And so why did he make that promise (to raise taxes for the rich in order to create a more equitable society) in the first place?
Do you have to ask?
Do I have to answer?
To get elected, in short. People who run for public office are often driven more by personal ambition, i.e. vanity than by their insatiable desire to do public good. Or should I perhaps put it the other way? People who run for public office are often driven more by their insatiable personal ambition, i.e. vanity than by their desire to do public good. At any rate, seasoned politicians know how difficult it is to get things done politically. After all, only a few people bother to enter the race for the highest public office nowadays – presumably all others know better. And after all, if it were easy for any newly elected president to carry out his campaign promise to, say, raise taxes for the rich, then, for starters, there would be no “Occupy Wall Street” movement today.
Anyways, all of this is easier said than done, isn’t it?
So therefore, let’s all shut up and resort to examining more examples of people whose hands are tied.
OK?
All right. Here they are:
1. “The price of cable TV has risen to the point where it’s simply not affordable to lots of lower-income homes. And right now there are an awful lot of lower-income homes,” Moffett said. “The evidence suggests that what we’re seeing is a poverty problem rather than a technology phenomenon.”
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