Method behind the Madness

Consider that, in the teeth of a devastating recession, Obama has: • Raised taxes on small businesses, the engines of entrepreneurship and job growth • Raised the capital gains tax • Lied about "tax cuts for 95% of Americans", offering instead $13 a week, achieved not through tax cuts, but by changing the federal withholding tables • Destroyed charitable giving by axing the tax breaks for 26% of all giving or $81 billion in 2006 • Proposed a carbon cap-and-trading scheme designed to punish oil companies and further tax consumers Why would Obama inflict these destructive policies while the economy is collapsing? Simple. Each step strengthens the role of government in people's lives.