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Obama: "I Will Raise Taxes"
townhall.com ^ | May 8, 2008 | Amanda Carpenter

Posted on 05/08/2008 6:06:06 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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To: Argus

The problem is our taxes have already been raised because of the Bush Administration’s embrace of the weak dollar.

If the next president is able to reduce the deficit, that will strengthen our dollar. Causing the price of Gas to drop.


181 posted on 05/09/2008 7:48:31 AM PDT by Philly Nomad
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To: bill1952

Just curious here: what do you think happened to Ruth's other tube sock?

182 posted on 05/09/2008 7:48:53 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Politicians cannot buy votes that are not for sale.)
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To: andy58-in-nh

LOL! Thanks for the chuckle - bill


183 posted on 05/09/2008 7:51:07 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: Argus

The other thing he’s not mentioning is that figure is PER HOUSEHOLD, not per salary. Think about that for a minute. Taxes aren’t computed per salary, they are computed per household, so he’s talking a per household figure. How many households do you know that make $100K that are “wealthy”?


184 posted on 05/09/2008 8:04:41 AM PDT by Hoffer Rand (0bambi: the audacity of hype)
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To: Norman Bates

> and most of it is not getting posted by McCain supporters.

That one was.


185 posted on 05/09/2008 8:21:56 AM PDT by bill1952 (I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Will someone PLEASE smack this fool with a Laffer Curve?


186 posted on 05/09/2008 8:31:03 AM PDT by Bobarian (Green: It's the new Red.)
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To: muawiyah
Guess these wealthy Democrats can't stand new competition so they'll use the power of the state to tax to destroy those right behind them.

That has ALWAYS been the case since estate taxes were introduced.

187 posted on 05/09/2008 8:45:02 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (Party ahead of principles; eventually you'll be selling out anything to anyone for the right price.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
And to reiterate my tagline,

"We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." - Ahmed Yousef, Hamas PM advisor"

188 posted on 05/09/2008 8:59:41 AM PDT by OB1kNOb ("We like Mr. Obama and we hope he will win the election." - Ahmed Yousef, Hamas PM advisor)
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Lets look at the democRAT Presidential candidate of CHANGE/HOPE:.

He "hopes" no one notices when he quotes anti-white lines from movies while speaking to mostly black audiences.

He "hopes" no one notices when he uses gangsta rap gestures which reference misogynistic lyrics..

He "hopes" no one notices when he says he took no DC lobbyist money he didn't include Nadhmi Auchi or George Soros..

He "hopes" no one notices that he attended Rev Wright's Church for 20 years and didn't hear a word.

He "hopes" no one ask him any questions about Most Rev Wright or Black Liberation Theology.

He "hopes" no one ask him any questions about who he will through under the bus next.

He "hopes" no one notices that he is completely comfortable hanging out with America hating bigots..

He "hopes" no one notices that his political career shows very little if any accomplishments that he can call his own..

He "hopes" that he can continue to run a gutter/negative attack campaign against Hillary and no one will notice. Audacity, baby!

189 posted on 05/09/2008 9:42:02 AM PDT by geo40xyz (McCain, Obama or Hillarybeast possibility of 4 Supreme Court Justices, Gore @UN. The WINNER is?)
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To: Centurion2000
Alas, estate taxes are a drop in the bucket compared to what the income tax can do.

BTW, I'm very much in favor of abolishing the estate taxes, severely limiting trusts that survive beyond the death of the founder, etc.

Instead I propose that for those with "immense wealth" ~ say $1 billion or more, that upon death their estates be distributed among their 500 closest blood relatives.

Modern DNA tests should make this quite feasible to determine.

190 posted on 05/09/2008 9:54:32 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: shortstop

Yes, all those racist quotes are in Obama’s books:

http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama

http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html


191 posted on 05/09/2008 10:05:20 AM PDT by cyberella
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To: shortstop

Yes, all those racist quotes are in Obama’s books:

http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama

http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html


192 posted on 05/09/2008 10:05:27 AM PDT by cyberella
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To: goldstategop

Still, though Oprah’s Obama understands that Mr. Average American dislikes CEOs and big business in general, particularly such outfits as Exxon-Mobil. The “common man” does not understant that businesses merely collect taxes, not pay them from their own resources.


193 posted on 05/09/2008 10:37:18 AM PDT by Theodore R. ( Cowardice is still forever!)
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To: All

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NOT ONLY ARE THE RACIST COMMENTS LISTED PREVIOUSLY IN OBAMA’S BOOKS- BUT HE ALSO TELLS US PLAINLY OF HIS LOVE AND ADMIRATION FOR ISLAM:

Quote from Barack Obama’s book, Dreams Of My Father:
“THE PERSON WHO MADE ME PROUDEST OF ALL, THOUGH, WAS MY [half brother], ROY..HE CONVERTED TO ISLAM”.

From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “IN INDONESIA, I SPEND TWO YEARS AT A MUSLIM SCHOOL” “..I STUDIED THE KORAN..”

From ‘Audacity of Hope: “LOLO (Obama’s step father) FOLLOWED ISLAM....”I LOOKED TO LOLO FOR GUIDANCE”.

From ‘The Audacity Of Hope, “I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS OF WAR SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION..”

