Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Horrific Historical Analogies

An alert non-commentator alertly alerted me to this exchange between Obama and some random crooks and malefactors of great wealth.  In response to increase regulation and potential changes in tax rates
Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman had the nerve to say this:
"It's a war," Schwarzman said on the struggle with the administration over increasing taxes on private-equity firms. "It's like when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939."
When Hitler and his henchmen invaded Poland, they rounded up and began murdering Polish intellectuals, Jews, and others they deemed of being unworthy of life.  Obama proposes increasing tax rates by some small percentage or another. Clearly, the two situations are analogous, which is to say they aren't. 

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