalty.
However, if you withdraw the money prematurely before your kid gets to college age, or if you withdraw the money for any other purpose, then you would pay tax on it.
That was part of the original deal.
The regime's announcement was that they were going to eliminate, they were going to change the rules in the middle of the game.
They were going to eliminate the tax exempt status of these accounts, and people were going to have to start paying income tax on the money that they had put away in these 529 accounts.
These are middle class people who had done this.
It was a tax increase on the middle class, a rules change in the middle of the game.
And it totally destroyed the purpose of the program.
It was not a tax on the rich.
It was a tax on the middle class.
After the middle class had been promised they'd get this broke gram benefit, whatever, tax-free.
I mean, it was outrageous what it was.
And look, folks, I don't remember anybody else calling them out on this.
I mean, I I can't, I can't listen to everybody else.
I don't listen to everybody else.
I don't watch everything else.
So I don't know who all made a big deal about this, but I did get a bunch of emails saying, hey, Rush, did you see what you caused me?
Because the people's perception was that we'd made a big deal of it here on the EIB networks.
Anyway, in one or two days, they pull this back.
Now that doesn't happen that fast.
The regime here, let's go audio sum by number 11.
This is Eric Schultz.
There are more kids in that press office at the White House that in about their speaking on the microphone.
You got Josh Ernest, you had Jay Carney, you got Bill Burton.
I never heard of this guy, Eric Schultz, but they found him from somewhere.
He's probably the guy that cleans up the Skittles wrappers after NFL games.
He walks out there, and he's talking about why Obama dropped the idea to tax money in these 529 plans from his budget proposal.
We wanted to make sure that this didn't become a distraction to help jeopardize the rest of the plan.
It was a distraction.
We decided to move forward with the rest of our plan, and we hope Congress moves on it shortly.
We didn't want this to become a distraction.
The distraction that this was becoming.
This particular piece was becoming a distraction.
We didn't want that to jeopardize the broader plan, so that's why we announced what we did.
Oh, so that's uh so it's becoming a distraction, eh?
What does that mean?
It means that people found out about it.
That means that people found it was it was a distraction because Obama wasn't gonna be able to get away with it.
Obama had promised the middle class he was gonna only raise taxes on the rich.
And to whatever extent that works, the middle class out there applauding it.
Yeah, you stick it to them, babe, you sick it to them.
We hate the rich.
We think they should really be you go to it.
And then they found out from this program that a, you know, that 529 plan you put in my guess what?
The tax exempt stat gets gone.
You're gonna pay income tax on that starting this year.
When you file your return in April, you're gonna have to pay tax on all that money you've put in.
Well, yeah, I imagine it was a distraction with all the feedback the White House was getting on this.
Anyway, the program's been canceled.
And because it became such a distraction, uh, they are not going to ask Congress to pass the 529 provision.
Uh the move that I'm reading here from the Wall Street Journal, the moves a setback uh for Obama.
He sought in the run-up to last week's State of the Union show to reframe a long-running debate over the tax system by issuing a set of proposals to address middle class anxiety over wage and income stagnation, which of course does nothing about it.
I don't uh raising taxes on other people doesn't help people that don't get their taxes raised.
It just doesn't work that way.
Other than to fuel this idiotic class envy.
Now, to pay for his ideas, he proposed several changes to restrict the use of tax advantage savings accounts.
The uh the regime argued that the accounts disproportionately benefit higher income families.
They don't.
Higher income families write the check for tuition.
This was a direct assault on the middle class.
You know what the Washington Post is doing today, Snertley?
Well, I don't know if it's today.
It might have, it might have, uh it might have happened yesterday or the day before when I was gone.
There the Washington Post has a piece on Mitt Romney's house in La Jolla, California.
Uh well, I don't know if it's his house in La Jolla.
They got a piece on one of Romney's houses and how big it is.
And there it's on the website, and you can plug in the square footage of your domicile, your condo, your apartment, and that will be superimposed over the floor plan of Romney's house, which is about 23,000 square feet.
