{"id":7731,"date":"2012-05-10T11:48:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7731"},"modified":"2012-05-10T11:48:28","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:48:28","slug":"mourdock-says-tax-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/10\/mourdock-says-tax-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourdock Says Tax the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Mourdock, the Teabagger that unseated Lugar in Indiana, is turning out to be a real piece of work.  I\u2019ve mentioned that he defines \u201cbipartisanship\u201d as making Democrats accept Republican positions.  Now he is equating the current tax structure as slavery and invoking the name of Abraham Lincoln to raise taxes on America\u2019s poorest citizens.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"10Tax-the-Needy\"The Republican Party\u2019s nominee for Indiana\u2019s U.S. Senate seat recently compared the fight over tax rates and reform to former president Abraham Lincoln\u2019s concern over slavery, alluding to Lincoln\u2019s famous \u201cHouse Divided\u201d speech ahead of the Civil War.<\/p>\n

State treasurer Richard Mourdock (R) rehashed a favorite GOP talking point<\/a> \u2014 that 47 percent of Americans don\u2019t pay income taxes \u2014 at the town hall in Columbus City, Indiana, comparing those 47 percent to the Confederate states that seceded from the Union in an attempt to protect and expand slavery. Referencing Lincoln\u2019s speech, Mourdock said that as long as nearly half of Americans don\u2019t pay taxes, \u201cwe are a house divided<\/a>\u201d that is presumably on the point to another fight, this time between the rich and the poor…<\/p>\n

…Watch it:<\/p>\n