President Obama today called for the Bush-era tax cuts to be extended except for upper-income earners — not anything he hasn’t said before, but a carefully timed statement to set up a campaign-season congressional battle.
“It’s not a lack of plans, it’s not a lack of ideas. It’s a stalemate in this town,” Obama said. “Nowhere is this stalemate more pronounced than on the issue of taxes.”
With risers behind him in the East Room, packed with supporters, Obama said the GOP believes “prosperity comes from the top down.”
“I disagree. I think they’re wrong,” he said, calling for no more top-down economics. “The wealthy got wealthier, but most Americans struggle.”
“I believe it’s time to let the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans — folks like myself — to expire,” Obama said. “I might feel differently if we were still in surplus.”
He said he was “not proposing anything radical here,” but promoting a return to Clinton-era rates.
“The American people are with me on this,” Obama said. “Poll after poll shows that is the case.”
The president said his proposal would help 97 percent of small-business owners. “We all say we agree we should extend tax cuts for 98 percent of the American people,” he said. “Let’s agree to do what we agree on.”
He said that “in many ways” the fate of the tax cuts for all income brackets will be decided by the next election. “My opponent will fight to keep them in place, I will fight to end them,” Obama said.
Obama urged Congress to pass the extension of middle-class tax cuts now, then next year “when things have calmed down a bit” they can talk comprehensive tax-code reform.
“It’s true! Valerie Jarret told me so, and she’s pretty much the shot-caller for normal Americans!”
I do not know where his talking points come from! He needs to fire everybody around him because he is going down faster than his poll numbers!
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In 1981, Secretary of Health Education and Welfare Patricia Harris wrote in the Washington Post that libertarian economists Walter Williams and Thomas Sowell are “middle class” so they “don’t know what it is to be poor.”
In fact, Williams grew up in a single-parent household in a poor section of Philadelphia. He was raised by his mother, who was a high school dropout. The family spent time on welfare, and eventually moved into the Richard Allen public housing project. (Sowell, whose father died before he was born, was the son of a maid.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7butJGdUmK0&feature=player_embedded#!
If we the people mattered at all he would have insisted on a man like Walter Williams, and Dr.Thomas Sowell for guidance!
I’ve been catching a few clips of this guy recently, and it amazed me–he’s the classic guy who always has to show he’s the smartest guy in the room, the guy in charge who knows more than you do and is more able than you but will put up with your faults.
Even when he isn’t.
This election will be a contest between the people that want their portfolios fortified against the people that want their welfare benefits augmented.
You know, you are a twit with no brains. One way is about AMERICANS that want a minimal government and more freedom and the welfare leeches that want to keep getting their handouts for doing nothing but popping out more kids.
It took you two days to come up with that post? And I’m a twit?
You funny, boy.
So, we should wait until “things calm down” and talk tax reform next year. Brother Barry, I hope by this time next year, the country won’t be talking to you at all.
Taxing the wealthy has been Obama’s tune since he got into the White House. It will start with the top 1% and gradually move down to the top 2% and so on. If you earn more than $250,000 per year you are in the top 5% and he will move on that group. As it is the top 1% pays 40% of the nation’s income tax. At this point we have more people getting money from the American Dole system than are putting into it.
Here is my next b*tch. My wife and I were comparing notes on what’s going on and she brought up a bill in Congress that would nationalize all private retirement accounts. This is a big one. That means that all the money you put away into IRAs and Keoughs or other forms of retirement accounts is on the line. They want to take the money you worked for and put away, to give it away as they deem is right. If you don’t think that this could happen, it happened in Belgium.
Next b*tch. Obama just signed on to an International Arms Control plan that would limit international sales of arms. It sounds nice but part of it is to regulate privately owned arms. Its a plain gun snatch. If you know what is going on Iran is the head of the UN’s arms control group. Talk about playing right into Iran’s plans….. Remember that Sudan is the head of the UN”s human rights division.
