Posted on 05/08/2008 6:06:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
By Amanda Carpenter
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama flatly promised to raise taxes in a television interview Thursday afternoon.
I will raise CEO taxes, Obama told CNNs Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room.
If youre a CEO in this country youll probably pay more taxes, Obama said. Obama speculated his CEO tax rates wont be prohibitively high, youll pay roughly what you did in the 90s when they were doing fine.
Obama also said he would eliminate the Bush tax cuts and install what he called a middle class tax cut.
Blitzer asked Obama to define middle class.
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.
The CNN interview was the first one Obama has held since Tuesdays primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. In it, the Illinois senator also discussed his judicial philosophy. Obama, who has delivered constitutional lectures at University of Chicago Law School, said he thought Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a very sensible judge. He also hinted he would place special emphasis on civil rights protections when appointing Supreme Court judges if elected President.
Weve got to make sure civil liberties are protected, Obama said. Because oftentimes there are pressures placed on politicians to want to set civil liberties aside, especially at a time when weve had terrorist attacks. Making sure we maintain our separation of powers so that we dont have a president who is takes over more and more power, I think those are all criteria by which Id judge whether or not this is a good appointee.
You know the harder I’ve had to work for my money to get ahead the more I’ve come to resent the ideas of men like Obama. I’ve never been compelled by the ideas of the left when it comes to income redistribution. A friend today talking at lunch summarized my feelings pretty well. He and his wife are immigrants from India. They came to the US poor, they worked hard and now several years later they make a good income. He said said that the more that the government has stepped in the middle of when it comes to charity the more it has alienated people from one another. I believe he was right. Do we really need a government that makes it easy for anyone to stay employed at a department store or fast food restaurant?
What we need is a government that respects the sovereignty of the individuals who earn money and their rights to use it and their property as they see fit but interestingly enough consent seems to matter only when it comes to sex in the left’s world view. You can’t be trusted with your money or your property or even your opinion because they know better than you and are kinder than you. They talk about the right bringing up God and mixing it with politics but the difference is that THEY think they seem to think they are God. It is time to send them a message that they are not.
socialism is freedom.
cowardice is a virtue.
not.
Didn’t Mondale make the same campaign promise in 1984?
Not when he has a dem majority.
Don’t vote for McCain at everyones’ peril.
Then again, the idiots on here that refuse to, are just ASKING for this nightmare. Insisting on it.
I will raise CEO taxes, Obama told CNNs Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room.
But, he’s a Democrat. What if he’s lying???????”
First, he doesn’t know what a CEO is or does. He has never managed ANYTHING. Everybody got it, ANYTHING!
Anybody who thinks you could tax something into prosperity is a moron.
getting old ? stevens and ginzy have been old for the last 30 years
Question:
Would McCain appoint or vote for such a raving left wing lunatic?
“This enemy cannot become president!!!!!”
Hell, he shouldn’t even be a senator, but he is. It is all part of the national death wish.
I'm sure as a communist she did seem sensible to him. We cannot afford to let this man become President. Whatever we have to do. Whatever it takes. At all costs. He must be stopped!
Hussein can go to hell, these commies are getting no more of my money.
Socialism is their god. These people are truly evil.
Obama, a big-shot federal spenderThe people need to reconnect with the Founder's division of federal and state government powers. The people then need to wise up to the major problem that the federal government is not operating within the restraints of the federal Constitution, particularly where constitutionally unauthorized federal spending is concerned.
The bottom line is that the people need to send big-shot federal spenders like Obama home as opposed to trying to send people like him to the Oval Office. The people then need to get in the faces of the feds, demanding a stop to constitutionally unauthorized federal spending while appropriately lowering federal taxes.
No McCain wouldnt appoint her. Period.
I think he has said he will cut all research on future weapons systems, etc.
Link?
You CANNOT be serious can you?
Then by all means please note the question on post 49
An I won't pay them. I gonna be in Kenya, sippin coconut punch and layin on da beach at Kikambala. Obama, you elected president = me leaving for Kenya!
Obama, why don't you go and live in Kenya, you have citizenship there!
Then I can stay home and not worry about taxes.
He is a Fool
It is all part of the national death wish.
Unbelievable! Have most of the people in this country been that stupidified? (If that is a word)
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