Speaking in front of a crowd that included billionaire Warren Buffett, former Secretary of State and 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton revealed that she plans to raise taxes on the middle class if she wins the election. And, much to the surprise of observers, the audience cheered.
Here is what she said:
“Because while Warren is standing up for a fairer tax code, Trump wants to cut taxes for the super-rich. Well we’re not going there my friends. I’m telling you right now we are going to write fairer rules for the middle class. And we are going to raise taxes on the middle class!”
First off, this isn’t a case of misspeaking. It’s just a case of Hillary Clinton fibbing. That’s what she does. She may have said she’ll cut taxes for the middle class last week, but this week she’ll confirm that she’ll raise them. We all know how much Clinton lies (her name, her coming under fire as First Lady, her stance on same-sex marriage, etc.).
Second, it became rather apparent that the crowd wasn’t really paying attention to what Clinton was saying. When she said she’s going to raise their taxes, the crowd, made up of middle-class folk, cheered.
Third, if Warren Buffett wants his taxes raised so badly then why can’t he just write Washington a check? He can simply take out his checkbook, write down $1 billion and hand it off to the Treasury. Done! But he won’t do that. This is the same man that said he tries his hardest to pay as little tax as possible (SEE: Warren Buffett won’t pay more in taxes than what he’s required to).
“Actually, [Berkshire’s] tax rate is pretty high if you look at it. But if it could be lower, I would have it lower. I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire’s tax rate,” said Buffett. “For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.”
Fourth, Wall Street knows Clinton won’t raise their taxes. This is why the next president of the United States has received a lot more money from hedge funds than Donald Trump (SEE: Wall Street hedge funds love Hillary Clinton much more than Donald Trump).
Fifth, Clinton has to really stop yelling at us!
You do realize that the tape has been analyzed by experts and she says “aren’t”…as in ARE NOT….but maybe contractions are too difficult for Trump and his supporters to understand.
Alan Yu, a linguistics professor at the University of Chicago who specializes in phonology, ran the audio through a computer program called Praat, which analyzes phonetics.
By analyzing the sound waves, we can see that Clinton was saying “aren’t,” because she definitely pronounced the “n,” though she didn’t really hit the “t.”