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"Hate Tax for the Successful"

British MEP (Member of the European Parliament) Nigel Farage knows how to deliver some zingers. In a speech decrying efforts to strengthen the European Union, Farage predicted the EU's ultimate demise, dropped a few stinging insults, and declared that the British people would reject potential referendums to increase ties between his nation and the EU.

Farage's best line? Describing French President François Hollande's proposed tax increases (which are substantial) on the wealthy as a "Hate tax for the succesful."

Expect to hear that one in short order in political ads in the United States.

H/T Guido Fawkes blog.

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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