Next b*tch. Obama has invited Egypt’s Morsi to come visit the White House. Morsi is Moslem Brotherhood. Have we forgotten that Al Queda is an off shoot of the Moslem brotherhood. Morsi has just indicated closer ties to Syria and Iran.
Am I insane or has this government gone completely nuts?
Today: “I believe it’s time for the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans — like myself — to expire,” Obama said.
Last week in Ohio, Dem candidate Kaptur said: “Obama is right smack dab in the middle of the middle class” or words to that effect.
So … which is it? And what will be “true” tomorrow?
Nobody seems to remember that obooger and the Moochelle HID a LOT of their income last year by listing it as the MAXIMUM gifts they could give to their brats TAX FREE.
What a two faced lying worthless do nothing politician. Anybody that votes for him should be forced to have a mental examination.
Not true! If it impedes job creation, Mr. President, your wrong! Besides, what happens when the wealthy and businesses relocate to more friendlier economies, will you call for white people that make over 80K fork over more money?
Has anyone considered that our president might actually be insane?
At this point, I’ll just characterize him as a small thinking community organizer who has the arrogance to assume that his version of reality trumps all else.
The complete psychotic break may still be down the road.
I think obama will go around the bend when Romney dissects the plans that obambi had for we ‘mere mortals’. May obama have a long and unhappy life!
Are Malignant Narcissists and Extreme Sociopaths insane?
I’ve considered it and whole Hartley disagree with you, I thing he’s evil.
What a lame diversionary point while the nation hangs on a precipice.
Not to mention that this government could confiscate entire fortunes and it wouldn’t make a dent in Barry’s $5-6 trillion alone
Obama said during some pre-election debate that he knew higher taxes didn’t result in increased revenues (in fact, revenues are decreased) BUT that it needed to be done in the name of…(you can’t guess to fill in this blank, can you ?)…
fairness
Wow, what a great idea! Now, if we agree to go back to Clinton-era tax rates, let’s ALSO agree to go back to Clinton-era SPENDING rates and this entire argument would be over and done with. But no. Obama wants to use the current budget that has been baselined to include the $800B stimulus money…which guarantees huge deficits forever. That way he can continue to push for ever increasing taxes on the rich to close the budget deficit….the budget deficit HE CREATED ON PURPOSE SO HE COULD PUSH FOR MORE AND HIGHER TAXES.
He’s not interested in solving problems. He’s only interested in CREATING problems, so he can artificially manufacture the demand for more taxes and bigger government.
SPENDING, or CUTTING SPENDING is key.Talking about tax rates and growth is pointless unless and until you start cutting programs, agencies and expenditures. You cannot borrow 40 cents of every dollar you spend; it didn’t wrok for the Romans nor the French nor the Brits nor the Soviets. Running up a $16 trillion deficit out children and our children’s children may never be able to pay is criminal.
Romney? Anyone awake out there, hello, Romney?
“……not interested in solving problems”… is correct.
When you have no interest in solving problems, no desire, creativity, or ability, to solve problems, you can only make up some dilemma that can be solved by your prerecorded and practiced problem solving primer.
The American People are setting new paradigms for imprudence.
Here’s how the President is once-again lying with statistics.
It may indeed be true that a majority of American think we should increase tax rates on the rich. Why? Because the majority of Americans pay merely a fraction of total taxes!
In 2009 (the latest year were data is available), the top 10% of taxpayers paid over 70% of ALL federal income taxes. The bottom 50% paid just 2.25%.
http://taxfoundation.org/article/summary-latest-federal-individual-income-tax-data-0#table6
Top taxpayers also pay a SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER effective tax rate than the majority of Americans, EVEN UNDER THE BUSH TAX CUTS!
http://www.twitpic.com/8o8avd/full
Here’s another way he’s lying and the Republicans should call him on it and explain factually how they are lying.
“The president said his proposal would help 97 percent of small-business” owners.
