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Obama: Not Raising Taxes is a Form of Government Spending
CNS News ^ | February 13, 2012 | Fred Lucas

Posted on 02/14/2012 11:21:09 AM PST by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

Announcing his budget plans for fiscal year 2013 in an address at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale, Va., President Barack Obama characterized the current income tax rates--signed into law by President Bush a decade ago--as a form of government spending.

Essentially, the president said that the federal government "spends" when it does not raise taxes.

“Right now, we’re scheduled to spend more than $1 trillion more on what was intended to be a temporary tax cut for the wealthiest two percent of Americans,” Obama said. “We’ve already spent about that much. Now we’re expected to spend another $1 trillion. Keep in mind, a quarter of all millionaires pay lower tax rates than millions of middle class households. You’ve heard me say it: Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: budget; governmentspending; newspeak; obama; obamabudget; taxes
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1 posted on 02/14/2012 11:21:15 AM PST by SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, ...


2 posted on 02/14/2012 11:23:50 AM PST by Red Badger (If you are unemployed long enough, you are no longer unemployed.)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

In Obama’s hateful worldview, all money earned by private citizens belongs to the government, and any that they let us keep is an expense.

The left believes that the people are a cost to the government, when the truth is the opposite. Government is a cost to the people.


3 posted on 02/14/2012 11:25:56 AM PST by Maceman (Liberals' only problem with American slavery is that the slaves were privately owned.)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny
NEVERINTERRUPT
4 posted on 02/14/2012 11:27:44 AM PST by FrankR (You are only enslaved to the extent of the entitlements you receive.)
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To: Maceman

The man is a nut case as are all marxists/liberal/progressive/communists.


5 posted on 02/14/2012 11:28:25 AM PST by Bitsy
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To: Maceman

History tells of the result when the ‘producers’ are attacked. It should be known that at the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.

‘Abd-ar-Rah.mân Abû Zayd ibn Khaldûn (1332-1406), The Muqaddimah, An Introduction to History, Franz Rosenthal translation, abridged and edited by N.J. Dawood, Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, 1967, p.230, quoted by Ronald Reagan


6 posted on 02/14/2012 11:29:36 AM PST by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

With “logic” such as this, is there any wonder why the Cretin-in-Chief has hidden all of his “academic” records?


7 posted on 02/14/2012 11:33:22 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Bitsy

Don’t dare “dismiss” them.

They are, indeed, “nutcases”, but they are DANGEROUS nutcases.

They would think nothing of reducing the world’s population down to 25% of what it is now, if those remaining were all compliant with the communist agenda.

They have as their end goal a “heaven on earth”, as do all humanist religions, and such a goal is worth any means necessary to achieve it.

Read:
You can still trust the communists to be communists
http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Still-Trust-Communists/dp/0936163208


8 posted on 02/14/2012 11:35:06 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Bitsy

The man is a nut case as are all marxists/liberal/progressive/communists.


Evil is their master.


9 posted on 02/14/2012 11:46:48 AM PST by unkus (Silence Is Consent)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

Obummer never took economcs 101:

to spend = waste
to save = thrift

Ergo
Obummer is a spendthrift.


10 posted on 02/14/2012 11:54:32 AM PST by bunkerhill7 (Obummer is mentally poverty-stricken, a psychotic disease. = Who knew??)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

You gotta hand it to the president. He spins a good tale. I sure wish the government would stop spending so much of its money on the rich...


11 posted on 02/14/2012 12:03:04 PM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

Every single thing that man says is a goddamned lie.


12 posted on 02/14/2012 12:06:26 PM PST by andy58-in-nh (America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

I’ll be glad when we can vote this freak show outta there.


13 posted on 02/14/2012 12:18:59 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who will subsidize BIG government when "the rich" are all taxed out?)
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

Sure Barry, whatever you say...


14 posted on 02/14/2012 12:25:10 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Stop feeding the beast; spend money only with those who support traditional American values.)
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To: MrB
You can still trust the communists to be communists

I don't dare dismiss them as dangerous for one minute. There is no such thing as Utopia or paradise on earth. Man is not capable of achieving or maintaining such a place, especially egotistical, godless, arrogant elites. I detest what they are doing to America, our values and our constitution. Years ago people were talking about a one world government and others laughed. It is not so far away if we don't do our preparation and defense of our country.

15 posted on 02/14/2012 12:27:59 PM PST by Bitsy
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

No the federal government “spends” when it spends. Maybe it should spend less, Hussein.


16 posted on 02/14/2012 12:44:24 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Bitsy

The one world government WILL happen, you know.
I just hope my eschatology is correct and I and my family won’t be around for it.

As for the paradise on earth, that extends naturally from the “pernicious lie” that every liberal/leftist assumes -

man is basically good, and perfectable given the right environment.

You can’t convince a leftist to NOT pursue heaven on earth without first destroying this assumption.


17 posted on 02/14/2012 12:46:36 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: MrB

I just hope my eschatology is correct and I and my family won’t be around for it.

Me too! But, I’m a child of the 50’s - a great time to be alive - a simpler time and in just a short time all things are changed a mere 60 or so years. I am amazed at how short a time it took. Star Jones was on the radio this AM and a black republican man called in and asked how he culd convince his brothers and sisters that they were living on the democratic plantation. Star said she didn’t even try to convince her family - it was no use. It amazes me that they scoff at Jesus Christ but they will sniff the white line to the utopia the humanists promise.


18 posted on 02/14/2012 1:20:32 PM PST by Bitsy
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

This is so weird...it’s like living in an alternate reality.


19 posted on 02/14/2012 1:23:07 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: SaveOurRepublicFromTyranny

The more lawless this guy gets, the more I despise the Republicans.


20 posted on 02/14/2012 1:31:57 PM PST by papertyger
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