Obama to 'tea-bag' protesters: I've already cut taxes

MarketWatch ^ | April 15, 2009 1:48 p.m. EDT | Rex Nutting, MarketWatch

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Obliquely answering the hundreds of "tea bag" protests around the country on tax day, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he's already delivered the most progressive tax cut in history, with 95% of families getting a tax break in every paycheck.

Americans need a "government that is working to create jobs and opportunity for them, rather than simply giving more and more to those at the very top in the false hope that wealth will trickle down," Obama said.

In his remarks, Obama decried the use of taxes as a political wedge issue "to scare people into supporting policies that increased the burden on working people instead of helping them live their dreams."

[bmwcyle]

I’m buying a new car with all the money. /sarcasm

[GeronL]

He is an idiot. A true idiot.

[silverleaf]

is that smoke coming from his butt?

[Earthdweller]

We don’t have a dream of slavery by government, our ancestors fought to end it. Jerk.

[pnh102]

Sadly Obama thinks we really are stupid to believe that a cut in withholding is really a cut in taxes.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Obliquely answering the hundreds of “tea bag” protests around the country on tax day, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that he’s already delivered the most progressive tax cut in history, with 95% of families getting a tax break in every paycheck.”

If Obama wants to impress me, today he should go on TV and announce that the Bush tax cuts will be made permanent.

[Corin Stormhands]

bookmark

[ken21]

notice how obama almost daily speaks publicly.

notice how w did not.

[MrB]

Sounds like ‘bammy’s sayin’

LET THEM EAT CAKE

[Joe 6-pack]

"I’m buying a new car with all the money."

Cool...one of these, I'll bet!

[HiTech RedNeck]

What's this "hope it'll trickle down" nonsense, Bummer?

It will flow down if you get out of the way of big, medium, and small business. That's who hires the most people. The sweet spot of maximum revenue to the Treasury is at a smaller tax rate than what we have now.

[FlashBack]

I think it amounts to what 7 bucks a week??? I’m sure the tax INCREASE on that will equal out to the gov’t taking 20-25 more per week in the end.

[rwfromkansas]

Yeah, that extra 20 bucks a paycheck is a real taxcut.

We have a real idiot in the WH.

[Osage Orange]

What’s a “car” doing on the sidewalk?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Related thread:

White House Says Obama ‘Unaware’ of Tea Parties (video report)

[OB1kNOb]

My response to Obama (ptui!): “Don’t pi$$ up my leg and try to convince me that it’s raining, you complusive liar.”

[Sig Sauer P220]

I just read a few posts down where hussein claimed to not even know the protests were going on. I’m so confused.

[Shannon]

O has already delivered the most progressive tax cut in history??? He must mean that $8/week people are getting. Is he on drugs? Seriously.

[brewcrew]

If Obama wants to impress me, today he should go on TV and announce that the Bush tax cuts will be made permanent.

Or, make them bigger, make them permanent, and call them the "Obama" tax cuts.

Hell, I'd let him name them after himself if he did that.