http://hotair.com/archives/2015/06/18/the-hillary-clinton-economic-plan-revenue-enhancements-and-massive-obamacare-spending-increases/The Hillary Clinton economic plan: “Revenue enhancements” and massive ObamaCare spending increases
posted at 5:21 pm on June 18, 2015 by Ed Morrissey
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While the media has rushed to pick apart policy proposals from Republican presidential candidates, not much attention has focused on Hillary Clinton’s positions — because she hasn’t staked out any. Even though she has campaigned for months, Hillary has avoided taking any positions at all until Saturday’s relaunch in Roosevelt Park. Even that speech was a laundry list of slogans rather than any serious commitments or policy proposals, more like a State of the Union speech and delivered with less aplomb and personality.
After some media criticism about the lack of substance, Team Hillary let the media know that her policies would roll out over the next few weeks. Spokesman Brian Fallon made it clear that we’d get buried in Clintonian euphemisms as a cover for a tax-hiking agenda, as the Washington Examiner’s Jason Russell reported:
Hillary Clinton’s press secretary promises tax hikes will be in her presidential campaign’s policy proposals, to be released this summer and fall. Rather than use the toxic phrase “tax hikes,” press secretary Brian Fallon disguised the coming proposals as “revenue enhancements.”
The promise came in a tweet Monday evening, reading “.@BuzzFeedAndrew We are rolling out major policy proposals over the summer/fall. Among those proposals will be revenue enhancements.”
Fallon was tweeting in response to criticism that Clinton’s proposal for universal preschool did not describe how the expensive program would be paid for, as pointed out the by the Washington Examiner‘s Philip Klein.
Of course, “revenue enhancements” is code for tax hikes. During the Bill Clinton administration, another code word for this was “broad-based contributions.”
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