Oh, my house is bigger.
I I plugged my house in just to see.
And my house, my house is bigger than Romney's.
Now that's not the point here.
Well, you shouldn't ask me that.
Look what you tricked me into saying.
That was not the point.
But I did play the game.
But the point is, how about the Clinton's mansions?
How about the Kennedy compound?
How about all the places Obama rents and stays and where he lives?
How about the square footage of the White House for crying out loud, which he doesn't pay for?
Why Romney?
I mean, it's a classic.
I know I've got no brief for Romney here, folks, but I mean, this is just, it's just this is how this class envy stuff works.
You know, and this is the house with the elevator in it in the garage that uh the cars get moved up because Mrs. Romney has MS and finds it difficult to get to the rolls uh without this is what the post wants you to do.
Really if you've got the floor plan, all three floor three floors.
And you plug in your square footage of where you live, and it supposedly shows you how much bigger Romney's place is than yours.
That's class envy type stuff.
It's just ridiculous.
But this 529, I can't tell outrageous.
I mean it flat out slapped in the face at the middle class, and they have withdrawn it.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, and that's just one of two, just one of two illustrations of the reach and the power of the EIB network.
There's another one coming that I didn't know happened until I saw the audio soundbite roster moments ago.
And happened on Old Baxter show.
Happened on the O'Reilly factor.
Get that just a second.
You gotta hear this.
You gotta hear this.
Carol Costello on CNN's newsroom today at a trial of Aaron Hernandez, uh former tight end for the New England Patriots.
He played alongside Gronkowski.
I mean, they were unstoppable, these two guys.
I mean, Hernandez and Gronkowski, but they're both 6'6, 6'5, 265, run a 4.240, that's just unstoppable.
And now Gronkowski's it, but they used to have this guy Hernandez till he's accused of murder.
Well, the trial, the first of a bunch of trials started today.
And Carol Costello, you got to listen to this.
Carol Costello, who used to be CNN's designated stalker of this program.
She's now an infobay bankerette.
And this was how she discussed the Aaron Hernandez trial today.
There has been much made of the makeup of the jury.
Lots and lots of women on the jury, and some say that'll help Aaron Hernandez because he's a handsome guy.
There's no clear motive for why he would murder Odin Lloyd, and maybe they'll take into account there's a handsome guy with a fiance and a kid and a 40 million dollar contract.
Not possible.
This is this is a CNN info, maybe speculating that the jury, is this not sexist?
The jury may not find Aaron Hernandez guilty because he's such a good-looking guy.
And he's got a wife or a fiance and a kid and a 40 million dollar contract.
Such a handsome guy.
And he might not be found guilty because of all the women on the jury.
And this is a this is a resident feminist in good standing, essentially insulting the women on the jury's.
I wouldn't dare find him guilty.
He's too cute.
I mean, if you're gonna look at it that way, that's not why they would find him innocent or not guilty.
It's because he's Hispanic.
Illegal immigration and so forth.
Amnesty.
We're giving amnesty for everything.
Why we convict this guy?
He's Hispanic.
There's no way that'd be the better argument to make.
Greetings, my friends, welcome back, Rushland Ball.
Cutting edge of societal evolution.
Now, as you know, uh ladies and gentlemen, Scott Walker has been championed on this program for well, years, actually, but in terms of his success, the things that he has encountered,
the adversity that he's overcome in being elected governor of Wisconsin, and then having to win three more times, a couple of recall elections, which were nothing more than disguised efforts by the Democrat Party and their allies to destroy him, and then another standard re-election effort.
The guy has overcome every effort the Democrat Party knows to destroy him.
His family has stood tall.
Scott Walker and his family have withstood everything the Democrat Party has.
And not only has he withstood it, he has triumphed over it.
And he's done so as a conservative, as a flat-out, no excuses made, conservative.
