# Hillary Clinton promises to raise taxes. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 30, 2004, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-promises-to-raise-taxes/252894 "2004-06-30T15:14:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-promises-to-raise-taxes/252894/101 "2004-07-01T21:18:58Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > Did you have a point with your schoolboy snicker, RT? Or was your sole purpose in this thread to exhonorate Ronald Reagan’s economic policies? Lessee: hysterical language, followed by a request that another poster put down a ‘hysteria novel’…should I not have been amused? My apologies. BTW, what does ‘exhonorate’ mean? It’s not in my dictionary. (If you meant ‘exonerate’, that word doesn’t mean what you evidently think it means.) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-promises-to-raise-taxes/252894/102 "2004-07-02T05:40:56Z")
> [@Liberal](#): > > NDP > > Good Lord. The blind faith you put into bureaucrats in lab coats hired by career politicians with a vested interest in seizing your liquid assets, and whose studies are funded chiefly by the industries who lobby their bosses is frankly inspirational for people everywhere who might sometimes have lapses of faith. The false dichotomy that you draw, suggesting that either government must regulate the life out of industry or else that industry must be given free reign by government to defraud the public is ridiculous. Why don’t you put down your hundred-year-old hysteria novel and read some modern academic articles. Here are some Cato Institute Regulatory Studies. > > [http://www.cato.org/research/reglt-st.html](http://www.cato.org/research/reglt-st.html) > Munch > > Bravo! 🙂 Please tell me that was a joke. "Stop reading that biased book and read this completely unbiased research published by the Cato Institute. Forget that they are a fiscally conservative group, and that their conclusions can be summed up as, “Lowering spending is Good!”, they’re _way_ more objective than anything you’ll cite. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-promises-to-raise-taxes/252894/103 "2004-07-02T10:58:47Z")
The joke is in how you sum up their positions. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-promises-to-raise-taxes/252894/104 "2004-07-02T13:57:40Z")
I realize I’m jumping on this late, and I may well have missed someone’s addressing my points already. If so, I apologise. But what really cheeses me off, far more than Hillary’s blanket assumption of first right to everyone’s paycheck, is that Senator Clinton choose to make this statement of intent in California. And she’s a Senator from New York. None of the NY papers have mentioned word one of this - and considering how much attention she received during her run for Senate and the aid she was given… I find it unlikely that this wasn’t noticed by them. Just not mentioned to her constiuency at large. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-promises-to-raise-taxes/252894/105 "2004-07-02T14:00:35Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > I realize I’m jumping on this late, and I may well have missed someone’s addressing my points already. If so, I apologise. But what really cheeses me off, far more than Hillary’s blanket assumption of first right to everyone’s paycheck, is that Senator Clinton choose to make this statement of intent in California. And she’s a Senator from New York. None of the NY papers have mentioned word one of this - and considering how much attention she received during her run for Senate and the aid she was given… I find it unlikely that this wasn’t noticed by them. Just not mentioned to her constiuency at large. Reason #4935 to actually read the thread before making a comment almost surely to have been covered by post #5. :wally ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2004, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-promises-to-raise-taxes/252894/106 "2004-07-02T14:12:35Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Reason #4935 to actually read the thread before making a comment almost surely to have been covered by post #5. :wally I’d take the hit if I hadn’t read to post #50 already, and it seemed to be devolving into a debate about what was and wasn’t allowed in the Constitution. I’m not trying to say that is an unimportant issue, but as of that post, my point still hadn’t been addressed. :wally 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hillary-clinton-promises-to-raise-taxes/252894.md?page=5)