Hillary's Gifts:This truth should set you free
By Michael Graham. bostonherald.com
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Have a kid, and Hillary Clinton will give you $5,000.
Open a savings account, and she’ll give you another $1,000.
Go to the doctor, and she’ll start a $110 billion program to pick up your tab.
Promise to vote for her in the New Hampshire primary and who knows? Red Sox tickets?
With Hillary Clinton, the sky’s the limit!
Shameless vote buying, particularly by Democrats, is nothing new. During the 2000 presidential election, Al Gore’s campaign workers were caught on videotape handing out packs of free smokes to lure “voters” from homeless shelters in Milwaukee.
In South Carolina, the State Election Commission uncovered a blatant case in which votes were swapped for $5 in cash and a bottle of whiskey. The case was broken by disgruntled (and slightly inebriated) vote-sellers complaining to state officials that the scheme was an outrage to the democratic process.
After all, they used to get $10.
I prefer the “liquor and a pack of Lucky’s” brand of bribery to the Clinton kind. It’s honest graft that involves the voter’s willing participation and the candidate’s own money.
Unfortunately, that’s not what Hillary has in mind. She gets the votes. We give the money. And when I say “we,” I mean the 53 percent of working Americans who pay 97 percent of all federal income taxes.
The other 47 percent pay a pathetic 3 percent of the tax bill, according to the National Taxpayers Union. But they get the vast majority of the benefits. And lots of attention from the Democratic Party’s presidential candidates.
Take the new Clinton Cash proposal for taxpayer-funded 401k accounts. Let’s state for the record that encouraging increased savings is a laudable goal that I wholeheartedly support. Indeed, I’d like to take this opportunity to encourage you, dear reader, to sock away some cash for a rainy day, if you haven’t already done so. A penny saved is a penny earned, etc., etc.
Feel encouraged? Good.
Alas, when Hillary says “encourage savings,” what she really means is “giving away other people’s money.”
Her plan is to send a $1,000 check to everyone who’ll put the same amount in her 401Clinton plan.
Oops. Did I say “everyone”?
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