This comes from a claima that 97% of all “small businesses” earn less than 250,000 taxable income, so would be exempt. They arrived at this by including all the individual tax returns that included the form 1040-C (Misc Income from small business). This is a form that individuals file if they have supplemental income outside their W-2 job (such as getting a 1099). It specifically requires income of less than $5000 and no employees. Then they also added all those who are self employed, but employ nobody. They mixed all these “businesses” in with those that EMPLOY people to claim that 97% of them earn less than 250,000. To claim that 97% of businesses that employ people and fall under the varying caregories of “small business” have gross incomes of less than 250,000 is an outright lie.
Now, I don’t have the exact numbers, I’ver seen numbers that put it closer to 50%, but if anyone thinks that, out of all the companies that employ people and run their income thru the individuial return (2/3 of all employers, I believe), only 3% of them have gross pretax incomes of over 250,000, they are braindead. The country wouldn’t be in a recession in that case, or even a depression, it would be out of business entirely! So, Republican establishment, can you pelase have a spine and spell this lie out, and explain that yes, A) this WILL be a tax increase on your employer and that will hit you, and B) Barack Obama is lying to you about it with the 97% number. I would suggest they use the phrase “LYING TO YOU”. Except they’re probably too afraid to…..
His percentages are false and the polls he refers to are done by left-wing polsters known for padding the numbers. A new day, more lies. Nothing new.
So based on your poll reasoning… People are against Obamacare so Obama is going to repeal tomorrow also correct?
We are only going admin on polls? Good… People are against abortion, against DADT, they are against gay marriage, they are against about everything you have done Mr. Pres…. so when does the repealing begin?
Higher taxes on wealthy I guess Obama is on the way to create problems for his own election campaigns… I guess a survey is suggested “Will economy go up or down by imposing taxes on wealthy people of America?”
Use this presidential office: http://www.surveytool.com/bulletin-surveys/
This talk of a return to the Clinton era tax rate is a crock of you know what. Clinton happened to be one lucky son-of-a-you-know-what in that he was lucky enough to be the president during a once-in-a-lifetime event, the Internet boom.
There is nothing going on in the current economy that could possibly justify raising taxes on anyone, let alone the so-called wealthly which is mostly small businesses making over 250 thousand.
Our pathetic phony “president” is just replaying the class warfare card like the good little Marxist that is he is, like a record player stuck in the same groove.
To borrow from that bastion of cynicism, Mr Charles Brown, to Obama, “I don’t mind your dishonesty half as much as I mind your opinion of me. You must think I’m stupid.”
The real problem is that government provides worse and worse services, and wants more and more money for them.
Obama wants to paper over the real problem by making us think someone else is paying. In the end, as he gets more and more desperate for revenues, everyone winds up paying.
The central problem, which he refuses to understand, is the amount of the bill, not who’s stuck with it.
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Nah!
It is YOU that doesn’t understand. Obama doesn’t really CARE.
OBAMA KNOWS BEST! YOU MUST YIELD!
Any adult with a lick of common sense knows that the leftists’ strategy has been to pile on unsustainable spending and then call for higher taxes. It’s been that way for decades. But watch, the idiot Romney won’t say a peep about the $1 Trillion in payoffs to “his friend” that the commie piled on a month after his annointment, which is now “the baseline”
This guy’s brain is stuck in the world of the 1950′s.
He doesn’t have the mental capacity to learn, not the desire to do anything but surf the internet and chat with his celebrity bros while the world crumbles around him.
If he didn’t memorize it in high school, to him, it cannot possibly be true.
“Obama: ‘American People are With Me’ on Higher Taxes for Wealthy”
Not the American people who are wealthy, Mr. President, and particularly your & Eric Holder’s good friend, Denise Rich. Since she’s renounced her U.S. citizenship, she won’t be able to vote for you. Oh, wait . . . she’s a liberal Democrat! So she can renounce her citizenship, avoid paying U.S. taxes at the high(er) rates you want, & still vote!
“I believe we should raise taxes on the people who create 90% of the jobs in this country. I’m sure they’ll reward Americans with jobs as a result.”
