October 31st, 2009 1:31 pm

I’m From The State Department, And I’m Here To Help

From the woman who famously said, “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good“, comes her latest Kinsley-esque gaffe:

“The percentage of taxes on GDP (in Pakistan) is among the lowest in the world… We (the United States) tax everything that moves and doesn’t move, and that’s not what we see in Pakistan,” she said.

But it is what we really see in California.

(Somewhere, just offstage, the Gipper is reminding people: See, I told you so.)

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