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Obama to 'tea-bag' protesters: I've already cut taxes
MarketWatch ^
| April 15, 2009 1:48 p.m. EDT
| Rex Nutting, MarketWatch
Posted on 04/15/2009 11:50:50 AM PDT by 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."
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhotaxcuts; economy; obama; taxday; tea; teaparty
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I’m buying a new car with all the money. /sarcasm
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:52:07 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
He is an idiot. A true idiot.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:52:25 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(tea parties quarterly until we get big enough to simply take over by force if necessary)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
is that smoke coming from his butt?
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:52:37 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(We live in interesting times: now the entire IRS works for a tax evader)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
We don’t have a dream of slavery by government, our ancestors fought to end it. Jerk.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:52:47 AM PDT
by
Earthdweller
(Socialism makes you feel better about oppressing people.....)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sadly Obama thinks we really are stupid to believe that a cut in withholding is really a cut in taxes.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:53:11 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
“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.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:53:11 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(I am a right wing extremist. God Bless America)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:53:21 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
("Failed Obama Administration" (TM))
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
notice how obama almost daily speaks publicly.
notice how w did not.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:53:51 AM PDT
by
ken21
(the only thing we have to fear is fdr deja vu.)
To: bmwcyle
Sounds like ‘bammy’s sayin’
LET THEM EAT CAKE
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:54:00 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, Bowman later)
To: bmwcyle
"Im buying a new car with all the money." Cool...one of these, I'll bet!
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:54:54 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:54:55 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Beat a better path, and the world will build a mousetrap at your door.)
To: GeronL
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.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:54:56 AM PDT
by
FlashBack
('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yeah, that extra 20 bucks a paycheck is a real taxcut.
We have a real idiot in the WH.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:55:15 AM PDT
by
rwfromkansas
("Carve your name on hearts, not marble." - C.H. Spurgeon)
To: Joe 6-pack
What’s a “car” doing on the sidewalk?
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:56:14 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators. -Will Rogers)
To: silverleaf; Free ThinkerNY
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
My response to Obama (ptui!): “Don’t pi$$ up my leg and try to convince me that it’s raining, you complusive liar.”
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:56:52 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Bitter FReeping, gun toting, bible clinging, family loving, Obama despising, Right Wing Extremist.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I just read a few posts down where hussein claimed to not even know the protests were going on. I’m so confused.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:57:10 AM PDT
by
Sig Sauer P220
(We have our own pirates. They're called politicians.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:57:11 AM PDT
by
Shannon
To: EQAndyBuzz
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.
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posted on
04/15/2009 11:57:20 AM PDT
by
brewcrew
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