Scott Walker has not attempted to co-opt liberal language and use a little bit of that in the way he speaks to try to calm them down and keep them at bay.
He has been fearless.
He has not withdrawn, he has not shrunken, he has not exhibited any fear whatsoever.
And his family stood with him too.
As such, as you've heard countless times on this program, Scott Walker has the blueprint on how to restore this country.
He has restored Wisconsin, which started out a blue state.
He tackled the entrenched leftist bureaucratic interests in that state that were bankrupting it, that were destroying the schools, and that's primarily the the unions, public employee and otherwise, just stood up to them, took every mean spirited attack that they had to offer and beat them back with the people of Wisconsin.
He didn't win the media in any of this.
And the media was part of the cabal that was doing their best to destroy him.
He withstood it all.
And I've thought for the longest time, through all of these three elections.
I've thought that Scott Walker's telling everybody how to do it here.
We've interviewed him.
I've not endorsed him, and I'm not doing so now.
That's not the point.
I don't do that, particularly this early in any campaign or any race.
But we've interviewed him for the Limbaugh Letter.
We've had him on the program here to discuss his book.
Audio sound bites of him from last Saturday in uh in Iowa at this conservative gathering.
And the the the the important thing about Scott Walker, I mean, all of a sudden people say, who is this guy?
Where'd this guy go to get a charisma transplant?
He's always been who he is.
It's just that he's never been touted.
When you hear about Republicans and the governors they talk about, you hear about who?
Well, you hear about Governor Christie.
You hear Rick Perry now and then deservedly so.
But you never heard Scott Walker.
And all he was doing was showing everybody how to beat back the left.
Which I thought is what we're all doing here.
I thought that was the purpose here.
To save and restore America to its founding principles and ideals.
Here's a guy doing it.
Here's the guy who did it.
Here's a guy who did it against a juggernaut that was designed not just to beat him, but to destroy him and eliminate him as a political force for the rest of his life, not just his career.
There's the blueprint.
There's how to do it.
Never heard his name mentioned in any official Republican Party communiques.
Anyway, there's more on this.
Sit tight.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's coming up.
Just sit in there, hanging there be tough.
All this uh stuff at the regime and all the analogy zero where we're not going to call him.
Uh it just it it's it, I don't know, folks.
It's it's it's explainable, it's understandable.
You know, it's amazing.
1938's being repeated right before our very eyes.
And what we're missing right now is a Churchill.
Instead of the Nazis, we have the militant extremists, the militant Islamists can't talk, call them that.
You can't refer to them in any way that would be offensive or whatever, just like back in 1938.
Nobody wanted to hear how bad the Nazis were.
And in the 1939 and 1940, there was one guy.
There was one man trying to warn everybody in Great Britain what they faced, what was dead ahead, it was Winston Churchill, and they mocked him and they made fun of him and they laughed at him, and they thought Neville Chamberlain had the answers, and they invested in Chamberlain.
Chamberlain goes, you know, the story comes back meeting with Hitler and a promise that Hitler's got no grand designs on Europe.
He waves that piece of paper from Hitler promising not to do it next day, invades Poland, and it's all over.
Churchill been vindicated, but because there'd been a Churchill, and because he'd been on record explaining who these people, even though people discounted him, it's still the record was there.
And there are people, I mean, it when I say there's no Churchill, I mean there's no nobody in elected government now who's willing to go out on a limb.
There's all kinds of people in the conservative media, Andrew McCarthy, I think probably leading the way on trying to get everybody to understand what militant Islam is and who they are and what we're up against.
People don't want to face it.
They just don't want to admit it.
It's just like in 1938, head in the sand kind of stuff.
To pretend it's not there, it'll go away.
You might have some people here sympathetic to them, but Al Jazeera has just come out now and said, no, we're not going to call them militant Islamists, uh, we're not going to call them extremists, we can't call them terrorists, we can't call them any of the we can't call them what they are.
We're not going to call them what they are.
