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Obama’s Tax Plan Based on ‘Neighborliness’

(CNSNews.com) - We can afford to pay higher taxes. They can’t. That’s the gist of Sen. Barack Obama’s tax plan, which he discussed with Fox New Channel’s Bill O’Reilly in an interview that aired Monday night.
 
Obama has campaigned on a promise to reverse the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, while protecting tax cuts for poor and middle class families. He favors a return to the 39 percent income tax bracket for the highest earners -- including himself and O’Reilly, he said.

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“If I am sitting pretty, and you’ve got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can’t -- what’s the big deal for me to say, ‘I’m going to pay a little bit more.’ That is neighborliness,” Obama said.

“You’re a big ‘tax the rich’ guy,” O’Reilly told the Democratic presidential candidate.
 
O’Reilly called the senator “Robin Hood Obama,” and reminded him that taking money away from high-earners and giving it to low earners is income redistribution. “It’s a socialist tenet,” O’Reilly said.

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