Obama Wants ‘Price Signals’ to ‘Change Behavior’

Charles Johnsonfollow me on twitter
Politics • Sun Nov 2, 2008 at 9:45 am PST • Views: 722

In an interview on Iowa Public TV in 2007, Barack Obama advocated sending “price signals” to middle class consumers in order to “change their behavior.”

“Price signals” being an Orwellian code word for punitive taxes and fees. And Obama doesn’t seem to care much who it would hurt.

(Hat tip: Thanos.)

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