Remember, this is what the NRA proposed following the Sandy Hook massacre. If only they could be embedded even more firmly within policymaking in the United States.
You go, Stephen. Head over to The Washington Post to read (and most likely grimace at) the full extent of this so-called “academic’s” Harvard dissertation.
The Article: Gates Says Wealthy Should Pay More to Help Reduce Deficit by Heidi Przybyla in Bloomberg Online.
The Text: Microsoft Corp (MSFT). co-founder Bill Gates said the wealthy should pay more as the U.S. continues to grapple with how to rein in its budget deficit.
“There’s no doubt that as you look at balancing budgets to the degree you need more revenue” that lawmakers will need to look to the wealthy “to get a little bit more from them proportionately than you get from people as a whole,” Gates said in an interview with Bloomberg Television before speaking at the Peterson Foundation fiscal summit in Washington today. “I think that’s pretty likely.”
Later, Gates, the world’s second richest man and co-chairman of The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said the U.S. is compromising its “values” in its approach to reducing federal spending.
Surprise, it’s a Bush appointee.
On September 14, Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes sent an e-mail to President Obama that has recently caused the hackles of the GOP spin machine to rise substantially. In it, Rhodes said that “there is a ton of wrong information getting out into the public domain from Congress and people who are not particularly informed” and that “we need to have the ability to correct the record, as there are significant…ramifications that would flow from a hardened mis-impression.”
While Rhodes most likely intended to limit his words to the importance of politely presenting the facts (and no, not their carefully re-sculpted, ass-saving impostors) amid congressional investigations into that week’s tragedy at Benghazi, the same could be said about a handful of GOP-driven “issues” making national headlines day after day after day.
It should therefore come as no surprise that it wasn’t Rhodes‘ dogged pursuit of promoting accuracy that inspired the ire of pitchfork-and-torch wielding Benghazi “truthers”; rather, it was the fact that this e-mail struck a fatal blow to yet another factually flimsy theory to which Republicans have held tightly and perpetuated on the Hill and in high definition broadcasts.