–No Voter, Ever
The Media Is Waking Up To Ron Paul!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L01DyG1mgAc&feature=player_embedded#!
I personally like the idea that anyone that votes and sends money to green companies be charged a CO2 on all the CO2 that they exhale.
And any politician that likes carbon credits and want to harm oil and other energy sources also be charged a CO2 tax on all the CO2 that they expel.
We can start modestly with a 5 Cent per exhale for all those in the president’s White House, and all his former employees that have left.
That’s only a few dollars a day and they are all making such good money, that they can afford it.
And since this won’t affect the unwashed masses, they will probably vote for this tax on CO2 emissions and all will be good.
“The American people are with me on this,” Obama said. “Poll after poll shows that is the case.”
What he meant to say: “I have no moral fiber, but I’ll do anything to get re-elected.”
“The wealthy got wealthier, but most Americans struggle.”
I guess the 1980s and the 1990s just passed Obama by. I guess he missed the fact that when the economy is booming, EVERYBODY does well, NOT just the wealthy. But to a socialists like Obama, he won’t rest or be happy until everybody is brought down to the poverty level. To him, THAT is social justice. Which is why we have throw this bum out of office in November.
I think that it is spelled Obuma.
My worst fear is that Romney is deliberately ignoring Obama’s worst offenses (the cover up of Fast and Furious with executive privilege, spending billions to keep all his records sealed, his ties to communists like Bill Ayers, his false social security number, his numerous social security numbers and aliases, the lies he told in his so called ‘autobiography’, and on, and on. Romney ran a merciless campaign during the primaries because he WANTED to be the GOP candidate. Now that he is facing Obama, he acts as if Obama is Mohammed himself and will not call him on the worst things he has done. I believe that Romney’s mission is to make sure that Obama is re elected, and is only doing only the minimum to make the race look legitimate. I do not trust Romney. I believe he is delivering the presidency to Obama on a silver platter. Unless Romney is openly called on what he is doing, he will throw this race, as he was probably told to do.
But President Barack Hussein Obama, aren’t you being DECEPTIVE when you make a speech about taxing the WEALTHY? Is it possible for you to state the TRUTH and tell the public that you are ruthlessly planning to tax them to death? And at the same time, DESTROY the FREEDOM of Americans?
Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com:
Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision hands federal government unlimited power to force you to spend 100% of your paycheck on things you don’t even want.
Regardless of whether you agree with the fundamentals of
Obamacare, the fact that the U.S. Supreme Court has now ruled the
federal government has the power to tax Americans into mandatory purchases of private industry products means an end to economic freedom in America.
Why? Because it hands the federal government the power to force the American people to buy anything the government wants or face tax penalties for refusing to do so. It is the equivalent of announcing a federal monopoly over all private purchasing decisions.
Thus, the government can force Americans to buy anything it wants by simply characterizing the forced payment as a “tax.”
Perhaps the worst side effect is that Obamacare isn’t really about health care at all. It’s about protecting a Big Pharma monopoly over medicine; forcing consumers to buy into a system that offers zero coverage for alternative medicine, nutritional therapies, natural remedies or the healing arts.It forces consumers to buy into a system of monopoly medicine of drugs and surgery…
http://www.naturalnews.com/036329_Obamacare_Supreme_Court_economic_freedom.html
An INFERIOR, IMMORAL health care plan that NO ONE WANTS and CANNOT AFFORD TO PAY.
Massive spending as if there is no tomorrow. Fighting wars we have no money for. Massive borrowing.
The Massive giving away of BILLIONS of dollars every year to other countries, including the OIL-WEALTHY Middle East, Hamas-controlled Gaza and the Palestinian Authority organization who fill their war chests, build mansions and LAUGH all the way to the bank with FREE INFIDEL MONEY. Whilst in America, homeless shelters are filled to capacity; tent cities have sprung up all over the U.S. filled with desperate, jobless, homeless Americans.
