Obama to Raise Taxes Today (Harry Reid: "A Happy Day for America")

Wednesday, February 4, 2009 | Kristinn

[screaminsunshine]

Time to quit smoking.

[popdonnelly]

The increased tobacco taxes will reduce consumption. Then where will the government get the tax revenue to pay for SCHIP?

[laweeks]

That’ll put the moisture back in the liberals panties, won’t it? Don’t forget . . . Harry Reid said that our tax system is NOT coercive and is totally voluntary . . . so I can’t wait to have my taxes raised . . . I’m happier than a poop-house mouse!

[dforest]

They will take it from everyone’s paycheck.

[maggief]

"It's going to be a happy day for America."

[allmost]

[MrB]

Democrats don’t mind raising taxes because they never intend to pay them.

[orlop9]

Smoke 'em for the chilrens
my goodness those dems come up with original ideas, where o where do they get 'em?

[oldvike]

This is a tax on the poor people. These are the same folks that voted for him!

[TSgt]

The increased tobacco taxes will reduce consumption.

As well as medical expenses associated with smoking and secondhand smoke!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Question for Obama: What’s the percentage of welfare and low-income Americcans who smoke?

Headline - “Obama Raises Taxes on Cigarettes: Low Income Americans Hardest Hit!”

[FlingWingFlyer]

I heard this referred to by a news anchor as a “very popular” program. If it’s so damned “popular,” why are smokers being forced into paying for it? A 30 year old is a “children?” Gimme a break! Yeah. A very “happy day for Amerika.” This should be called the illegal alien free healthcare program.

[Logical me]

Dang, these RATS and Obama are the dumbest nitwits that have ever walked the Earth. Once the program go to the capacity that they are proposing, and tobacco sales goes down, what then.

[St. Louis Conservative]

Start smoking everyone, little kiddies depend on you for their government healthcare.

Smoking is the new patriotism!

[SoldierDad]

Thankfully I quit 20 years ago. My primary reason was for the health of my children, especially my youngest who suffered from acute asthma. Secondary to that was the huge tax increase that went into effect January 1989. Now they are at it again. And, who is going to be hit hardest by this tax increase? People living at or below the poverty line.

[MrB]

Has anyone else discussed with a liberal
the fact that taxes are taken at gunpoint?

In my experience, they refuse to acknowledge that their policies are implemented through the threat of deadly force.

[Hatteras]

[Iron Munro]

"I will not raise taxes on anyone making less
than $250,000 a year"

(until I actually become president)

[CodeToad]

He said he was going to “lower taxes for 95% of Americans”.

Another Obama Lie.