From The Audacity Of Hope, “WE ARE NO LONGER JUST A CHRISTIAN NATION, we are also a Jewish nation, a MUSLIM NATION, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers.”

HATRED OF WHITES:
From Dreams of My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”. Barack Hussein Obama

From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure, even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race (WHITE) would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.” Barack Hussein Obama

From Dreams Of My Father: “That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, BLAMING “WHITE PEOPLE — some CRUEL, some IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.” Barack Hussein Obama

From ‘Dreams Of My Father’, “There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your LOYALTY TO THE BLACK MASSES, TO STRIKE OUT and name names” Barack Hussein Obama

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS!!
A WHITE CANDIDATE WOULD HAVE BEEN CRUCIFIED FOR MAKING SUCH STATEMENTS!!!
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http://www.examiner.com/a-534540~Can_a_past_of_Islam_change_the_path_to_president_for_Obama_.html?cid=dc-article-obama

http://www.examiner.com/a-536474~_Trapped_between_two_worlds_.html?cid=dc-article-obama


194 posted on 05/09/2008 10:39:05 AM PDT by cyberella
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To: ought-six

Yes their idea of sovereignty is the right to be served. The ideas of individuals making choices that involve more than their sexuality or service to their egos scares them. A higher purpose driven by a belief of a higher power is the undoing to the faithless bureaucratic religion they promote.

How anyone who believes in God can be a liberal escapes me. Liberalism has at its heart faithlessness. How can you trust God when you expect a government to replace him? Children are no longer blessings to be celebrated but planned engagements to canceled on a whim. Charity is no longer something given freely to someone in need but something stripped from a person before they even get their paycheck and handed out without the smallest bit of gratitude received or charitable feeling exchanged. The result has been the poor becoming more and more isolated and people becoming more and more divided along class lines. Is that the Uniting of America those Demonic twisters of words desire?

Modern liberalism attacks greed but forgets that even greater vice coveting. They have worked to build a world where one can not survive or move up without the approval of liberal education institutions which they have worked to strengthen at every turn even has they continue to fail and teach propaganda that blames America for the ills of the world. They see no price too high to pay to feed the ever growing beast of government no matter how many lose their houses, their livelihoods as business shut their doors due to the heavy hand of government that sucks their profits out as quickly as they come in.

Has anyone quantified the cost of lives, the broken spirits, or the poor man or woman who faces the cold pen of a bureaucracy which would skin them alive if only it was following the letter of the law? It is not because I am cold or heartless that I do not trust the government it is because I know the cold and heartlessness done in the name of pieces of paper by pampered men and women drunk with power who find sympathy for murders and cowards while they imprison our soldiers and defenders of our borders if only to satisfy the clowns on tv.

We should not become slaves to the needs and wants of our time. We do not need human saviors to look down on us and our quaint patriotism and to snicker at our God and our families. Instead we should defend liberty and our personal sovereignty against all compromise. This country was not founded by weak hearted conciliators content to be patted on the head while on bended knee by aristocracy. They fought and bled and risked sacrifice of all to fight that which now increasingly occupies the seat of power in this nation.

The one thing that they did though that should give us hope is that they left an imprint that all the efforts of hell has failed to snuff out and that is that “We the People” not they in power have the final word. I know this brings a small grin to those that believe themselves far removed from the touch of everyman but someday they will step too far, someday they will hear the shouts, someday we shall cast them into the fire, and be free of their downcast gaze while across this land rings a sweet sound of freedom as bureaucracy dies against our rage.


195 posted on 05/09/2008 11:01:32 AM PDT by Maelstorm (Never confuse polite defferment for submission.)
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To: Argus

talking about his wife for her do-nothing job at UChicago Med School?


196 posted on 05/09/2008 11:13:31 AM PDT by stan_sipple
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To: aruanan

It’s about time for Larry Sinclair to come to the forefront. Obama is the nominee, now the sinking of the Bismark can begin.


197 posted on 05/09/2008 11:17:15 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart..)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

America is screwed no matter who wins. Liberal, globalist republicans raise taxes, too.


198 posted on 05/09/2008 12:29:40 PM PDT by Creek Injun
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To: Free ThinkerNY; kristinn
Posted on 06/29/2004 9:12:49 AM EDT by kristinn Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton....(Marxist-socialist apparatchiks-Cuba), speaking at a Democratic party fundraiser in San Francisco yesterday, was remarkably frank about the Democrats' intentions to use socialist redistribution policies if the party gains power after the November elections. As reported by the Associated Press, Sen. Clinton said, "Many of you are well enough off that ... the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." With her blunt statement, Sen. Clinton has drawn clear the difference between the two major parties: The Marxist Democratic party will "take things away from you on behalf of the common good" while the Republicans will defend your right to spend your money as you see fit because they know it's your money, not the government's. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1162267/posts

We're Screwed...need I say more.

199 posted on 05/09/2008 12:57:31 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid,doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you..our hopes were dashed by CINOs :)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

“The commie bastard wants to take more money from those who are doing the most for America’s corporations.”

Yeppp... except - the folks that run corporations are usually pretty smart, and you can bet some will start leaving and founding companies somewhere else. Heck I would. Put the company offshore, have fun then.


200 posted on 05/09/2008 1:06:28 PM PDT by farlander (Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
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