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A scary Halloween with Sarah Palin

In central Pennsylvania, the Republican base is afraid of Obama, and lost in fever dreams of a neo-Soviet nightmare. But it's all in God's hands.
By Rebecca Traister

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  • Saturday, November 1, 2008 09:04 AM

    Graduated income tax = commie

    The Republican ticket's attacks on Obama as a socialist are only viable among people who think that a graduated income tax equals Marxism--who are too bedazzled or inattentive to realize that (1) the income tax has ALWAYS been graduated, (2) the topmost bracket was, under Eisenhower and even Reagan, MUCH higher than it is now, and (3) taxes are a tool of capitalist, not Marxist governments, so shut up already.

    Such people can probably also be persuaded that speed limits on highways are a tool of totalitarian control.

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