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So much for Obama’s "firm pledge": The truth about Obama’s tax lies.
Remember back in 1988 when candidate George H. W. Bush pledged “Read my lips: no new taxes”? And then as president, when the Democrat-controlled House & Senate persuaded him to raise taxes as part of the 1990 budget, the media had a field day excoriating Bush for breaking his promise. Remember that?
During the 2008 campaign, then-candidate Obama repeatedly made the same promise. But he was even more explicit in his promise against tax increases.
“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
And last week, while millions of Americans protested the metastasizing of government under Democrat rule — and the tax increases which have accompanied it — President Obama mocked them and repeated his despicable lie about cutting taxes.
“In all, we passed 25 different tax cuts last year. And one thing we haven’t done is raise income taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year — another promise that we kept,” he told supporters at the Arsht Center for the Performing Arts. “So I’ve been a little amused over the last couple of days where people have been having these rallies about taxes. You would think they would be saying thank you.”
Why would we thank him for raising our taxes? (Note: Asterisks in the list below indicate the tax increases on families earning less than $250,000 a year)
Once again, with Democrats in charge, we’re seeing a host of tax hikes. Not only that, but the Obama administration is floating the idea of a new 5% “value-added” tax, too.
…since any Social Security plan would probably preserve benefits for those nearing retirement, it would not help the administration achieve its goal of reducing the deficit to 3 percent of gross domestic product, from 10 percent, within a decade.One way to reach that 3 percent goal, by the calculations of Mr. Obama’s economic team: a 5 percent value-added tax, which would generate enough revenue to simultaneously permit the reduction in corporate tax rates Republicans favor.
I think everyone owes Rep. Joe Wilson a big apology; not only was he right about President Obama’s healthcare “reforms” covering illegal immigrants, he was right that Obama is a liar.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
Awesome, awesome post…keep the good work my fellow patriot
Both Joes were correct.
Joe Wilson and Joe the plumber.
I think this is a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Taxes will go up, Mr. Patriot. Can you blame the democrats that the price of bread isn't 5 cents a loaf like it was back in 1930? The fact is that country is in the shitter.
It just seems kind of whiney that the reason people don't want to pay taxes is because all of a sudden we don't agree with the current people in power. Any solution offered today does not involve finding buried pirate treasure which will pay off our debts. The solution is to somehow restructure our finances. It reminds me of when I went overboard on my credit cards, and I then refinanced my house to pay for it all. I breathed a sigh of relief, and was happier, but deep down, I knew I probably shouldn't have bought that big flatscreen.
I agree that we need to fight to change our attitudes and the way we go forward, including getting new management. But put the blame squarely on the 1776 through 2009 for the tax hikes that are inevitably coming, and then get over it.
Dear Anonymous,
Please enter a username of some sort in the future. It makes following a discussion MUCH easier for everyone. I went ahead and approved your comment since you actually had something substantive to say.
I do, however, disagree strongly with your opinion. Taxes don't necessarily have to go up, particularly right now. To follow you analogy, what the Democrats are doing is like refinancing your house to get a flatscreen TV, and then getting a second, third, and fourth… tenth mortgage to buy TVs to hand out to all your neighbors. It's ludicrous to continue to go into hock in order to provide handouts. And that's what is happening under the guise of nationalized healthcare.
I'm not opposed to paying taxes. What I'm opposed to is paying MORE taxes to finance rampant spending. That goes whether Bush or Obama is in power, makes no difference to me. If you'll read back through my prior blog posts, I have been a very vocal critic of Bush's mismanagement of the economy.
I'm also opposed to President Obama's broken promises and lies, saying he's cut taxes when in fact he and the Democrats in Congress have raised them significantly and deliberately.
I won't "get over it," I'll continue to speak out and oppose bad financial decisions and unconstitutional government expansion.
It may be the case that the democrats are handing out flatscreens to all the neighbors, and that definitely has to stop. But get real, a whole lot of people have a flatscreen already, and somebody's got to pay for that. Anybody who believes the empty promises of "reducing taxes" in campaign speeches is a doofus. And anybody with moderate intelligence REALIZES that taxes will inevitably go up, and will realize that your whining about it is little more than just that. It would therefore make sense that your past posts would whine on about it as well.
I appreciate speaking out against expansionistic whosiwhatever. But what's the use of getting everyone's dander up over something that is so blatantly obvious? The only reason I can think of is that you have a hidden agenda.
Taxes WILL go up. Why are you trying to harness this and latch it on to something that's cheesing you off personally (i.e. party politics)? Why not use the angry public sentiment which is sure to get you site hits, and use it to sell matresses or something?
Again, I agree that a change of management is in order for going forward. But just pointing out the Blatantly Obvious (i.e. that taxes are going up), however cleverly in our new age of techinformation (i.e. by attaching video clips of the doofus making the empty promise), is pointless, and just stirring the pot.
Signed,
A Person (jeezus, why can't anyone be anonymous these days)