Massive debt. The MASSIVE printing of paper money out of thin air to DELIBERATELY create out-of-control inflation. There is no question that the total DESTRUCTION of America’s economy is PLANNED. The results will be horrifying. In the once wealthy and great nation of America, millions of Americans will become destitute, hungry and homeless with no money or resources to help them.
Organic, non-GMO avocado, fruit and nut trees and berries must be planted in all of our nation’s cities’ and towns’ parks to help the many millions of Americans who will soon be in a desperate struggle to survive because of the frightening, highly destructive economic policies of our government.
Watch it. And weep for our great nation and people:
FALL Of The Republic – The Presidency Of Barack H Obama – The Full Movie HQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8LPNRI_6T8&feature=player_embedded
Awesome One Minute video REMEMBER in NOVEMBER!
America Crossroads: Operation Hot Mic
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?feature=player_embedded&v=-Czo5Vf8KZs
Is Stockton California the economic model for the Obama Administration?
Folks-if you have not, read “Atlas Shrugged”. It is a long slog (1000 pages) but will give you some insight on Obama and his planners
This year, he will soak the rich. Next year, he’ll have “more flexibilities” to soak the almost rich.
As one affected by this, I think the GOP will need to cave on this–not that it is a good idea to raise taxes. Taxes are going to up for all of us at the level we are spending. However, when will spending come under control? The Bowles/Simpson idea may be a decent counter to populist rhetoric.
Federalist #28
The people are to hold the power of the the Federal government in check to prevent it from usurping power.
Original quote:”In a confederacy the people, the people without exaggeration, may be said to be entirely the masters of their own fate.Power being almost always the rival of power, the general government will at all times stand ready to check usurpation’s of the state governments, and these will have the same disposition towards the general government. The people, by throwing themselves into either scale, will infallibly make it preponderate.”
Those who are fighting for smaller government are not simply expressing opinions;they are exercising the ultimate constitutional check on federal power. If the people stand by and accept the federal government’s ever expanding role, then there is no barrier left to eventual tyranny.
Nearly a trillion down the drain on stimulus.
$9 Billion in ‘Stimulus’ for Solar, Wind Projects Made 910 Final Jobs — $9.8 Million Per Job”
Another solar energy company that got loan guarantees from the dept. of energy (like Solyndra) just went belly up last week.
Reportedly, stimulus money was used to finance straw purchases of weapons in Fast & Furious.
Talk to me about raising taxes on “the rich” Barry.
The class warfare dance is all you’ve got going for you.
I am ready to face the slings and arrows so here goes: Why not tax the rich?
Who would not want Hollyweird to pay more in taxes? Who would not want Soros, Buffett, and Teresa Hinez and the other uber wealthy to pay a higher rate on their distributions and a wealth tax? Who would not want lawyers to pay higher taxes? Who would not want CEOs on Wall Street to pay higher taxes? Who would not want NFL/NBA and even some MLBers to pay higher taxes? How about union bosses and MSM anchors, writers, editors, publishers and owners?
This is the left wing’s financial base so why not tax them? Look, they want to pay more so let them eat their words. Make exceptions for business owners with 100 or fewer employees. Why are we so hung up on the idea that every millionaire or person making over $250k is a business owner??? Why is it all or nothing? Who cares if it does not make a difference to the debt or deficit; it takes the money out of the left’s hands and reduces their ability to hurt us. I see this as a win-win.
How many of you here make more than $250k? I sure do not.
It is not uncommon for someone in business to make over $250K once in a great while, such as when they sell a business or investment. Bingo, they are rich and get whacked. Income averaging was a way for those with sporadic income to play on a level playing field with those who have a steady income. The latter are best represented by government workers. They never have a dip or a banner year. They are not “rich” unless you place a present value on their COLA powered lifetime pensions, something unknown in the private sector, and also very tax efficient.
The rich you mention will never pay more taxes, because their tax attornies and accountants know how to use all the loopholes to avoid taxes.
