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URGENT: White House Confirms Obama Planning Huge New Executive Order
Conservative Tribune in Defense of Western Civilization ^ | March 14, 2015 | Staff

Posted on 03/14/2015 12:03:25 PM PDT by lbryce

Here we go again. White House press secretary Josh Earnest has officially confirmed that President Barack Obama plans to implement yet another executive order. This one is slated to send tax rates skyrocketing through the roof!

The hoopla started last Friday, when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders submitted a letter to the White House that asked the president to nullify six currently active corporate tax breaks. Closing these tax breaks would raise $100 billion in a decade, but also cost us innumerable jobs.

When questioned about this letter by Ed Henry, senior White House correspondent with Fox News, Earnest first tried to dodge the question by saying that “the president’s ability to use executive authority to move the country in the right direction” is always a possibility.

This statement signifies that the White House views a potential tax increase in a positive light. Ed Henry rebutted it by bluntly asking, “Would the president raise taxes by executive action?”

(Excerpt) Read more at conservativetribune.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: berniesanders; corporatetax; executiveorder; joshearnest; obama; operationdestroyusa; taxes; whpresser
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To: lbryce

after a while, even the country club republicans will end up losing their polyester suits to obama. boo ****** hoo.


21 posted on 03/14/2015 12:17:05 PM PDT by SteveH
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To: lbryce
Blatantly Unconstitutional!
22 posted on 03/14/2015 12:18:52 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: lbryce
Earnest first tried to dodge the question by saying that “the president’s ability to use executive authority to move the country in the right direction” is always a possibility.

Correction...".....in the left direction...."

23 posted on 03/14/2015 12:18:57 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: lbryce

It’s okay, with unemployment as low as it is now we can afford to lose a few jbs. We all know it won’t affect the unemployment rate.


24 posted on 03/14/2015 12:19:09 PM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: Diogenesis

How wonderful it would be if you were wrong. But, you are not. Sad.


25 posted on 03/14/2015 12:19:13 PM PDT by Rodentking (There is no God but Yahweh and Moses is his prophet - http://www.airpower.blogspot.com/)
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To: lbryce

Executive Order + Weak Congress = Dictator


26 posted on 03/14/2015 12:19:21 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Still Thinking

“He can’t change them.”

Sanders says he has found some regulations, not laws, that can be changed. I don’t believe him but that’s his pitch.


27 posted on 03/14/2015 12:20:47 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: lbryce; All
Thank you for referencing that article lbryce. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

”… senior White House correspondent with Fox News, .."

We’re probably never going to hear Obama guard dog Fx News mention that the Supreme Court has clarified limits on Congress’s power to appropriate taxes. More specifically, the Court had indicated that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limted powers.

“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

Thomas Jefferson had reflected on this issue.

"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.

The best step towards putting a stop to constitutionally indefensible federal taxes, imo, is to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.

28 posted on 03/14/2015 12:22:16 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: lbryce

Why doesn’t the House and Senate just issue contradictive “Legislative Orders” and we can choose which we want to follow.


29 posted on 03/14/2015 12:22:47 PM PDT by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarca only ones we can gesm or criticism...or do.)
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To: Diogenesis
"Obola should just disband the ceremonial Congress. It would save America a lot of money. They are proven useless, utter liars, and 110% self-serving."

Well, he could just declare them in recess; he has done it before. However, why bother, they serve as an useful sideshow to distract the masses. Congress will not save the US. The people and the states could, but there needs to be a mass movement to throw off the yoke of the oppressor.

30 posted on 03/14/2015 12:24:28 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: lbryce

Aw, Geez. Another Executive Fatwa.
It could slow down commerce. But like Uncle Warren, these entities will simply not pay until they are forced. it could take years, but in the meanwhile......


31 posted on 03/14/2015 12:26:27 PM PDT by griswold3 (Just another unlicensed nonconformist in am dangerous Liberal world.)
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To: lbryce

Obama is simply overwhelming the system with his corruption and treason.


32 posted on 03/14/2015 12:26:30 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: lbryce

Another day, another EO and another day of the GOP doing nothing.


33 posted on 03/14/2015 12:27:29 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Starstruck
Why doesn’t the House and Senate just issue contradictive “Legislative Orders” and we can choose which we want to follow.

The Executive controls the jackboots with the guns. Government has become rule by threat of violence.

34 posted on 03/14/2015 12:27:32 PM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: Red in Blue PA
Blatantly Unconstitutional!

Then he will do it for sure, and he will get away with it, as he always does.

35 posted on 03/14/2015 12:28:00 PM PDT by Mark17 (Calvary's love has never faltered, all it's wonder still remains. Souls still take eternal passage)
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To: GraceG

What Congress?


36 posted on 03/14/2015 12:28:05 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (She comes out of the sun in a silk dress running like a watercolor in the rain)
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To: lbryce

No taxation without representation is the hill that our forefathers died on. We cannot retreat from that. If Obama tries to unilaterally raise taxes he is traitor and a usurper and must be impeached.


37 posted on 03/14/2015 12:29:09 PM PDT by dschapin
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To: lbryce

Raise ‘em all you want, punk, I ain’t paying you sh!t.


38 posted on 03/14/2015 12:29:54 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: PapaNew

39 posted on 03/14/2015 12:30:32 PM PDT by Slyfox (I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever)
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To: lbryce

I am not sure that the Press guy not answering a direct question is not exactly spilling the beans.

Obama might try this. I would not put it past him. But I do not think its imminent.


40 posted on 03/14/2015 12:30:35 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (When you are inclined to to buy storage boxes, but contractor bags instead.)
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