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Joy Reid’s recent rant about conservatives supposedly wanting to return to a world with “no income taxes” and “no regulations on business” was as revealing as it was absurd. Reid declared that conservatives dream of a country where you “could earn as much money as you want, leave 100% of it to your children with no taxes,” and then painted that aspiration as some sort of dangerous, fascist plot. Her take was less analysis than a tantrum — proof that the left fears prosperity because it strips away their power to control people’s lives.
Conservative commentators and regular Americans rightly smelled the hypocrisy and rolled their eyes — this wasn’t an expose, it was an admission. Social media lit up with the correct reaction: if choosing prosperity and keeping more of your paychecks is a threat, then the left’s real project is to make citizens dependent on government, not free. The outrage from the right wasn’t manufactured; it was the sound of people fed up with elites who resent hard work and success.
On Newsmax, Chris Salcedo didn’t hold back, lampooning Reid’s “Joyless Reid” theatrics and exposing the double standard of leftist elites who preach compassion while defending a system that seizes people’s earnings. Salcedo, a relentless critic of media bias and a proud conservative voice, used Reid’s own words to make a plain point: freedom to prosper is not a crime, it’s the backbone of American opportunity. His reaction was emblematic of why conservative media matters — we push back when the press tries to shame success.
Reid’s attempt to equate lower taxes and fewer regulations with “fascism” is not only intellectually bankrupt, it’s an insult to Americans who build businesses, raise families, and pass down hope to the next generation. Conservatives understand that letting families keep more of what they earn strengthens communities, funds dreams, and reduces reliance on a bloated bureaucracy that too often rewards dependency. The left would rather lecture you about morality while lobbying to take your wallet; Reid’s comments simply pulled back the curtain on that contempt.
This debate isn’t academic — it’s about concrete policy choices that affect wages, savings, and the future of American exceptionalism. Republicans and reformers have been pushing tax relief, regulatory rollback, and policies that encourage entrepreneurship because they know prosperity spreads opportunity faster than any government program ever could. If Democrats want to argue that confiscatory tax-and-spend schemes are compassionate, they should at least be honest about who benefits: the political class and its cronies, not the hardworking families struggling to get ahead.
Patriots should take Reid’s rant as a rallying cry — don’t let elitists shame you for wanting a brighter future for your children. Tune in to voices like Chris Salcedo and outlets that refuse to bend the knee to leftist orthodoxy, and keep fighting for policies that put more money in American pockets instead of left-wing programs that expand government control. America was built on the idea of liberty and the right to keep the fruits of your labor; anyone who calls that “dangerous” is on the wrong side of history.
