{"id":1097,"date":"2004-06-29T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2018-08-13T14:17:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T19:17:25","slug":"1097","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/29\/1097\/","title":{"rendered":"Honesty is the Best [Withdrawal] Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hillary Clinton says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you,” Sen. Clinton said. “We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I immediately thought to compare it to the campaign worker who visited James Lileks’ house<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Then came the Parable of the Stairs, of course. My tiresome, shopworn, oft-told tale, a piece of unsupportable meaningless anecdotal drivel about how I turned my tax cut into a nice staircase that replaced a crumbling eyesore, hired a few people and injected money far and wide – from the guys who demolished the old stairs, the guys who built the new one, the family firm that sold the stone, the other firm that rented the Bobcats, the entrepreneur who fabricated the railings in his garage, and the guy who did the landscaping. Also the company that sold him the plants. And the light fixtures. It\u2019s called economic activity. What\u2019s more, home improvements added to the value of this pile, which mean that my assessment would increase, bumping up my property taxes. To say nothing of the general beautification of the neighborhood. Next year, if my taxes didn\u2019t shoot up, I had another project planned. Raise my taxes, and it won\u2019t happen \u2013 I won\u2019t hire anyone, and they won\u2019t hire anyone, rent anything, buy anything. You see?<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it\u2019s a philosophical difference,\u201d she sniffed. She had pegged me as a form of life last seen clilcking the leash off a dog at Abu Ghraib. \u201cI think the money should have gone straight to those people instead of trickling down.\u201d Those last two words were said with an edge.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then I wouldn\u2019t have hired them,\u201d I said. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t have new steps. And they wouldn\u2019t have done anything to get the money.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, what did you do?\u201d she snapped.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy should the government have given you the money in the first place?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t give it to me. They just took less of my money.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was the last straw. Now she was angry. And the truth came out:<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, why is it your money? I think it should be their money.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, I saw the story on Drudge and made the connection independently, but before I could post it here, the all-knowing Instapundit<\/a> commented on it, too.<\/p>\n

Upon hearing the quote, my beautiful wife<\/a> said, “Geez, Hillary, why don’t you just move to China?”<\/p>\n

And my response: “Because, honey, she wouldn’t rule China.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hillary Clinton says: “Many of you are well enough off that … the tax cuts may have helped you,” Sen. Clinton said. “We’re saying that for America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We’re going to take things away from you on behalf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23139,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/23139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}