Obama is telling us that sending checks to the 40% of tax filers who pay no taxes is a cut. In reality it's impossible to cut a bill below zero without calling it a gift of other's money. Obama knows this and it's part of a long Democrat tradition of buying votes through the Treasury.
Michael Medved explains in this column:
"...As Amity Shlaes shows in her necessary new book “The Forgotten Man,” FDR failed miserably at turning around the US economy (the Depression lingered until the beginning of World War II) but succeeded brilliantly in achieving long-term power for the Democratic Party. The innumerable government programs launched by the New Deal may have done nothing to advance the overall interests of the nation of the economic system, but they performed magnificently at creating dependent interest groups who voted reliably Democratic for decades. If the government hands out goodies to various constituencies, those segments of the population will continue to support the idea of enriching themselves with other people’s money..."
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