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Obama: "I Will Raise Taxes"
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| May 8, 2008
| Amanda Carpenter
Posted on 05/08/2008 6:06:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: headstamp 2
Obama replied, You know, I think the definitions are always a little bit rough and said if youre making $100,000 a year or less, then youre pretty solidly middle class
On the other hand, if youre making more than $100,000 and certainly if youre making more than $200,000 or $250,000, youre doing pretty well.
Brilliant. Raise taxes on small business owners and entrepreneurs.
Marxist idiot.
Agreed. I guess he's just following his church's guidelines to Disavow the Pursuit of Middleclassness.
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posted on
05/09/2008 4:56:43 AM PDT
by
Girlene
To: rfp1234
Thank you for posting. - bill
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posted on
05/09/2008 4:56:49 AM PDT
by
bill1952
(I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
To: Maelstorm
>>What is a CEO in Obamas mind?
Let me help: a CEO is a person in charge. Therefore, EVERY person in Congress is in charge plus they all make more than $100K. Let’s start with a 100% tax on them first.
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posted on
05/09/2008 5:26:50 AM PDT
by
NTHockey
(Rules of engagement #1 - Take no prisoners))
To: bill1952
Ruth Ginsburg, late of the ACLU, is one that received his YES vote in the Senate to confirm.
Look, I dislike McCain as much as the next guy - but this is bogus.
The Ginsburg vote was taken back when the President's choice was almost always approved, as long as the applicant was qualified on paper. This was before the Dems started their eternal scorched-earth Judiciary hearings in the Senate. It seems like an eternity ago, I know.
You may hate Buzzy Ginsburg, but this is the way it is supposed to work. Bill Clinton won the election. She was qualified. He picked her. The way to not have her, was to win the Presidential election. McCain's vote to confirm her is the way it is supposed to work - the bloodbath should take place in the Presidential election, not in the Judiciary hearings.
You want to blame someone, blame me - I voted for Perot, and helped make the fiasco of the Clinton years possible.
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posted on
05/09/2008 5:34:39 AM PDT
by
horse_doc
(Visualize a world where a tactical nuke went off at Max Yasgur's farm in 1969.)
To: horse_doc
You want to blame someone, blame me - I voted for Perot, and helped make the fiasco of the Clinton years possible. Are you repenting and promising never to do it again?
To: Free ThinkerNY
This is the $100,000 question that no one, and I mean no one, in the MSM would have the nads to ask because he's screwed no matter how he answers.
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posted on
05/09/2008 5:39:00 AM PDT
by
RU88
(The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
To: horse_doc
The Pubbies were playing nice according to the traditional thought that the president gets to pick the judiciary that he wants, and the senate approves only on qualifications, not on ideology, because that’s what the presidential election was about.
The left, though, doesn’t play by “rules” or “traditions” when those rules don’t give them the results that they want. And they know that the only way they’ve gotten their ideology set into law is through the judiciary, so they were willing to do anything to keep control of that branch, even though they lost the presidential election twice.
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posted on
05/09/2008 5:40:11 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: headstamp 2
There’s a bell curve of incomes (and incomes don’t necessarily correlate with wealth, but that’s WAY over bambi’s head), and there’s a point on the leftward slope and one on the rightward slope, between which could be called the “middle”.
This middle changes as the curve moves, and the curve moves generally rightward, where everyone is making more money.
If you keep the guide lines in the same place, it looks like the gap between the rich and poor is getting bigger, when it really hasn’t changed, the income curve just moved.
Bambi isn’t interested in gov’t revenue, he’s interested in using the tax system for “fairness” - ie, punishing those that succeed.
Yes, he’s a Marxist.
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posted on
05/09/2008 5:44:38 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Williams
If McCain is elected you will get Roberts. You have great faith. (Faith being belief in the absence of evidence - or contradicting the evidence, in this case)
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posted on
05/09/2008 5:45:29 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. - Alexander Hamilton)
To: horse_doc
>Look, I dislike McCain as much as the next guy - but this is bogus.
No doc, it is called doing your due diligence and research and then looking at the actions of the man while in office. - take a pill.
> McCain's vote to confirm her is the way it is supposed to work
LOL! Then why have the fake vote at all?!?
Look, the way that McCain would have garnered my respect on this issue would have been for him to stand up in the Senate and say
“I will not vote for this lady to be seated on the bench, and these are my reasons!”
Like Jesse Helms did
Your concept is outright ... never mind. no disrespect intended
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posted on
05/09/2008 5:46:24 AM PDT
by
bill1952
(I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
To: TLI
Obama: “I Will Raise Taxes.”
TLI: You are toast.......
The former governor of Texas Ann Richards ran against George W. Bush on that platform of starting an income tax in Texas.
It doesn’t really work well. Although his platform is more a class warfare tax, it really makes everyone other than liberals uneasy.
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posted on
05/09/2008 5:51:36 AM PDT
by
Hang'emAll
(WE WILL NOT DISARM!!!)
To: Carry_Okie
My son makes $100k. The average house in Nassau County is $500k plus with taxes of $7k/yr. Obama wants even more of his money?
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posted on
05/09/2008 5:53:43 AM PDT
by
wtc911
("How you gonna get back down that hill?")
To: Free ThinkerNY
Yes, Obama will make sure there are less Americans “doing well”, these are the people who create jobs and hire people who become middle class.
With less people “doing well”, there will also be less jobs and less middle class, and more underclass dependent on Obama.
It’s communism.
Obama is the great threat to this nation in its existence.
To: Free ThinkerNY
if youre making $100,000 a year or less, then youre pretty solidly middle class This ass hat has no clue what is happening. The only hedge many of us so called "solidly" middle class folks have against high prices is our real estate investment. Obama says he wants to raise the long term capital gains tax to 28% almost doubling the existing tax. Meaning he is doubling the tax on the middle class if we try to outright sell our real estate investment. This goes for all other investments subject to long term capital gains tax, as well.
To: Free ThinkerNY
So much for the American dream. Dems are disgusting, and McCain is only a step behind them.
The only bright spot in this worst election year I have ever seen....after 2 years of dems controlling the Hose, Senate and the Presidency there will be a landslide for the Republicans.
To: 1035rep
In his own words, behold American human waste, Osama Bin Obama.
To: MartinStyles
I do not like McCain. I know people who flew with him. My Godfather was in his squadron and died on the Forrestall, he was sitting in his jet getting ready to be launched. I will vote for him though because Obama would be so much worse. My children would suffer because of Obama and I will not have that.
To: Free ThinkerNY
“youll pay roughly what you did in the 90s when they were doing fine.
We entered 2000 with a recession. We weren’t doing that well in the 1990s throughout the decade.
There was an internet stock bubble that did make some people money. Until they realized tulips like Pets.com and sock puppets weren’t worth anything.
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posted on
05/09/2008 7:32:53 AM PDT
by
weegee
("I didn't kill innocent people." - Bill Ayers, Weatherman. Terrorist. Obama's comrade.)
To: IamConservative
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posted on
05/09/2008 7:34:00 AM PDT
by
weegee
("I didn't kill innocent people." - Bill Ayers, Weatherman. Terrorist. Obama's comrade.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Obama: "I Will Raise Taxes" Lambchops, you ain't going to be President. Sit down and STFU!
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posted on
05/09/2008 7:45:20 AM PDT
by
avacado
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