[Da Coyote]

The Obamaloon’s math instructor also did the numbering on his out of order “birth photoshop”...er...”birth faketificate(s)”

[xzins]

"The math is the math. You can't lower (tax) rates and raise revenues."

Can't believe Obama has even the slightest education sometimes.

You can't lower airline ticket prices and increase your profit...right? /s

[varina davis]

Basic math is above Obama’s pay grade — but cooking the books is right up his alley.

[Truth29]

Obama understands math well enough to be working overtime to make sure that the upcoming Presidential election is rigged with a combination of ID fraud, illegals voting, the dead voting and the prevention of electoral safeguards that might interfere with his reelection.

[cuban leaf]

Obama is good comic relief. Thanks for this.

[Balata]

It’s too bad Obama’s Stupidity doesn’t hurt him more than it’s going to hurt us.

[sickoflibs]

These arguments have been cited many times however Republicans trapped themselves politically just recently when they insisted that the FICA tax cut extensions ‘must be paid for’ with spending cuts after insisting that the Bush tax cut extensions do not have to 'be paid for' because they are revenue neutral or positive, as the above argues. The fact that Bush left office in January 2009 with tax revenues plumeting (and that is when SS first started running deficits) makes it even more difficult to sell the argument, a good rule is to have revenues still increasing at the end of a Republican POTUS term and this will be much easier.

POTUS candidates always propose tax reform plans that using static CBO analysis will collect less revenue than existing law. However to get it through the Senate with a simple majority vote (using budget reconcilation) it must be revenue neutral or positive when scored by the CBO or it will expire after ~ 10 years as did the GWB tax cuts.

[hosepipe]

Dealing with this prez is like a Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny Cartoon..
-OR-
Wiley E.Coyote vs. BEEP.beep the Bird brain

And America watches and democrats and RINOs laugh..
After all they elected this morooon..

America elected Daffy Duck and packed Congress with Elmer Fudd’s..
AND is getting ready to run Droopy(Willard) against Daffy..

American politics has become Film Noir...

[G Larry]

It is NOT lack of understanding economic realities, that drive liberals.

It is their desire for power and control, which is accomplished by lying to the masses and manipulating them.

[sportutegrl]

Obama also said that our employers would save 3000% (three thousand percent) on health insurance if Obamacare passed.

[Bernard Marx]

"All Presidents that had lowered tax rates that stimulated more economic activity"

And that's the rub. Obama is a Communist. He is adamantly opposed to free enterprise and private economic growth.

He believes with religious fervor that the State, though virtually unlimited power to tax, should redistribute wealth in what he considers a "fair" way.

Of course that mindset shows no understanding of what really powers successful economies. But it isn't his math that's faulty; it's his Marxist ideology.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Obama and dems don't care about raising revenues, it all about “purposes of fairness”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4iy2OfScQE

[aruanan]

And remember that some time close to the 2008 election, Obama was opining about capital gains taxes being too low. The interviewer told him that lower rates have resulted in increased revenue to the federal government. Obama replied that his wanting to raise the rates wasn’t a matter of revenue but fairness. Either we have a mentally-deficient person as president or we have our own economic suicide bomber as president or, like the way Muslim terrorist leaders take advantage of mental defectives as a recruit pool for suicide bombers, we have a mentally-deficient economic suicide bomber as president. I’m leaning toward the third choice.

[blueunicorn6]

Obama isn’t smart enough to run a snocone stand.

[loveliberty2]

Thanks, Kaslin! Massgopguy says: ". . . if higher cigarette taxes discourage smoking. What behavior do higher Income Taxes discourage?"

For decades now, and especially with a committed "redistributionist" as their leader, the so-called "progressive" Democrats have refused to acknowledge the simple logic of massgopguy's question.

They, in their overwhelming desire for accumulation of power of government over people, acknowledge the taxing power as useful for restraining motivation toward what they deem to be undesirable behavior.

On the other hand, they deny the certain fact that "taking," or taxing productive citizens also discourages and restrains motivation.

Democrats, under Obama, now have endangered the liberty of millions yet unborn with their illogical arguments on behalf of "taking" and "redistributing" the earnings of hard-working Americans. They claim they are "taking care" of those who elected them. Their "taking care" amounts to enslaving every citizen, born and unborn, for generations to come.

Their claims would fall on deaf ears, if most citizens understood their Constitution's limits on the powers of government. Here what some of the Founders said about the policies of today's "progressive" Democrats.

"To preserve [the] independence [of the people,] we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our callings and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses, and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes, have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account, but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39

"I deem [this one of] the essential principles of our government and consequently [one] which ought to shape its administration:... The honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith." --Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural, 1801. ME 3:322

"I sincerely believe... that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23

"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40

"Is it now high time for the people of this country to explicitly declare whether they will be free men or slaves. It is an important question which ought to be decided. It concerns more than anything in this life. The salvation of our souls is interested in this event. For wherever tyranny is established, immorality of every kind comes in like a torrent, it is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice.” - Samuel Adams

And:

“The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.” - Samuel Adams

[voicereason]

Bump for later reading.