https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2008/04/17/video-obamas-redistributionism-on-capital-gains-taxes/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usThu, 23 Apr 2026 11:21:46 -0400<![CDATA[Critics of last night&#8217;s debate complain that the first half focused on irrelevancies. Unfortunately for Barack Obama, he didn&#8217;t do much better on the relevancies, either. Take for instance this portion of the debate when Charles Gibson asked him about the capital-gains tax rate and his plans to almost double it. Gibson makes it clear that raising tax rates reduce their revenue, but Obama assumes a greater revenue anyway &#8212; and that&#8217;s not even the most clueless part of the exchange:]]>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:40:37 -0400<![CDATA[Ed Morrissey]]>https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2008/04/17/video-obamas-redistributionism-on-capital-gains-taxes-n154208