John Podhoretz | Obama’s pathetic ‘tax cut’

Posted on July 14 2012 – 8:30 PM – Posted by: Doug Brady

So we have come to this: President Obama is now treating not raising  taxes as though it were the same as providing a tax cut. Gene Sperling,  his top economic adviser, even dared to refer to Obama’s proposal yesterday of a  partial one-year extension of the Bush rates as a “tax break.”

Up is down. 2+2 = 5. Leave a tax rate intact and it’s the same as cutting  taxes. No wonder the White House believed not buying a health-care policy  should be considered an economic activity to be taxed and penalized.

Action, inaction; what’s the difference? In one case, you’re being a bad  citizen and deserve to get slammed. In the other, you’re being a wonderful  president and deserve to get re-elected.

But of course logic has nothing to do with it, and whatever Obama is, he  isn’t dumb. This is a piece of election-year gamesmanship — and as such, it’s a  decent gambit. The president can claim, as he did yesterday, to be a great  friend to the middle class that has taken such a beating during his  presidency.

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