Posted on 01/10/2005 9:01:13 PM PST by srm913
Rich Man Talking VIEW FROM THE LEFT - Harley Sorensen, Special to SF Gate Monday, January 10, 2005
Those of you who follow politics will remember a two-time Republican presidential hopeful by the name of Steve Forbes, a man with a syrupy half-smile rarely found outside a lunatic asylum.
To avoid confusion here, let it be known that I refer to the man known at birth as Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr., not his profligate late father, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Sr., publisher of a magazine bearing the family name. Forbes the Younger tightened up his moniker to just plain Steve Forbes in 1996, apparently to distance himself from his famously extravagant father while simultaneously gaining more of the "regular guy" persona favored by aspiring politicians.
Forbes was and is a true Republican, unlike his more famous cousin, John Forbes Kerry, who is believed by many to be a liberal Democrat. When Forbes sought his party's nomination in 1996 and again in 2000, his campaign mantra was "flat tax." His flat tax proposal amounted to a kind of Robin Hood in reverse concept: Lower the taxes for the rich and increase them for the poor. To their everlasting credit, America's Republicans sent Forbes back to playing editor at the family magazine empire.
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Believed by many? ...lol.
His [Steve Forbes'] flat tax proposal amounted to a kind of Robin Hood in reverse concept: Lower the taxes for the rich and increase them for the poor.
Everyone would pay the same "flat" rate -- the only fair system.
Bingo!
"a kind of Robin Hood in reverse"
What tools like this never get is that if you "Robin Hood" on a large scale, what you're doing is eating the seed corn.
Robin Hood stole the taxes from the government that the government (the parasites) forced the people (the producers) to pay, and gave them back to the people. NOW which party looks more like Robin Hood?
Who says?!
Cool, Way to go Steve Forbes!
Oh, God, please pass the barf bucket -- spare us please!
Good point.
""Liberal" and "open-minded" are synonymous."
ha!
Oh the writer made a funny! .....I wonder how that happened? Must have been a mistake. Lefties have no sense of humor....LOL
Yes, of course, but for morons like sorenson, RH "stole from the rich and gave to the poor." His idea of "Robin Hood" is anything that takes money away from people who have it and gives it to people that didn't earn it.
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