Only the small business owners will get socked with the tax Obama is proposing.
And the liberal rich will continue to keep their wealth, will continue to scream tax the rich (but not them) more and will continue to contribute to Obama and the other liberal politicians.
Liberalism is truly a mental disorder!
Go to NR online and see the cartoon showing a balloon ready to be launched (Obama’s tax ideas) where weights of Obama policies are at the bottom preventing it from moving up and where the top of the balloon is ready to be cut as Obama insists he is only affecting the top one percent.
Now we only need to wait for the economy to take flight.
The only people for it are the “takers”…people who pay no taxes…the out to get’um types…
No new taxes on anyone. Quit spending our money like it was yours.
Look around and see the rich, the wealthy people these “Democrats” are talking about.
Those rich/wealthy people who should pay more taxes. Are they those rich/wealthy people who pay more in lawyers fees than the gross national product to assure they pay as few, as little, tax as possible with their off-shore bank accounts, their other tax indulgences and forgivenesses?
Tell us about all those rich/wealthy people who never in their entire lives made jobs for other people except their talking shop brethren/sistren, their lawyers and of course their chauffeurs, their pilots and crews to manage their personal planes, their crews to man their personal yachts, their professors in their exclusive, expensive old-boy/girl networks etc.
These rich/wealthy who have in the main never had a job that produces anything of value to other people. Who have lived one way or another on the backs of other people: their parents via inherited wealth, the taxpayers – that 49% of the population who pay a penny in tax – federal, state and local – for the maintenance of the mortgages and gasoline for those who do not, who choose not to work at all or only on the “black” market but are reckoned poor and disadvantaged whether they are or not. Those who keep these compassionate liberals in their jobs with humongous quasi-royal privileges under the “general welfare” clauses of the Constitution.
These people who tell us the rich/wealthy should pay more tax. Are these rich/wealthy who should pay more tax compassionate feel your pain liberals: The Obamas, the Kennedys – ALL the Kennedys, the Clintons, ALL the Clintons, the Romneys, ALL the Romneys, the Pelosis, ALL the Pelosis, the Reids, ALL the Reids, the Bushes, ALL the Bushes, the Holders ALL the Holders, etc.
I think we should be told.
Here Jojo … chew on this. I have not checked into these “facts” yet but, from what I do know, they ring true. I gleaned this from another newsletter commentary …
Just Some Real Facts About Mitt Romney That We Will Not Hear About From The Lame Stream Media About The Real Mitt Romney!
All you will hear from the Lame Stream Media about Romney will be negative or repulsive (from Mitt’s high school days approx. 50 years ago!) that in no way proves anything about what this man is made of today. The facts below are much more informative than what CNN or MSNBC can dig up about Romney.
Mitt Romney: After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar, but never worked as an attorney.
As a venture-capitalist, Romney’s first major business deal involved investing in a start-up office supply company with one store in Massachusetts that sold office supplies. That company, called Staples, now has over 2,000 stores and employs over 90,000 people. Romney or his company Bain Capital (using what became known as the “Bain Way”) would go on to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino’s, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply, and many others.
Got your calculators handy? Let’s recap. Volunteer campaign worker for his dad’s gubernatorial campaign 1 year.
Unpaid intern in Governor’s office 8 years.
Mormon missionary in Paris 2 years.
Unpaid bishop and state president for his church 10 years.
No salary as president of the Olympics 3 years. No salary as MA governor 4 years.
That’s a grand total of 28 years of unpaid service to his country, his community and his church.
And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income….
Obama gave 1%
Joe Biden gave $300 or .0013%
This is real character vs….well you know what!
Romney may not be the best representative the Republicans could have selected. At least I know what religion he is, and that he won’t desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or squander my money on vacations. I know he has the ability to turn this financial debacle that the “Spending President” has gotten us into around. We didn’t know that when Obama said he’d give us change, he meant nickels and dimes, and he would get the big bucks. We won’t like all the things necessary to recover from this debt, but someone with Romney’s background can do it.
