In praise of Tucker Carlson?
From an op-ed by Peggy Noonan:
I close with Tucker Carlsons Wednesday night Fox News interview with Mr. Ryan. It cut to the political heart of the matter.
Mr. Carlson questioned the new bills elimination of a tax on wealthy investors. Looking at the last election, was the message of that election really, We need to help investors? I mean, the Dow is over 20,000. Are they really the group that needs the help?
Mr. Ryan answered that the tax had been imposed by ObamaCare. The trillion-dollar tax cut that this bill representsthat is part of the trillion-dollar tax increase that was in ObamaCare to finance ObamaCare. It deserves repeal: Its bad for economic growth.
Mr. Carlson: But the overview here is that all the wealth, basically, in the last 10 years, has stuck to the top end. Thats one of the reasons weve had all the political turmoil, as you know. And so, kind of a hard sell to say Yeah, were gonna repeal ObamaCare, but were gonna send more money to the people whove already gotten the richest over the last 10 years. I mean, thats what this does, no? Im not a leftist, its justthats true.
Im not that concerned about it, Mr. Ryan replied. Republicans promised to repeal ObamaCare, and they are.
Maybe he should be concerned.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/house-republicans-repeat-an-obama-error-1489100502
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,834 posts)SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)is accurate twice a day.
Have no use for Tucker, but a nod of approval on this - I am sure brief- epiphany.
Paladin
(28,254 posts)As St. Thomas Aquinas said: "Fuck that shit."