Ministry of Plenty ( Obama / Mondale to raise taxes )

wsj ^ | APRIL 18, 2011 | JAMES TARANTO

[george76]

Obama wants to raise taxes. So does Mondale. Obama won't tell you. Mondale just did.

Remember Walter Mondale? Oddly enough, we do, mostly for this fun fact: He's the only major-party American politician to have lost elections in all 50 states.

In 1984, he told Americans to take a hike, and they told him the same thing. In a Washington Post op-ed piece over the weekend, Mondale quotes his own speech to that year's Democratic National Convention in San Francisco: "Taxes will go up. . . . It must be done. Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."

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Obama embraced these ideas in his speech last week. But unlike Mondale, he didn't have the honesty to say he wanted to raise taxes, so that he ended up advocating a "$2 trillion stealth tax hike," as Reuters' James Pethokoukis points out.

He described the increase in rates as forgoing a tax "cut" and the curtailment of tax deductions and exemptions--which his deficit commission proposed, but offset by lower rates--as "spending reductions in the tax code."

[WOBBLY BOB]

Old Wilted Mundane was on local TV here this weekend talking about how horrific it would be if the Stillwater bridge were replaced.

Silly old fool.

[mountn man]

if the Stillwater bridge were replaced

Montana???

[Colonel_Flagg]

Remember Walter Mondale? Oddly enough, we do, mostly for this fun fact: He's the only major-party American politician to have lost elections in all 50 states.

That is a delicious trivia question. His op-ed in the RedStar today shows he's still cut from the same cloth.

[WOBBLY BOB]

nope- a lift bridge on the St.Croix river in MN.

[fightinJAG]

Obama wants to raise taxes. So does Mondale.

First line said it all.

[JPG]

49 state electoral loser in '84 and the MN senate candidate who couldn't 'Win it for Paul' after Wellstone's plane landed early.

TOTAL LOSER.

[SkyPilot]

If Obama eliminates the deduction for mortgages and children, it not only will further destroy the economy, it will have negative social implications.

Homes (those who actually pay them off) and families are bedrock to thriving cultures. Too bad Moochelle and Obama hate that.

[lentulusgracchus]

(Art.)He described the increase in rates as forgoing a tax "cut" and the curtailment of tax deductions and exemptions--which his deficit commission proposed, but offset by lower rates--as "spending reductions in the tax code."

Ted Kennedy was always describing tax credits and tax deductions as "tax expenditures" -- Orwellian doubletalk that served him when he called for reductions in "expenditures" i.e. tax increases and deduction elimination.

His Orwellian speech habit dovetailed nicely with his off-the-record meetings with people like Armand Hammer and Anatoliy Dobrynin and Yuri Andropov, Mr. KGB Himself, to discuss American politics.