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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

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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Individual tax refunds are up about 16%, or $30 billion, compared with last year.

Uhm, you mean on 2008 taxes?

Means the withholding estimates were high compared to actual earnings. Which is not surprising being that many families lost on investments, and had spouses lose jobs and so forth, which put them in lower income brackets.

Not that its Obama's fault the economy was poor before he got in the white house. But the fact that the poor economy resulted in lower taxes than expected for families, that year, has nothing at all to do with Obama's policies.

Lo, once again Obama demonstrates he is a dishonest propagandist.

41 posted on 04/15/2009 12:21:49 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

“...rather than simply giving more...”
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This is the problem, and obama doesn’t understand it. It’s not the government’s job to GIVE money to the poor, the middle class, or the wealthy. Seems like a Constitutional scholar would understand this.


42 posted on 04/15/2009 12:22:28 PM PDT by ElayneJ
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To: GeronL
He is an idiot. A true idiot.

I don't think Obama is an idiot. But I think he thinks that we are.

43 posted on 04/15/2009 12:22:39 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: rwfromkansas; SeaDragon; TheGrimReaper
Yeah, that extra 20 bucks a paycheck is a real taxcut.

How can it be a tax cut, when we still owe taxes on it? A cut in the withholding perhaps...

I've already had my payroll people make my withholdings what they were prior to the grand cut. That way I won't be surprised come tax time NEXT year.

RS

44 posted on 04/15/2009 12:28:51 PM PDT by RikaStrom (Bitter? Who me? Nah, I'm just clinging to my guns!)
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To: Go Gordon

Go figure, eh?


45 posted on 04/15/2009 12:32:35 PM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: Raebie

Yepper, next April 15....


46 posted on 04/15/2009 12:34:19 PM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Life Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

$8 a week? Wow you’re amazing, half-black Jesus.


47 posted on 04/15/2009 12:34:45 PM PDT by Sir Gawain ("Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect" - Thoreau)
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To: pnh102
Sadly Obama thinks we really are stupid to believe that a cut in withholding is really a cut in taxes.

I can't get through to people on this!!! It's frustrating the level of ignorance people have about the taxes they pay. That $13.00/week will end up leaving you with either a smaller refund or worst case having to pay when you're expecting a refund. An even lesser known fact is that that $7000 tax incentive for first time home buyers will need to be paid back to the gvt to the tune of $500/yr for the next 14 years!!! Zero's playing us for suckers with this income tax 3 card monte game.

48 posted on 04/15/2009 12:36:05 PM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

If you look at the current tax tables, you’ll see that there was no tax cut. We’re going to pay for the “increase” next tax season. The President is LYING.


49 posted on 04/15/2009 12:38:52 PM PDT by The Toad
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Obama is pretty damn stupid. It's not what is withheld out of paychecks, it's what is filed at tax time. There is no tax cut, it is a so-called stimulus payment that expires.
What's he going to do when Bush's Tax Cuts expire?
50 posted on 04/15/2009 12:41:56 PM PDT by tobyhill ("Hope and Change" is so overrated!)
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To: The Toad

The Nov. 5 edition of USA Today states that, in their exit poll, 63% said that the economy was their most important issue. Among that group, 54% voted for Obama. If they really cared about the economy, they shouldn’t have voted for the candidate who promised that he would propose tax rate increases. Increasing tax rates usually harms the economy.

I attended the Chicago Tea Party, and it was so crowded, I could barely move.


51 posted on 04/15/2009 12:44:19 PM PDT by PhilCollins
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

One question I continue to ask: Has Obama instituted tax rate cuts? NO. In fact, he has vowed to get rid of Bush Tax cuts, which means EVERYONE’s tax rate will go up.

How can Obama get away with this? MOST people getting money back don’t pay taxes; the others are simply getting less withheld. When the end of the tax year comes, the piper will have to be paid. The media OF COURSE continues to allow Obama to bastardize the word “tax cuts” since he is NOT cutting taxes but increasing them by getting rid of deductions and allowing the true tax cuts to increase.


52 posted on 04/15/2009 12:48:35 PM PDT by t2buckeye
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To: Raebie
I have a question. So they’re witholding 13 dollars less per paycheck. If I’m still being taxed at the same rate when I file my returns, don’t I essentially pay all of that back?

Ding! You get the moment of clarity award for the day.

All they've done is screw with the withholding allowance....tax tables are exactly the same.

The good news is that - thanks to this withholding - a lot of the dumb masses will get hit with a tax bill, April 15th, 2010. Right in the middle of the mid-term elections season. :-)

53 posted on 04/15/2009 12:50:07 PM PDT by wbill
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Did Obama decry the use of taxes as a form of political
social engineering? NO.

Did Obama decry the use of taxes as a means to punish the
successful? No.

Did Obama decry the use of taxes as a means of buying
votes from those who are addicted to welfare and government
largess? NO!

We aren’t buying your propaganda Obama!

Off to the Tea Party!


54 posted on 04/15/2009 12:56:55 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Obama has no concept of economics. A tax cut is when the actual tax rate is reduced, let’s say from 17% to a 13% tax rate.

Obama has not reduced the tax rates. The money on the checks people are receiving is a “tax credit.” It is taxable Income. The way I understand it, that extra money will be taxed on your 2009 Income Tax return.

Thanks BO!


55 posted on 04/15/2009 12:59:11 PM PDT by carikadon
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To: tet68

Got Cavuto on right now with a nation wide hookup to the Tea Parties...


56 posted on 04/15/2009 1:18:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Raebie
You will be paying that money like before. Obama is the stinking lair that you expected. I just heard a woman at one of the tea parties say she wanted Obama to succeed. This is so foolish.I wish people would get over Obama being black. He is a commie and a lair.
57 posted on 04/15/2009 1:33:59 PM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The keyword is families - singles don’t seem to count.


58 posted on 04/15/2009 4:49:36 PM PDT by JavaJumpy
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To: tet68

Hey tom how can you be in two places at once.


59 posted on 04/15/2009 7:01:33 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: RikaStrom

I simply cannot afford any more of Barry’s “tax cuts”.


60 posted on 04/15/2009 8:51:08 PM PDT by TheGrimReaper (FUBO)
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