And the regime is saying we're not going to call them what they are, and we can't call them what they are.
Now your guess is as good as mine as to why.
And there are numerous theories that uh that abound, but still scary as it can be.
Because the truth right in front of our eyes, these guys tell us who they are every day.
These militant terrorists not just tell us who they are, but they show us.
They do what they say they're going to do.
They're going to behead somebody, they do it.
They say they're going to take a town and destroy all the women and children.
They do it.
And we're running around, oh no, no, we must respond with diplomacy and smart power and caution and all this happy horse monarchy.
It's right in front of everybody what it is.
Well, Russia's never going to come to America.
I mean, 9-11 was a one-off.
They got away, but it's never going to happen.
We can't be policemen of the world and blah, blah.
It's exactly, it's amazing how history repeats itself.
It's just a it's stunning.
And 1938, 1930, 1940 is not so far away, not so far gone, that there aren't people alive today who can recall it who were there.
There are plenty of people who can recall it who were there.
Anyway, we'll get to that and break it all down and get some people on the phones who want to talk about it.
But Here's the second illustration of the, well, I don't know what to call it.
The uh the program.
Most talked about radio talk show in America.
This was, and I didn't know this had happened.
Until long after the fact, Ted uh uh Bill O'Reilly had his guest Charles Krauthammer, Dr. Krauthammer.
What was this?
Tuesday night on the O'Reilly factor.
And you know, after Monday was a really hard day here.
The days are still hard, folks, with the with the death of our chief of staff here, Kit Carson.
Um, but in an effort to branch out and then still do the show on Monday, where there was a lot of attention paid to Scott Walker and his performance in Iowa on Saturday.
And made the point that to me, I'll say it again, and I've been folks of this has been a point of mine for two years.
That Scott Walker is showing everybody how this is done.
You may not like it, you may not want him to be the guy, but he's got the blueprint.
This is a guy that's done it.
We don't have to, we don't have to involve consultants and have meetings on strategy and theory and philosophy.
Here's a guy that's done it.
Here is a guy who has beat back the absolute best the left has to offer.
By that I mean the absolute most horrible, the most mean spirited personally destructive politics that you can imagine in this country.
They threw everything of him and his family, and how did he beat them?
With conservatism.
He beat them by drawing a sharp contrast between them and himself.
He didn't blur the lines.
He didn't fall into the trap of thinking like the Republicans told, well, you know, the electorate's pretty moderate out there, and the electorate they don't like it when Democrats are criticized.
They want us to all get along.
They want Republicans to work with the Democrats and to get things done.
They want a spirit of co-op.
Walker said that he went out, and he told everybody who they are.
The first thing he did was define his opponents, and he explained why Wisconsin was in such bad shape, budget-wise, education-wise, you name it, and he laid it right at their feet.
And then he told them how he was going to fix it.
He told them how he was going to restore it.
And when he did that, he articulated undiluted conservatism.
In a blue state, this is where Madison, Wisconsin, this is where Milwaukee was kind of, this is his Democrat estate as San Francisco is a city.
And he won three elections in four or five years.
It was unreal what he had to do.
And he triumphed every time.
Well, anyway, made been making this point for two years, and be and I've I've I've gotten blue in the face telling everybody how mysterious I think it is that the Republican Party doesn't tout the guy.
The Republican governors is, I understand jealousy and understand envy, but aren't these people about winning?
Well, here's a winner.
Here's Scott Walker who's shown how it happened.
Anyway, they heard Monday's program over at the Fox News Channel, did a segment on it on the O'Reilly factor on Tuesday night.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recently caught a break.
Scott Walker has the blueprint for winning and winning consistently and winning big in a blue state with conservative principles that are offered with absolutely no excuses.
Rush Limbaugh's positive words give Governor Walker some momentum.
He is a proponent of smaller government, has restricted the power of labor unions in Wisconsin, generally defeated the far left at every turn.
Right.
But the only thing I would disagree with there, I don't think Walker caught a break.
