Stu Varney Rages At Bernie Sanders' Tax Plan: 'Where's The Fairness?'
Oh dear, someone over at Fox News thinks life is supposed to be fair. For Stuart Varney, "fair" apparently means keeping all the money one earns in a country where the government socializes loss while privatizing profit.
Varney could hardly wait to launch his rant on Fox and Friends Tuesday morning. He was primed for bear, or in this case, Bernie Sanders, who told Martha McCallum the night before that he supported a 52 percent income tax rate on the rich and an estate tax of far more.
"Here is a guy who is -- he's a 1 percenter. He's a millionaire. And he's a socialist," Varney seethed. "I got a problem with that."
"He is trying to make sure that we, the rest of us on our way up, don't accumulate the kind of pile that he has already got at 77," he went on, as if he isn't a millionaire in his own right.
Warming up, he howled his discontent for all to see. "It is outrageous. He wants to raise the estate tax dramatically to take it off you. Now look, where is the fairness in this? Where is the fairness in taking more, wait, wait, wait. Bernie Sanders constantly goes back to the idea he has a fair plan. He is for fairness in our society. Where is the fairness in taking more than half of anyone's income? Where is it?" he wailed.