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During Tea Parties, President To Highlight Tax Cuts
realclearpolitics.com ^ | 4/14/09 | Kyle Trygstad & Mike Memoli

Posted on 04/14/2009 8:13:00 PM PDT by melt

Tomorrow is Tax Day, and conservatives across the country are planning "Tea Parties," intended to be grass-roots "revolts" against the Obama administration's economic policies thus far. Though organized independent of the Republican Party, a number of officeholders and candidates are planning to attend local events.

At the White House, Robert Gibbs said that he's not sure if President Obama is aware of the planned demonstrations. He will, however, mark the day with a White House event "to signal the important steps in the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment plan that cut taxes for 95 percent of working families in America," Gibbs said.

"We'll use tomorrow to highlight individual instances and families that have seen their taxes cut," he said. "Americans will see more money into their pockets as a direct result of the making work pay tax cut that the president both campaigned on and passed through Congress."

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Yeah, right.

And the trillion dollar tax-hiker will be delivering his message via "Tea"leprompter...

1 posted on 04/14/2009 8:13:00 PM PDT by melt
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To: melt

Here are some pennies for some of you peasants. The shiny pennies will hopefully distract you from the digging that I shall do in your wallet...and your kids’ wallets.


2 posted on 04/14/2009 8:16:59 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: melt

Idiots, Businesses don’t pay these increased taxes. They either go out of business laying people off or pass it on to 95% of Americans.

Econ101, Idiots.

When is someone going to call them on this.


3 posted on 04/14/2009 8:18:14 PM PDT by dila813
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To: melt
I hope the Tea Parties around the country causes every knee
in Foggy Bottom to shake.
4 posted on 04/14/2009 8:18:48 PM PDT by Markos33 (Extreme Right-Wing Extremist)
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To: melt

I’ve never been able to place a Blog entry into Breaking News.

How did you do that??


5 posted on 04/14/2009 8:19:07 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR. ....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: melt

under Bush I got a nice tax cut and a useful check

this year I got zip....


6 posted on 04/14/2009 8:19:25 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: melt

Yes the incredibly insignificant and laughable $ 400 dollars one time tax credit for people making $ 75,000 or less which amounts to 8 dollars per week. On the other hand he is adding trillions of dollars in additional tax increases and will allow the Bush tax cuts to expire and then each tax payer will be paying much more in taxes.


7 posted on 04/14/2009 8:19:28 PM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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To: melt

The “stimulus” package only gave very limited tax credits, not tax cuts.

- $400 for singles making $70K or less.
- $800 for joint filers making $140K or less


8 posted on 04/14/2009 8:20:15 PM PDT by avacado
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To: dila813
Excellent post. When the company I work for will be paying tens of millions of dollars more in taxes because of socialist Obama tax increase then for certain my company is going to lay off a lot of people.
9 posted on 04/14/2009 8:22:06 PM PDT by jveritas (God Bless our brave troops)
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10 posted on 04/14/2009 8:23:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: melt

I don’t believe this for a second. They think I’m upper middle class. Even if I did get a slight “tax-cut”, it’s not going to make up for the PAY-cut my employer gave me so he could pay his higher taxes.


11 posted on 04/14/2009 8:23:08 PM PDT by babyfreep
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To: melt

Officeholders and candidates will be speaking at the Tea Parties? Oh, this should be good!

Any current officeholder who gets up on stage had better be wearing a helmet and a stain-resistant suit! And if any of them voted for the stimulus package (without reading the damn thing) then they’d better know how to scrape tar and feathers off their miserable hides.

Candidates are OK but they had better say EXACTLY the right things (return to the Constitution, slash federal spending to include entire departments, eliminate the IRS, etc.). Or else.

Oh yeah, this could be lots of fun!


12 posted on 04/14/2009 8:24:12 PM PDT by DNME ("When small men cast long shadows, the sun is about to set.")
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To: melt

The Messiah said there are no earmarks and pork in his stimulus plan. If the Messiah says he’s pro-tax cut, then it must be true.


