Posted on 01/20/2015 6:49:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Trying to bury bad news by releasing it over a holiday weekend is one of the oldest tricks in the book. What makes it funny in the case of President Obama is that the bad news isn’t some inspector general’s report or inside-the-Beltway scandal, but the details of the $320 billion tax increase that Mr. Obama himself plans to ask for in his State of the Union address this week.
The White House fact sheet on the tax increase was released at 8 p.m. on Saturday night of the three-day Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend. Compare it with how Mr. Obama released another aspect of his State of the Union policy package, free community college. That initiative got a weekday presidential speech. The tax increase to pay for it got the Saturday night fact-sheet treatment.
It’s no wonder that this White House treats its own tax policy as if it is some sort of embarrassment. It is. Some day, when historians look back on the Obama administration, the Saturday night tax-grab will loom right up there with Benghazi, the broken ObamaCare web site, and the je suis Charlie no-show as one of this presidency’s lowest moments.
Low, but telling, because it shows how this administration approaches tax policy not from the point of view of raising the revenues necessary to run the government, and not from the view of creating the maximum incentives for growth and innovation, but rather as a kind of zero-sum, redistributionist means of political warfare. It is tax policy as power and punishment, tax policy as vengeance.
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Have any of Obola’s budgets ever gotten a single vote?
Nancy says: ‘just say no’.
The GOP should use the one of LIttle Richards famous comments when someone would talked to him, and that was “SHUT UP”.
It was a holiday weekend?
Must’ve missed it
RE: Have any of Obola’s budgets ever gotten a single vote?
I remember the Democrat controlled Senate voting 97-0 ( That’s a big fat egg ) against his proposed budget in 2011.
SEE HERE:
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/163347-senate-votes-unanimously-against-obama-budget
The Senate also voted 99-0 against his budget in 2012.
SEE HERE:
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/227857-senate-rejects-obama-budget-in-99-0-vote
It will be to the shame of a now Republican controlled Congress if any one Republican votes for Obama’s budget now.
No, and neither he nor the Democrats care. Why? Because they got a huge one-shot increase through Porkulus, and under the Baseline Budgeting policy, it became permanent.
That is, government by continuing resolutions and a guaranteed increase of slightly over inflation gave us a Federal budget that swelled from a traditional 20 or 21% (it got higher under GWB, a generous-with-our-money guy) to its present 24 to 25 percent.
Obama’s going to give a campaign speech... A State of the Union Speech with all the crap happening in the ME would require honesty. And that ain’t gonna happen.
“That is, government by continuing resolutions and a guaranteed increase of slightly over inflation gave us a Federal budget that swelled from a traditional 20 or 21% (it got higher under GWB, a generous-with-our-money guy) to its present 24 to 25 percent.”
The Republicans House has been a willing accomplice in approving the continuing resolutions and continuing the practice of inflating the baseline every year. After 8 years of Bush deficits, and four years of a rubber stamp Republican House, we cannot blame irresponsible spending on the Democrats. Republicans are equal partners in the fiscal irresponsibility game. The most recent Cromnibus budget bill is proof the Republicans don’t care.
Blam is dreaming about that tax increase.
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