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Charlie Rangel Advocates Raising Taxes And The Debt Ceiling On… FBN’s Freedom Watch?

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Freedom Watch, Judge Andrew Napolitano‘s libertarian haven over on Fox Business, usually entertains guests of the small government persuasion on anything from bringing the troops home to eliminating the income tax. So when notoriously liberal Rep. Charlie Rangel stepped up to propose an end to the Bush Tax Cuts and raising the debt ceiling, he came into it a fish out of water, to put it mildly.

Judge Napolitano and Rep. Rangel (who projected an air of chumminess only old friends could muster) had at it from the get-go, with Rep. Rangel teasing that Judge Napolitano’s beliefs were a part of his newfound success as a TV host– “when you were on a judge’s salary you weren’t talking this way!” But Rep. Rangel lasted a short time without going into the details of the Bush tax cuts, which he argued repealing would not raise taxes but, rather return them to their normal state. “We are not talking about a new tax hike,” Rep. Rangel noted, “We had an extension that dramatically lowered taxes… and the only thing the President is talking about is returning to the old tax rates.” He also made the claim that taxes are currently at their lowest rates “since the beginning of the Republic,” which was probably not intended to be a factual statement (Judge Napolitano pounced on that immediately, noting that “for the first hundred years there was no income tax”).

Judge Napolitano then shifted to the more practical issues facing Congress, asking whether “any tax raise is dead on arrival in this House of Representatives, right?” Rep. Rangel responded arguing that many conservatives were more interested in helping the needy, “with all the spiritual leaders and the rabbis and the ministers, they will not be nearly concerned with the rich protecting their money in havens overseas as they will be concerned about our poor and our sick and our vulnerable.” Um, okay.

Rep. Rangel’s obstacle course concluded with having to defend raising the debt ceiling, to which the best he could retort was that the money was necessary to “pay the interest on money that has already been borrowed,” and that not paying that money was detrimental not only to American economies but all foreign economies that depend on it. Not exactly the most persuasive argument to the average Freedom Watch viewer, one can expect, but certainly a noble effort on contentious ground.

The segment via Fox Business below:

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  • notsofast

    Charlie Rangel Advocates Raising Taxes”

    Of course he does- when you don’t pay your taxes like Charlie, increasing the tax rates has no affect on you.

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Do you have NO INTEGRITY, NO ETHICS, NO CONSCIENCE and NO BRAINS?
    If you answered YES then you get to save THOUSANDS on your tax bill with “innocent mistakes”. Here’s how:

    Just take THE TIMMY TAX lunatic-left LOOPHOLE. Like TAX CHEAT Treasury Secretary and Head of IRS tiny tim geithner, don’t pay $34,000 in owed taxes until your tax cheating is exposed by the media. And don’t forget to claim the non-existent Geithner Camp Deduction for sending your kids to summer camp. (NB: all lunatic-left socialist d-crats can just make-up any deductions they want; these phony deductions are now called “geithners”.)

    Want an even smaller tax bill?

    Then invoke THE REPROBATE RANGEL RULE. Like TAX CHEAT charlie rangel, who has been protected for years by “culture of corruption” leader pelosi, “forget” about paying taxes on foreign rental income of $10,000 AND receive special, sweetheart IRS treatment that includes NO PENALTY for failing to pay taxes!

    D-crats love to tax you to death, then tax your death, all while wasting your tax dollars on crony capitalist bonuses, bailouts, abortions, pork, socialist welfare and THEMSELVES. But, like lunatic-left liberal d-crat TAX CHEATS geithner, rangel, olbermann, mccaskill, daschle, killifer, solis, kirk, sebelius and millions more, they hate to pay taxes, and they’ll cheat the government out of every penny they can.

    That’s “change you can deceive in.”

  • Barack Must Go

    Rangel is a common criminal who has been swindling the ” real ” American people and getting away with it for decades. He really belongs in prison, but instead returned to Congress to swindle some more. What the hell else would one expect him to say? This is a story because…..?????

  • Probably NOT wrong

    I would be happy if he just cleared his damn
    throat.

