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发帖数: 24733 | 1 Nancy Pelosi's elitist Democrats -- America, this is the party of the rich,
sneering at the poor
There was a time when the Democrats were the party of working Americans.
They seemed to understand and fight for the interests of the working class
and people living in poverty. Republicans, by contrast, struggled for
decades with the perception that they were “for the rich.”
Well, how things have turned around. Just look at the latest economic
pronouncements of leading establishment Democrats.
Here in my home state of California, in response to President Trump signing
the GOP tax reform bill into law, state Senate Democratic leader Kevin de
Leon has taken up a new cause: fighting for the right of the richest
Californians to evade their taxes.
It’s almost unbelievable – but true. De Leon (who is also the leading
challenger to Sen. Dianne Feinstein in her primary battle as she seeks re-
election this year) has proposed setting up a new so-called charity that
would enable the Silicon Valley and Hollywood elite to claw back their
losses from the Trump administration’s new tax reform law.
That tax reform law, let’s remind ourselves, actually means that some of
the richest people in the richest parts of America will pay more in taxes,
thanks to drastic cuts in deductions for state and local taxes they pay.
To fight off President Trump’s vicious attack on their rich friends (read:
donors), California Democrats want to set up a “California Excellence Fund.
” Donations to the fund would be matched dollar-for-dollar by tax credits,
which can then be subtracted from tax bills as “charity.” It’s a classic
liberal version of charity, mind you: all the money would go straight into
the coffers of the state government’s general fund.
Who would benefit from this bit of creative accounting? Californians earning
over $1 million a year, mainly.
“‘Kevin de Leon: the last best hope for California millionaires.” Not
sure he wants that as the bumper sticker for his campaign against Feinstein,
but as they say: when someone tells you who they are, believe them.
Another prominent California Democrat also revealed her true colors this
past week over taxes: our old friend, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
She dismissed $1,000 worker bonuses given in response to the GOP tax cuts as
“crumbs.”
Well yes, that’s what $1,000 may mean to you if you’re married to a
wealthy real estate tycoon and live in splendor in San Francisco. But if you
’re a member of a working family struggling to make ends meet (as pretty
much half of American families are after the economic disaster of the Bush
and Obama years), then $1,000 makes a real difference.
You can see the new left elitism in their attitude to immigration too. Their
total rejection of any effort to clamp down on the out-of-control low-wage
immigration that harms American workers shows that establishment Democrats’
sympathies now lie with big business, not working people.
That’s not true of the Democrats’ populist wing, of course. Sen. Bernie
Sanders of Vermont quite rightly points out that it’s corporate America
that wants mass immigration.
In a 2105 interview Sanders said: “Bring in all kinds of people, work for $
2 or $3 an hour, that would be great for them. I don't believe in that. I
think we have to raise wages in this country, I think we have to do
everything we can to create millions of jobs. You know what youth
unemployment is in the United States of America today? If you're a white
high school graduate, it's 33 percent, Hispanic 36 percent, African American
51 percent. You think we should open the borders and bring in a lot of low-
wage workers, or do you think maybe we should try to get jobs for those kids
?”
That’s Donald Trump’s position too: and rightly so. But establishment
Democrats like Nancy Pelosi and Kevin de Leon and all the rest who are busy
attacking the president’s pro-worker economic agenda have totally lost
touch with the needs and aspirations of working Americans. They demean and
dismiss them, preferring the company – and the interests – of their
wealthy friends and donors.
That’s today’s elitist Democrats: they’ve become the party of the rich,
sneering at the poor.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/01/13/nancy-pelosis-elitist-democrats-america-this-is-party-rich-sneering-at-poor.html |
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