Posted on 06/30/2011 9:50:20 AM PDT by Stoutcat
Mention has been made about President Obama’s casting of corporate jet owners as villains in yesterday’s press conference. Clearly, he feels strongly about it, as he called them out specifically half a dozen times.
This vilification is especially rich, coming as it does from the man who regularly rides what is likely considered to be the most expensive “corporate jet” in the world. And of course we shouldn’t forget that the “tax breaks” for those dastardly corporate jet owners came right from his own Stimulus plan which failed so spectacularly…
But let’s take a look at the “corporate jet” part of the equation. Haven’t we seen something like this before? Why yes, we have. Back in 1990, Congress (controlled by the Democrats) was so outraged at the luxury yacht owners (see? Millionaires, billionaires, corporate jet owners, yacht owners: all bad!) that it passed a bill mandating a 10% tax on all yachts costing more than $100,000. And believe me, that pretty much means all yachts...
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I believe long suffering Michael Moore owns a Hawker 400.
I would have figured him to be more of a C130 man myself.
Not sure he could fit in either one with his ego.
Heck...Obama uses our plane just for flyovers/photo op stunts.
and that’s exactly the problem.
...0bama’s casting of corporate jet owners as villains...
...we shouldn’t forget that the “tax breaks” for those dastardly corporate jet owners came right from his own Stimulus plan...
you can’t rely on 0bama. yesterday you were golden...today you’re vilified.
Didn’t the Dims in Congress attack the automobile CEOs when they flew corporate jets to DC for bailout hearings?
Barry must think of the persons designing, building, marketing, and selling these planes as evil as well? The industries supporting - raw materials, production, etc. must be similarly misguided souls?
Obama is thinking of those suffering people who have to work on those mean corporate jet owners’ jets!
They’d be much happier laying around the house collecting unemployment...
It was probably a shakedown move - dems are liars and they have NO principle beyond greed.
Class warfare at its finest, Obama-style!
Well at least the corporate jet owners are paying for them. We are paying for Obama’s jet, which is the biggest of them all, and Pelosi still hasn’t fessed up to how much she spent. These folks don’t have corporate jets because they have military jets.
Priceless, indeed!
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