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Are you feeling lucky, ducky?

Read the lips of an administration that promised to “take down the tollgate on the road to the middle class”:

Lindsey compared the Social Security tax to a deposit in a neighborhood bank’s Christmas Club. In such clubs, periodic deposits are returned in a lump sum during the holiday season, and Lindsey said no one would consider such deposits a tax.

Rush Limbaugh is after your paycheck. So is the Wall Street Journal. And now the Mayberry Machiavellis are “working up more sophisticated distribution tables that are expected to make the poor appear to be paying less in taxes and the rich to be paying more.” —What is it about the tenor of the times that makes naked class warfare seem a sane, sensible, politically driven approach?

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