What that means, uh Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker recently caught a break.
The break is being mentioned by name.
That's not recent.
We've been touting Scott Walker and the way he's been winning and the fact that he's been winning, as you know, for two years here.
And he didn't catch a break because he didn't need one.
He's he's just being who he is.
Scott Walker has Been himself.
He has been a cheerful, unembarrassed conservative.
Conservatism draws people, not praise.
Conservatism is why Scott Walker won, not because he got mentioned on this program.
Scott Walker didn't catch a break here.
He made his break.
And you realize everything he did in those campaigns was unsanctioned from the Republican Party RNC.
I mean, they gave money.
They contributed money to his campaigns.
They wanted him to win, don't misunderstand.
But they didn't incorporate anything Walker was doing in any of their other races.
They were worried.
They were worried.
You know, Walker's getting beat up by the media and folks, this is still sadly too true.
We have people in the so-called conservative movement, we got Republicans who are still influenced by what the mainstream media says about us and our candidates.
There were people.
Ah, Walker's damaged goods rush.
You've got to give it up.
The media's destroyed it.
So what do you mean he keeps winning elections?
It doesn't matter.
Rush, the media's destroyed him.
He's a kook, he's an extremist, these uh social issues, guys.
He's not none of that.
Scott Walker has won on fiscal issues.
He's won on education, he's won on everything you claim as a conservative to be for and interested in.
They thought Scott Walker was X, Y, Z because the media says so.
And I said, Well, what do you guys?
And this is actually all too common to be common to me.
When are you people?
I'm talking to conservative that I know and and other Republicans.
When are you going to give up this idea that our candidates have to be palatable to the drive-by media?
It's never going to be the case.
You're just letting the media choose our candidates.
If you're gonna approve of or reject the candidate based on what the media says, because the media is never gonna like any of our people can actually win.
The media is going to tout people on our side they think can be beat.
So Scott Walker withstood all of this, and he had the media out ripping him to shreds along with the Democrats, and the Republican National Committee, they held their breath.
They wanted him to win, don't misunderstand.
But the things that he was doing to win, and even now the things that he has done to win, you don't see the RNC incorporating him.
And that's been my point all along.
He's got the blueprint.
Well, anyway, after O'Reilly announced that Scott Walker caught a break by being touted on this program, he turned to Dr. Krauthammer, the analyst of the night, and uh uh O'Reilly said, Scott, uh Rush Limbaugh complimented him.
Uh Dr. Crauthammer, does uh Walker, it's a big boost there.
Does that change things for Walker?
It does, but it was the speech itself that changed things.
The speech he made in Iowa this weekend.
Look, you know, there are those who are sort of running for the presidency, and there are those, and this is a very big field, who are running for either number two or for a Fox show.
Of course, if you run on the Democratic side, you're running for an MSNBC show like Al Sharpton.
That's the consolation prize.
But the ones who are serious are the ones who impress audiences, and I think Rush is a very good reflection of the Republican constituency.
He's perceptive guy.
And I think Scott Walker is getting up there to the top tier.
Exactly.
And and Dr. Crauthammer here is exactly right.
It was the speech that Walker gave on Saturday in Iowa that caused everybody to go, whoa ho-ho, who is this guy?
And I'm glad it happened, but my point has been people should have known who this guy is for the past two years because of what he's done in Wisconsin.
While we've all been wringing our hands and talking about the Tea Party and hoping that the Republicans in Washington will finally take up the clarion call and govern the way they campaign.
Scott Walker's been doing it.
He's been showing how to do it.
That's what I mean by blueprint.
He's been winning, role model, all this stuff.
I haven't seen anybody try to incorporate what he's done.
That's the speech that he gave Saturday.
Don't care.
It's finally happened.
People are now saying, whoa, who is this?
Now they're looking into what he's done.
You know, it's it's tough to permeate that shell that encompasses the inside the beltway uh establishment.
