For Democrats, Taxes Aren’t about Revenue. By KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON

For Democrats, Taxes Aren’t about Revenue. By KEVIN D. WILLIAMSON

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/10/for-democrats-taxes-arent-about-revenue/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NR%20Daily%20Monday%20through%20Friday%202019-10-01&utm_term=NRDaily-Smart

Excerpt: Perhaps the strangest utterance of Barack Obama’s career in public office — a career that was full of utterly bizarre pronunciations of many kinds on many subjects — was his 2008 claim that raising taxes on the wealthy is a moral imperative, even if the tax increase in question ended up reducing overall federal revenue.