  • Davo

    When anti-Americans say “give,” they always mean with OTHER people’s money. When those anti-Americans advocate raising taxes, they always mean OTHER people’s taxes. The anti-American ruling elite are above such mundane things as “putting in some skin.”

  • MrTPar_taY

    Word to the DemoKKKrupts-get your f@#KKKing hands out of my wallet!

  • Cancon2

    Probably NOT wrong said:
    I would be happy if he just cleared his damnthroat.

    Now that is funny.

  • X-3

    I saw the complete segment. Edited out was the parts where Rangel looked most stupid…if you can imagine that!

  • X-3

    What does Rangel’s numerous reelections tell you about his constituents?

  • WHarropson

    Of course he does. (should I watch it or not)

  • Davo

    Interesting. So far, not a single anti-American Liberal has dared to tread this “real estate.” Guess ol’ “In-your-face-corruption” Charlie is too hot a potato.

  • Barack Must Go

    Rep. Charlie Rangel CONartist extraordinaire.

  • RichS

    notsofast said:
    Charlie Rangel Advocates Raising Taxes” Of course he does- when you don’t pay your taxes like Charlie, increasing the tax rates has no affect on you.

    To Charlie Rangel the budget is just a guideline that may or may not be followed, and he views the tax laws the same way.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Tucker-Peterson/721293033 Tucker Peterson

    LOL , anything is just so funny . I wonder does the Judge have an air stem in his back ? And someone hits him with a shot of air every sentence .
    The Judge , Beck , Rush And even those on the left like them . Got the message down to a science . But they do it for all the wrong reason’s . Entertainment .

  • Spike1

    Lazy democrats live on republicans hard earned money.

  • http://Mediaite.com uggugg

    I think everyone should have heard what I heard on the TV last week. Some well known Wall Street investors said to some Republicans. Be sure to agree to raising the Debt Ceiling, if you don’t Wall Street will crash. What? We just destroyed half of the American Voters just to lower the Dept. Wall Street should be an entity unto it’s self like the Las Vegas Casinos and when they gamble and loose they should be left to crash and go bankrupt. Wall Street manufactures inflation and they keep the profits of inflation. When they lose we bail them out. They are like a bunch of leaches, a blood sucker that should be stripped of the inflation they create by taxing them in dollars what they cause in inflation. Regardless of how much money you make today, next year you will need twice that much to buy half as much as you have been buying. Look at gas. Before Dick Cheney hugged the King of Saudi Arabia we paid $1.50 per gal. for gas. After Dick Cheney hugged the King of Saudi Arabia we are now paying $4.35 for a gal. of gas. Until the Democrats build a giant wall between our economy and Wall Street, their profits will be their profits and their losses will be our losses. If this don’t make sense to you, you have you head in the clouds and I mean those very dark clouds. If you voted for the Republicans and you are enjoying Democratic programs, you deserve to lose them. You sold yourself down the river with your vote. You are to blame. If you are a millionaire and your living high on the hog, Vote Republican, if you’re working for a living and you don’t have a million in the Stock Market you may want to change your luck an vote Democratic. If your preacher is living very well from a Republican Congregation maybe that is why he is a Republican.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    X-3 said:
    What does Rangel’s numerous reelections tell you about his constituents?

    That they aren’t angry Teaparty clowns like Marliyn Davenport and a bunch of right winged ingrates here.

    Spike1 said:
    Lazy democrats live on republicans hard earned money.

    America has an ecomony based upon CONSUMPTION, not manufacturing. If the 98% of wage earners you DESPISE don’t go out and CONSUME, the 2% at the top you worship don’t get paid.

    –Cobra

  • X-3

    Cobra said:
    That they aren’t angry Teaparty clowns like Marliyn Davenport and a bunch of right winged ingrates here.

    No, like you, they do not have enough perspicacity to understand what the Tea Party is all about, and they–unlike the Tea Party members–are comprised mostly of welfare parasites, drug dealers, pimps, and Jew hating miscreants who don’t have the guts to get off their asses and make an honest living.

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