13 posted on 04/14/2009 8:27:04 PM PDT by yongin
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To: melt

the more they use the phrase 95 percent the more fake and phoney it sounds. I”m so tired of hearing tax cuts for 95 percent and anyone over $250K.

It is beyond stupid


14 posted on 04/14/2009 8:27:06 PM PDT by genxer
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To: melt
At the White House, Robert Gibbs said that he's not sure if President Obama is aware of the planned demonstrations. Where has this Obama been? He knows there are tea parties... if he doesn't maybe Gibby should tell him
15 posted on 04/14/2009 8:29:37 PM PDT by JoanneSD (illegals represented without taxation.. Americans taxed without representation)
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To: genxer

He doesn’t know that tens of thousands of people across the country are taking to the streets in protest against our government. Oh, please. Would they lie?


16 posted on 04/14/2009 8:33:24 PM PDT by maranatha
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To: melt

These so-called “tea parties” are not about taxes. The protests are about all the marxist crap and enormous debt Obama and congress are putting on the backs of the American people for now and generations to come. It is about a movement to save our country from destruction by hoodlums and marxists.


17 posted on 04/14/2009 8:34:12 PM PDT by Jukeman (.)
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To: potlatch

.

“I’m going to bankrupt the coal industry!” (58% of US power generation!)

“Electric power costs will skyrocket! (for you peons!)

“Gasoline prices ‘just went up much to fast’ this time!”

“No nukes!”

“No offshore drilling!”

“No ANWAR drilling!”

“I will provide energy with wind and solar!”

“....maybe a little blow....”

“...can I please eat my $100/lb. Yagwa steak!”


18 posted on 04/14/2009 8:34:46 PM PDT by devolve ( - - - - - - - - - - - - - It is just another Pansy Scheme! - - -)
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To: melt

Is this the tax cut that returns a whopping $13 a week to taxpayers? Too bad the congress didn’t return its automatic pay raise while they were at it.

And too bad Obama can’t seem to travel with less than 500 adoring employees. How much did that cost the taxpayers?


19 posted on 04/14/2009 8:34:58 PM PDT by quintr
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To: melt

This is a laugher.


20 posted on 04/14/2009 8:35:54 PM PDT by St. Louis Conservative
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To: melt

No one really expected Obama to just let the issue go, to cede it to the “Tea Party” crowds, did you? He’s gonna throw out his propaganda, and the MSM will lap it up like Cats at a bowl of warm milk.

:See,” they will say, “these few, poor, pitiful fools are no threat to us...” Hmmm...Sorry, I seem to be hearing the voice of Emperor Palpatine for some reason...


21 posted on 04/14/2009 8:37:48 PM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: All

I Hear America Singing
by Walt Whitman

I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand
singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the morning, or
at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of
the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows,
robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15752


22 posted on 04/14/2009 8:43:49 PM PDT by combat_boots (The answer to 1984 is 1776)
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To: genxer

They say SO MANY LIES....you’d think even hard core libs would start questioning them....wouldn’t you?


23 posted on 04/14/2009 8:45:59 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Say NO to the $10 Trillion Ransom to DC)
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To: patriot preacher
Wow. So he thinks pointing out he is giving taxpayer dollars to those that don't pay taxes is a good thing?

What a putz.

24 posted on 04/14/2009 8:47:18 PM PDT by Gabrial (Obama Lied - The Economy Died)
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To: melt

I’ve been commenting less lately but this one I have to respond to.

This arrogant SOB gibbs ...I’m glad they aren’t going to be monitoring tomorrow’s activity ...all the better to sneak up on them and drive them out of town on a rail!

Puss sucking creeps.


25 posted on 04/14/2009 8:52:09 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Get the bats and light the hay)
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To: melt

Not a single one of Obama’s ‘tax cuts’ are genuine pro-growth pro-work tax cuts that cut the taxes on work, savings, production or income.

They are all ‘tax credit’ welfare payments, subsidies for following the social engineers ways (buy a hybrid!) and/or something-for-nothing giveaways.

