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Liberal group takes credit for audience member asking Obama to raise taxes By Alicia M. Cohn - 09/28/11 09:32 AM ET Patriotic Millionaires for Fiscal Strength, a campaign by the progressive group The Agenda Project, on Tuesday took credit for a member of the audience who asked President Obama to raise his taxes during a town hall meeting in Silicon Valley on Monday. “Will you please raise my taxes?” the man said. “It kills me to see Congress not supporting the expiration of the tax cuts that have been benefiting so many of us for so long." It was a...

President Obama’s proposed “Buffett Rule”-- which would force the wealthiest Americans to pay higher taxes to help cut the nation’s deficits -- has met its Republican match. Republican lawmakers have introduced their own “Buffett Rule” that would allow billionaire investors like Warren Buffett who say they’re not paying enough taxes to voluntarily give more money to the federal government. Under the legislation, authored by Sen. John Thune of South Dakota and Rep. John Scalise of Louisiana, taxpayers can donate at least a $1 to the Treasury fund for deficit reduction when they file their federal income tax returns starting next...

Former early Google employee Doug Edwards had a message for President Obama today: Raise my taxes, please. Edwards, who was employee #59 at Google and is now not working, asked the question in Mountain View, Calif. at the Town Hall event today Obama held with LinkedIn to discuss job creation. “My question is would you please raise my taxes?” Edwards said from the audience during the question and answer period. “I would like very much for our country to continue to invest in things like Pell grants, infrastructure, job training–programs that made it possible for me to get to where...

Wealthy Man Asks Obama ‘Please Raise My Taxes’ President Obama took a break from his three-day campaign fundraising tour today to pitch his $447 billion jobs plan and defend his proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy to reduce the deficit, arguing that everyone is going to have to do their “fair share.” At the “Putting America Back to Work” LinkedIn town hall in Mountain View, Calif., Obama came face-to-face with his deficit-reduction proposal. “Would you please raise my taxes?” asked Doug Edwards a former director of consumer marketing and branding at Google, who described himself as “unemployed by choice.”...

Wow, what a shock. Doug Edwards, formerly an executive with Google. And now, as he says, retired, by choice. Guy seems to be willing to pay a lot of money to get his taxes raised. $10k to the Ohio Demo Partry in 2010 $7.5k to John Kerry in 2004 $500 to the DNC Services Corp in 2004 $2.3k to Michael Arcuri in 2007 $2.1k to Bob Casey in 2006 $250 to Hillary Clinton in 2007 $1k to John Courage in 2006 $5k to the DCCC in 2006 $700 to Kay Hagan in 2008 $1k to Ron Klein in 2006 $2,300...

IMHO....Totally planted and staged Question.

“Would you please raise my taxes?” said the man, who said he had “worked for a small startup down the street here” and had chosen to be unemployed. Techies on Twitter said that balding man with glasses is Doug Edwards, Google’s former marketing executive and author of “I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59.” Obama called on Edwards almost serendipitously — the president was prompted by the moderator, who had been choosing the questioners, to pick someone in the audience. After he said he was put “on the spot,” Obama called on “the man in the glasses.”