Hillary: Time to Raise Middle-Class Taxes!
Clinton loves government revenue and spending more than she cares about American families.
By Deroy Murdock — August 5, 2016
Standing before an adoring crowd in Omaha on Monday, Hillary Rodham Clinton read from her teleprompter and shouted: “I’m telling you right now, we’re going to write fairer rules for the middle class, and we are going to raise taxes on the middle class.”
The Democratic presidential nominee did not correct that statement, nor had her campaign done so, at this writing. Clinton’s official website claims that she wants to offer “tax relief to working families,” although it says nothing about tax cuts for Americans who are single, childless, or both.
So, as of now, Clinton is on record as advocating tax hikes on America’s middle class.
There is never a good time to raise taxes on the middle class, but now is especially bad. America’s economy is growing at just 1 percent for the first half of 2016. President Obama’s recovery is the worst since 1949, according to the Wall Street Journal. Today’s barely measurable expansion is the weakest in 67 years.
Real median household incomes have slipped under Obama, from $54,925 when he was inaugurated in January 2009 to $53,657 in 2014. The latest Census Bureau data confirm this 2.3 percent slide.
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