Sotomayor Hearings Serving as a Distraction for Tax Hikes?

Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
Wednesday, July 15, 2009

A lot of media attention has been focused on President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court Justice nominee Sonia Sotomayor, and rightfully so. But are congressional Democrats using this media fixation as an opportunity to sneak through a $540-billion tax hike to pay for health care?

Business & Media Institute adviser Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, thinks so. He told Fox News “Your World” fill-in host that on July 13.

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“I’m not suggesting it,” Mitchell said. “They would like that to happen. There’s no question the public opinion polls have turned against the administration in terms of broad economic policy and especially on the more specific issue of fiscal policy. This has been a profligate tax-and-spend administration in just the first six months and now they want the government to take over health care and make it like the postal service. They will not be able to put all this through without people watching.”

According to a July 13 Financial Times story by Sarah O’Connor, in an effort to fund health care, House Democrats are introducing a bill a proposing a 1 percent income tax on earners making more than $350,000 a year and as much as 3 percent on those earning in excess of $1 million. Soaking the rich might make for winning campaign rhetoric, but the rich don’t necessarily suffer, according to Mitchell.

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9 Responses to “Sotomayor Hearings Serving as a Distraction for Tax Hikes?”

1. hellferbreakfast Says:
   July 15th, 2009 at 8:16 am

   Congress if infamous for trying to slip bills through under the radar. There are things attached to bills that don’t have anything to do with the bill itself. TREASON!!!!!

   

   The real reconmarine Reply:
   July 16th, 2009 at 8:26 am

   Yeah, im sure the only reason they are tlevising the sotomayer case is to cover the michael jackson case up

2. Aunty Semite Says:
   July 15th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

   You should be supporting a better health care system – not opposing it. Dumbfucks.

   Tax the wealthy – make america healthy.

   

   Jim Lunsford Reply:
   July 16th, 2009 at 6:10 am

   Dumbfucks? That would be an accurate self-description for you. You are either one of the dumbest people here, or you just like attention. Maybe if you would bathe you could meet someone. As it is, so far all your thoughts have stunk to high heaven.

3. Cousin Id Says:
   July 15th, 2009 at 2:35 pm

   It’s hardly a distraction, this Sotomayor whatever. Congress and Our Esteemed Leader are trying to hide anything – they don’t have to. They have the country ass-up on the bed and they are about to have their way with us. They are rushing it through before the consequences of each monumentally bad decision can really begin to show; otherwise, the nation would not accept it. And Aunty Semite, why don’t you just define “better health care system” instead of quoting it with righteous indignation and pretending that you are more intelligent than a piece of shit. There is no “health care crisis” like the political class wishes us to believe – I know from personal experience. I was self-employed and very poor for over ten years but never failed to get the health care I needed from local hospitals and physicians. I, er, PAID for it over time. Oh wait …! You want it … FREE!? Work for it, asshole; don’t make someone else responsibile for YOUR personal shit.

4. Rolloffle Says:
   July 15th, 2009 at 10:20 pm

   Sotomayor is a stupid spic bitch.

5. JACKASS Says:
   July 16th, 2009 at 12:29 am

   SOTOMEYER LOOKS LIKE A UGLY BULLDOG,OBAMA SHOULD PUT A DOG COLLER ON HER AND TAKE HER TO A DOG SHOW FOR UGLY DOGS

   

   truth911 Reply:
   July 16th, 2009 at 9:05 am

   second that whats up with hiring all these useless ugly jewish bitches

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