As such they are poison for a free economy.


26 posted on 04/14/2009 8:52:53 PM PDT by WOSG (Why is Obama trying to bankrupt America with $16 trillion in spending over the next 4 years?)
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To: patriot preacher
No one really expected Obama to just let the issue go, to cede it to the “Tea Party” crowds, did you? He’s gonna throw out his propaganda, and the MSM will lap it up like Cats at a bowl of warm milk.

Yes, but look on the bright side. He is so insecure he feels he has to steal our thunder and tout his own phony tax cuts.

27 posted on 04/14/2009 8:53:57 PM PDT by WOSG (Why is Obama trying to bankrupt America with $16 trillion in spending over the next 4 years?)
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To: Jukeman
These so-called “tea parties” are not about taxes. The protests are about all the marxist crap and enormous debt Obama and congress are putting on the backs of the American people for now and generations to come. It is about a movement to save our country from destruction by hoodlums and marxists.

Well said. That is why my sign tomorrow will be: "STOP OBAMA'S SOCIALISM!" that is what the TEA Party is about.

28 posted on 04/14/2009 8:54:53 PM PDT by WOSG (Why is Obama trying to bankrupt America with $16 trillion in spending over the next 4 years?)
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To: melt

mmmmm....First it was the timing of the release of the DHS hit piece and now I wonder what TIME this so-called White House event is going to take place (surely sometime late afternoon) and whether or not it will require media coverage (surely it will). I’ve also heard that the captain and crew just happen to be returning stateside tomorrow at about the same time as many of the events are to be covered. Couldn’t get them home any sooner doncha know.


29 posted on 04/14/2009 8:55:02 PM PDT by Kimberly GG (Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda been HUNTER.)
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To: JoanneSD

I know. That was the laugh-out-loud line of this. Doesn’t KNOW?

ROFL.

Maybe his nose is too far up the new lead dog’s butt.


30 posted on 04/14/2009 8:55:10 PM PDT by Winstons Julia
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To: JoanneSD

I have a real tough time believing that 0bama does not know about what’s happening tomorrow. I think that was Gibbs little frat boy way of being snarky.


31 posted on 04/14/2009 8:59:31 PM PDT by kozanne
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To: melt
At the White House, Robert Gibbs said that he's not sure if President Obama is aware of the planned demonstrations.

Raaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhght, Mr. Gibbs. Tell us another big fat lie!

32 posted on 04/14/2009 9:07:59 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: dila813
When is someone going to call them on this.

Tomorrow!!!! With our signs at the Tea Parties!

33 posted on 04/14/2009 9:10:10 PM PDT by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: genxer
the more they use the phrase 95 percent the more fake and phoney it sounds.

Yeah, like he didn't bow to that Saudi either.

34 posted on 04/14/2009 9:10:43 PM PDT by appleseed
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To: melt
BFD

The $20 every two weeks sure as hell doesn't cover the 10% paycut I'm now enjoying from the 0bama economy.

Plus living in Ca. state taxes now more than eat up the crumbles your tax cut serves up.

Guess I'll never fly that St Louis pizza chef to my house to make me a pizza and my wife will not have a 24/7 make-up artist attending her every need.

Hey 0bama, I'm clearly worse off than I was before you took office and ITS ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE.

35 posted on 04/14/2009 9:10:56 PM PDT by A message (3 years 9 months 6 days)
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To: melt

Is it a tax cut or a withholding adjustment?


36 posted on 04/14/2009 9:14:22 PM PDT by crazyhorse46
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To: melt
I used e-file to submit my taxes the other day. The message I got back might as well have read...

"Congratulations, the IRS has accepted your meager tribute payment. Your money will help to fund the tiny fraction of our pork laden budget and the stimulus packages that are sure to leave us with no choice but to take even more from you next year. You will be happy to know that millions of poor Americans without the desire to work as hard as you have been given some of your tax money as part of the Making Work Pay program. It's only fair because you are obviously overpaid and they deserve a share of your salary too."

