| The Colbert Report | Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c | |||
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I really sympathize with the wealthy, don't you? I mean, in the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression, the poor dears face "ridicule" and "anxiety."
It really must be tough, don't you think? Aren't you glad you're not rich? I'm surprised they're not jumping out of windows right and left. (Oh, yeah. They'd only jump to the right, huh?)
And higher taxes kill incentive. If we return tax rates to where they were during the 1990s, the wealthy will only work as hard as they did back then. This means that a lot of the work the wealthy are doing now will have to be done by someone else. And that's bad, because... well, apparently there's some reason why that's bad...
Stephen Colbert's interview with Austan Goolsbee, in the following clip, is pretty good, too. (I can't embed two clips in the same post, for some reason - not without causing problems here.)
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