But, on the minus side, He never was a “Community Organizer”, never took drugs or smoked pot. Never got drunk. Did not associate with communists or terrorists. Nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to damn the U.S
I don’t know who is being “polled” because I don’t know ANYONE who wants to see and end to the tax cuts. Even my ultra-liberal sisters don’t support the end of the “Bush tax-cuts.”
THIS MAN IS THE BIGGEST LIAR TO EVER HOLD THE WHITE HOUSE.
HE CANNOT SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN FRANCE, WITH THE PROPOSAL OF HIGHER TAXES ON THE RICH!! THE JOBS CREATORS ARE LEAVING FRANCE AND MOVING TO ANYPLACE ELSE ON THE PLANET THAT IS NOT PUNISHING THEM FOR CREATING JOBS AND GETTING RICH IN THE PROCESS. I HAVE HAD A WHOLE HOST OF DIFFERENT JOBS AND HAVE NEVER HAD MY PAYCHECK SIGNES BY A “POOR PERSON”, “JOBLESS PERSON”, “COMMUNITY ORGANIZER”, “CONGRESSMAN”, OR “SENATOR”, (FEDERAL,STATE OR LOCAL).
Fortunately for Obama this will not effect the majority of his administration because they dont pay their taxes anyways. I cannot believe that he is still polling as well as he is polling, but when 50% of the population is in some way dependent on the federal govt. I shouldn’t be to surprised. America this country cannot withstand 4 more years of this man, thats assuming in 4 years he is not king Obama.
Obama is living in a fantasy land if he thinks the American people agree on any tax increase. The ruse of this president & the Democrat party in general is to create class warfare in order to get their foot in the door to raise taxes on everybody. In fact, as Obama himself says, he urged Congress to pass the extension of middle-class tax cuts now along with a tax increase on the “rich”, then next year “when things have calmed down a bit” they can talk comprehensive tax-code reform. This future tax reform is needed, however, the reforms he has shown that he is interested in are not reforming the tax code to ease the burden on taxpayers but to take more taxes from all Americans! The increase in taxes on the “rich”, as he maintains, are on small as well as all businesses. The more they are taxed the less they have to invest in their businesses; indeed, this is where layoffs & expansion plans that result in more jobs are cut back or cancelled. As for investors in all areas there will be less invested in the American economy because of the tax burden, resulting in a dampening of economic growth. Obama does not understand how the economy works, or worse, wants to bring Americans to their knees to increase government & power to those who run the government. The problem is, Obama & most of the rest of the Democrats have, over the past 31/2 years been running it into the ground! When Reagan lowered taxes for everybody which had risen to ridiculous levels under Jimmy Carter, the economy boomed. As money goes out of the productive sector to the non-productive sector the result is more power to Washington over our lives & less to grow an economy that would benefit all!!The “rich” anymore can be defined as anyone having more than the one doing the whining. To tax anyone in the over $250,000 bracket,as he keeps saying, after taxes & other costs, the take home for a business owner is closer to $125,000. This is what we’re not told & this is why this is a ruse to get more play money for government leaving the rest of us to pay for it in every way that can be imagined!!!
Sure, the Owebyssmal-nation sheeple who pay NO FED TAXES AT ALL love the idea of increasing taxes that they’ll never pay anyway! Owebama is a slimey slithering LIAR and DECEIVER of the highest order!
It’s amazing how Obama just keeps making things up and the public swallows it. How unfortunate that so many of the American public don’t think!
Awww … so what else is new? He will say stuff until all the morons are droning his mantra along with him.
If you point out that this is just more “kicking the can …” they don’t get it because it requires a view of the future beyond the next commercial, level on their video game, tweet or phone call.
It used to be that people lived from paycheck to paycheck until those stopped. Now many of them have gotten used to the idea of living from Gov check to Food Stamp to Gov supplimented mortgage payment. It turns out that after eating a little bit of pride to be amazingly easy to do. It leaves so much more time for TV, video games and texting that you never notice the loss of anything like a dream for the future.
