Voters Not Buying Obama’s Bogus Inequality Talk: Ramesh Ponnuru
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Dec. 13 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama wants tospend the next year talking about economic inequality.Republicans shouldn’t take the bait.
In a speech last week in Kansas, the president presentedrising economic inequality as the defining issue of our time. Asis often true of political speeches, Obama didn’t make anythingresembling a tight logical case. Instead he relied heavily oncaricature (Republicans allegedly want everyone “to fend forthemselves and play by their own rules”) and dubious assertion(supposedly there are billionaires who pay only 1 percent oftheir income in taxes).