37 posted on 04/14/2009 9:18:09 PM PDT by eggman (Obama's Spread the Wealth will work just as well as Spread the Liabilities (sub-prime mortgages))
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To: melt

Bring it on!

This IS, after all, a debate. Will it be slavery or freedom?


38 posted on 04/14/2009 9:20:34 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (What did Obama's Teleprompter know, and when did it know it...)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

I want to see commercials to educate the public.

Aren’t education commercials supposed to be free?


39 posted on 04/14/2009 9:20:34 PM PDT by dila813
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
At the White House, Robert Gibbs said that he's not sure if President Obama is aware of the planned demonstrations.

I bet his teleprompter knows about them.

40 posted on 04/14/2009 9:24:04 PM PDT by eggman (Obama's Spread the Wealth will work just as well as Spread the Liabilities (sub-prime mortgages))
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To: melt

Evidently Obama knows that his base is so moronic that if he says twenty times a day that he has cut their taxes, they will think he has cut their taxes.


41 posted on 04/14/2009 9:24:57 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan (If Bishop D'Arcy finds out a priest is molesting kids, he will boycott the parish's Fall Supper!!!)
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To: eggman
you betcha! the TOTUS is well aware of the Tea Parties
42 posted on 04/14/2009 9:26:28 PM PDT by Ancient Drive (will)
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To: melt
Robert Gibbs said that he's not sure if President Obama is aware of the planned demonstrations.

Has anybody else the noticed the continuous flow of weasel words coming from the press secretary?
43 posted on 04/14/2009 9:28:43 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life)
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To: melt
We'll use tomorrow to highlight individual instances and families that have seen their taxes cut

Subtle hint to President Obama...

You actually have to have legislation that cut taxes, you moron!

You haven't done anything, yet....just an empty suit full of empty rhetoric.

44 posted on 04/14/2009 9:41:23 PM PDT by NorCoGOP (Recession: friend loses his job. Depression: You lose your job. Recovery: Obama loses his job.)
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What tax cuts?

He RAISED taxes on 25% of the population within 10 days of being in office with the SCHIP bill.

Nice to know he's trying to counter us, though.
His countering of Rush only inflated the issue for more people to see.
Keep it up, oBUMa!

45 posted on 04/14/2009 9:44:40 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Satisfaction was my sin)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

When you post, go to “Highlights”. The second topic down says, “Breaking News”. Just click/check it.


46 posted on 04/14/2009 9:57:36 PM PDT by melt (Someday they'll wish their Jihad... Jihadn't.)
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To: melt

“We’ll use tomorrow to highlight individual instances and families that have seen their taxes cut,” he said. “Americans will see more money into their pockets as a direct result of the making work pay tax cut that the president both campaigned on and passed through Congress.”
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Now that’s some funny stuff. As if he doesn’t know what tomorrow is. What an complete IDIOT he is. He acts like a 5 year old. He cannot take any criticism whatsoever. suck it up zer0... it comes with the territory and it’s going to last as long as you are in the WH and long after. Especially when you have to finally show your birth certificate. The REAL one.


47 posted on 04/14/2009 9:58:53 PM PDT by mojitojoe ( Idiots elected a Marxist ideologue with narcissistic personality disorder & America is dying.)
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To: melt

BWAHAHAHA! Did you see his CYA speech today? He knows what’s coming.


48 posted on 04/14/2009 10:06:20 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: dila813
Idiots, Businesses don’t pay these increased taxes. They either go out of business laying people off or pass it on to 95% of Americans.

Yep.

Also, that $13/week should be saved to pay the every-increasing fees (read: taxes), such as auto registration, inspection, tobacco, alcohol, value-added taxes, etc.

49 posted on 04/14/2009 10:07:51 PM PDT by Zeppelin
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To: JoanneSD

He was watching CNN. He probably has no idea.


50 posted on 04/14/2009 10:09:57 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar (Atlas Shrugged Mode: ON)
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