But that speech that Walker gave last Saturday apparently did it.
We'll be back.
And Braback, Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge.
Societal evolution as usual, half my brain tied behind my back, just to make it fair.
Now hearing from um elected officials, who I happen to love and adore and respect.
Hey, hey, there are some of us in elective office who've called out the mild and Islam.
And that's that that's true.
There, I I didn't mean to say that nobody in elective office is calling them out.
There are plenty of people who are in the House of Representatives.
They're members of Congress who were doing so.
Man, I tell you, people are out there listening with eagle ears, if that's the way to put it.
Let me grab a um call uh Brian and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Yeah.
Oh, okay, we're gonna go with you first.
That's good.
Brian, thanks for the call.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Hi, great to be here.
I have a point on the 529 thing.
What you said is is right on, but there's a whole nother level to get to.
The reason the White House announced it is because it scored positively.
It looked like revenue.
Because of the static scoring of the CBO.
In reality, in real life, no one would ever invest in a 529 if there were no tax savings.
Why would you do it?
You wouldn't.
So this is a great example of why the CBO should use dynamic scoring.
And the Republicans should hammer that.
And because dynamic scoring will lead to smaller government.
Static scoring leads to the government.
Right.
So let me ask you.
Who do you know in Washington's interested in that?
Nobody.
Well, that's why you're not going to get your dynamic scoring.
I mean, you just you just you didn't even need to call me.
You just answered your own question.
You make me look brilliant in the process, which is fine and dandy, but you didn't need to call.
I wish Washington would do dynamic scoring because that would show how all this stuff could make government smaller.
Why don't they do dynamic scoring?
Because they don't believe in government getting smaller.
They also dynamic scoring, what is it?
What is it after all?
You got you okay, you come up with it, you propose a tax increase, all right, and you claim you're gonna raise taxes on everybody five dollars.
Let's just use an easily understood example.
You're gonna raise taxes on everybody five dollars.
And you then factor, okay, what is five dollars from every American working, and then you add that up, and look how much our budget's gonna grow.
That's the static way of analyzing a tax increase.
But if you don't factor dynamics, okay, you're gonna you're gonna ask everybody to pay five bucks additional.
Some people are going to find a way to only pay one or two or three or none at all using legal and available means in the tax code.
That's the dynamic.
What is dynamic?
That is people exercising what?
You can call human nature, it is human nature to avoid paying what you don't have to pay.
It's freedom.
It's freedom and liberty.
Dynamic scoring attempts to understand how a free people engaging in liberty will seek to behave in ways most advantageous to them.
Washington is not interested in that.
They don't certainly don't want to teach it.
They don't want to counsel it.
So they do the dynamics.
If if they would have dynamically scored Obamacare, it would have never gotten past the first vote.
A static analysis of Obamacare would show the way you it's because it's garbage and garbage out how you can keep the cost magically under a trillion dollars for the first rated period by the CBO.
And the and the trillion dollar cost was was crucial because that's what they claim the Iraq war cost.
So we're gonna get out of Iraq and they're gonna do Obamacare, and there's a net wash, and then it cost us any more money.
We're gonna insure the 30 million uninsured, it's utopia.
Well, it was not utopia, it was BStopia.
And that's why.
But the the 529, clearly, I mean, nobody would have done it had there not been a tax exempt provision to it.
And everybody designed the program understood that as well.
What amazes me about this is the regime Caved on this within a day or two of uh the outrage occurring, and they don't usually back off that fast, things like this.
Uh man, they're savaging Mitt Romney again.
The left is out there, uh, the the forehead on CNN.
You know, anytime you gotta rebrand yourself uh as authentic, you have a problem.
That's the forehead talking about Romney.
Excuse me, what the hell's going on with Hillary?
They've got her sequestered, and they're coming up with policy positions and policy papers, and who knows else what kind of work's going on.
Here's a woman been around politics for a thousand years, and they still can't put her out there on her own and be confident she's gonna get it right.
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