Excerpt from Dick Morris.
President George H.W. Bush lost the presidency because he broke his 1988 campaign pledge: "read my lips: no new taxes." Now President Obama is as blatantly poised to disregard his most fundamental campaign promise: "if you make less than $250,000 your taxes will not go up. Not one dime."
In our new book Catastrophe, we write about the breadth of Obama's planned tax hikes and the heights to which he will drive taxes. To pay for his health care catastrophe, Obama will likely make all health insurance premiums, paid by employers, taxable to the employees.
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Obama promises everything is "for free," but when push comes to shove there is no source for the promised free lunch. When folks can vote themselves what they think will be benefits, money transfers effected by government edict, then we are on the road to destruction.
Let's start out with a dual response, "No votes for indigent folks," and "A literacy test at the polls."
As a condition precedent to voting, you should not have received any form of government assistance for one year as an eligibility criterion, and there should also be a literacy and civic knowledge test subject to audit and with a mechanism for strict enforcement.
What was intended as a democracy has transformed itself into a situation which involves skillful manipulation of indigent people who are promised transfers of goods of the provident. Manipulation of voters through exercise of guile and misrepresentation is the order of the day. And any relationship between the public image of the candidate and the candidate is purely coincidental.
Come to think of it, candidates should be required to pass a minimum intelligence test, and some psychological tests of fitness, sort of like the astronauts.
