{"id":183971,"date":"2012-09-20T20:55:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/20\/unhelpful-stupid-self-hating-democrats\/"},"modified":"2012-09-20T20:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T01:55:00","slug":"unhelpful-stupid-self-hating-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/09\/20\/unhelpful-stupid-self-hating-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Unhelpful Stupid Self-Hating Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2012.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2012\/09\/tim-kaine-tax-the-47-percent.php\">Tim Kaine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Virginia Senate nominee Tim Kaine (D) unexpectedly suggested in a debate with George Allen on Thursday that he\u2019d be open to requiring everyone to pay a minimum amount \u2014 including the 47 percent of American taxpayers who do not currently pay any income tax.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Kaine was responding to a question from moderator David Gregory about whether \u201ceveryone in Virginia should pay something in federal income tax\u201d in light of Mitt Romney\u2019s leaked complaints about the 47 percent who he considered \u201cdependent\u201d on government.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI would be open to a proposal that would have some minimum tax level for everyone,\u201d Kaine said. \u201cBut I do insist, many of the 47 percent that Gov. Romney was going after pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes than he does.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Republicans quickly pounced. The Kaine campaign said the Democrat was simply discussing his openness to discuss anything as part of his plan to overhaul the tax code. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, raising taxes on poor people is <b>such<\/b> good policy.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the fetish that the political class of the Democratic Party has for candidates who are willing to sell core party values down the road is bad because it gets you lame wankers like this on the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Harry S Truman, &#8220;Given a choice between a fake Republican and a real one, the public will choose the real Republican every time,&#8221; and Tim Kaine is doing his level best to be a fake Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Kaine: Virginia Senate nominee Tim Kaine (D) unexpectedly suggested in a debate with George Allen on Thursday that he\u2019d be open to requiring everyone to pay a minimum amount \u2014 including the 47 percent of American taxpayers who do not currently pay any income tax.Kaine was responding to a question from moderator David Gregory &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,1000,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-elections","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183971"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}