Of course they are going to be ok with the idea of more taxes and … icky Government stuff … as far as they can see, it has nothing to do with them. How can the Government HURT them when it is providing for ALL THEIR NEEDS?!?!
Do a flat tax so every one has to pay.
No Mr. President we are not with you.
Almost half the US doesn’t pay federal taxes, and small percentage of tax payors (like 5%) pay over half the taxes collected, and people want them to pay more? That is “fair.” It is only a disincentive to make more.
Federal spending has doubled since Clinton, with tax revenues staying between $2 and $2.5 Trillion. The problem is a SPENDING ISSUE, not a tax collection issue. STOP SPENDING my kids (and their kids) lives into tax debt slavery.
..and oh yeah, we are onto you and the Fed about printing more money to monitorize the debt, and we know it has cost us reduced values of houses, retirement funds, etc.
HEIS AN OUT AND OUT LIAR…!! HE IS SO JEALOUS OF ANYONE WITH MONEY…( THAT THEY EARNED THEMSELVES ..YET..) ESPECIALLY MITT ROMNEY…WONDERFUL MR. ROMNEY..
THAT COMMIE OBAMA GOT HIS BY CHEATING…IF HE IS SO …POOR…..HOW COME HIS MISSUS
CAN PAY $ 600. FOR A PR. OF SHOES…POOR OBAMA…GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR WHITE HOUSE YOU PHONEY..GET LOST…!
I FOR ONE…DESPISE HIM….HE IS A COMMUNIST..FOR SURE………….! GIVE YOUR MONEY ( THAT YOU EARNED ILLEGALY ) TO THE POOR..GET THE HELL OFF OF OUR BACKS…
With risers behind him in the East Room, packed with supporters, Obama said the GOP believes “prosperity comes from the top down.”
“I disagree. I think they’re wrong,” he said, calling for no more top-down economics. “The wealthy got wealthier, but most Americans struggle.”
I love that we should put a stop to top-down economics. Wonder how many centuries it will take for all that wealth to fight gravity and trickle up from the bottom.
If this narcissistic socialist thinks the American people are with him, then I have some ocean front property in Arizona I will sell to him real cheap! Just more lies from the “great deceiver” who continues to think he can again dupe people into voting for him. Of course there are a certain amount of uninformed, selfish and politically ignorant people who will vote for Obama no matter what. But that isn’t enough votes and Obama knows it, which is why he tells one lie after another(he has no record to run on)! Obama ;must be defeated in November. This is the most important election since the founding of our nation!
Let’s call ‘em what they really are: TAX RATES. Good gosh, after over 8 yrs of these same rates they are nor should be considered “cuts”. taxes But the Dems still call ‘em cuts to imply that “somebody’s gonna get their tax rate lowered.” Nobody’s taxes are being cut, lowered, reduced, abridged or whatever other term you may want to use. To continue these rates is what we want for the time being; and to make ‘em permanent in the very near future is the over all goal. So from this day forward, conservatives, call ‘em what they really are::: T A X R A T E S.
No the American people are NOT with you on this. I am so very tired of politicians in general, and Obama in particular. EVERY single problem we have in this country was caused in some way by a politician! Every time something goes wrong, do they explain HOW it happenned? Hell no, then they’d have to admit they screwed up. I heard Obama giving a speech, where he was talking about a Republican bill to lower the death tax. Obama said something like “well if this man has 2 million dollars when he dies, he’s going to have to pay alot more tax. I mean, I can’t just give the guy 2 million dollars”. WHAT? It is not YOUR money Obama, it is that man’s life savings and it belongs to his children. Letting him keep his money is NOT you giving it to him, YOU didn’t earn it! Please, people, let’s get this creep out of our lives this November.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT PLANET THIS GUY IS LIVING ON, BUT HE NEED TO GO BACK TO KENYA.HE IS SUCH A MORON .