Posted on 09/13/2009 7:56:42 PM PDT by Josh Painter
From CNSNews.com:
Despite a still-lagging U.S. economy and rising unemployment rate, House Democrats announced late Friday that they will seek a massive increase in federal income taxes to help pay for the national health-care reform proposal that President Obama is urging Congress to enact this summer.Not that it's any surprise to conservatives and libertarians that Democrats want to raise taxes. But Sarah Palin, while campaigning as the 2008 Republican Party vice presidential candidate, often warned that if the Dems got control of the federal government, they would make it bigger and raise taxes. Here's an excerpt from a news item from October 27 last year:House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y.)revealed late Friday afternoon that House Democrats will seek to increase income taxes by $540 billion.
The move, which had been discussed earlier in the week by House Democrats, broke in an Associated Press story that was published at 4:14 PM Eastern Daylight time on Friday afternoon (or 8:14 PM Greenwich Mean Time). . [...]
Releasing news late on a Friday afternoon is a traditional public relations tactic used by politicians seeking to limit the news coverage of an item they nonetheless need to release.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says Democrats would raise taxes and "punish hard work."So essentially the Democrats want to raise taxes on Americans who don't want them raised to finance an ObamaCare scheme that Americans also do not want.[...]
Palin told a cheering crowd in Leesburg, outside Washington, that Obama would raise taxes while she and Republican hopeful John McCain would cut them and freeze government spending. She also warned that voting for Democrats in the Nov. 4 election could give the party too much power.
Another excerpt, this one from an August 2 report:
During his presidential campaign, Obama repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime." But the simple reality remains that his ambitious overhaul of how Americans receive health care -- promised without increasing the federal deficit -- must be paid for.Everything former Governor Palin warned about during the 2008 campaign if the other side won has come to pass or is just around the corner. How's all that hope and change working out for you, independents? Buyer's remorse set in yet?
- JP
The list, ping
"Just because I don't pay my taxes that doesn't mean I can't raise yours! It's good to be the king!"
DC = Dealer Crooks
That finger's made for zotting, and that's just what it'll do...one of these days that finger's gonna zot all over you
Everything Palin warned us about during the campaign is coming true.
"This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word "victory" except when he's talking about his own campaign.
But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed ... when the roar of the crowd fades away ... when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot — what exactly is our opponent's plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he's done turning back the waters and healing the planet?
The answer is to make government bigger ... take more of your money ... give you more orders from Washington ... and to reduce the strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy ... our opponent is against producing it.
Victory in Iraq is finally in sight ... he wants to forfeit.
Terrorist states are seeking nuclear weapons without delay ... he wants to meet them without preconditions.
Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America ... he's worried that someone won't read them their rights? Government is too big ... he wants to grow it.
Congress spends too much ... he promises more.
Taxes are too high ... he wants to raise them. His tax increases are the fine print in his economic plan, and let me be specific.
The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes ... raise payroll taxes ... raise investment income taxes ... raise the death tax ... raise business taxes ... and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."
Change your withholding to exempt and don’t pay ‘em in April.
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