Posted on 09/26/2011 4:30:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Wealthy Man Asks Obama ‘Please Raise My Taxes’
President Obama took a break from his three-day campaign fundraising tour today to pitch his $447 billion jobs plan and defend his proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy to reduce the deficit, arguing that everyone is going to have to do their “fair share.”
At the “Putting America Back to Work” LinkedIn town hall in Mountain View, Calif., Obama came face-to-face with his deficit-reduction proposal. “Would you please raise my taxes?” asked Doug Edwards a former director of consumer marketing and branding at Google, who described himself as “unemployed by choice.”
“I would like very much to have the country to continue to invest in things like Pell grants and infrastructure and job training programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am,” Edwards said. “And it kills me to see Congress not supporting the expiration of the tax cuts that have been benefitting so many of us for so long. I think that needs to change, and I hope that you’ll stay strong in doing that.”
The question set up the president to explain why he thinks it’s necessary to reform the tax code so that “everybody is doing their fair share.”
“This is not an issue of do we somehow try to punish those who’ve done well. That’s the last thing we want to do. It’s a question of how can we afford to continue to make the investments that are going to propel America forward?” Obam
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Moron Asks Obama ‘Please Raise My Taxes’
Stockholm syndrome at its best.
A plant.
Fixed it.
Corrected corrected title:
Major Democratic Donor Toes Party Line and Asks Obama to ‘Raise His Taxes’ Instead of Voluntarily Paying More
so send a check
A planted Google executive with a planned and obvious softball for Obama.
What keeps these Morons from sending more money to the Treasury?? Really, what is it? Why don’t they just send in more money??
did the article not ID the guy as a heavy Dem donor from Google? He donated at least $300K to the Democrats since 2002 or something like that.
Just a random guy in the audience he is NOT.
How stupid are these sheeple to sit there and applaud a man who complains his taxes are too low but wont pay more taxes unless the president makes him.
I presume the IRS is already on the way to his house to help him out.
Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
Travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody’s looking for something
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
He might have just as well have been wearing a sign around his neck that sand "Plant".
SADIST: NO!
did he have a ‘kick me’ sign on his back also?
rich dude that now unemployed by choice??? sounds like Atlas Shrugged more than a clown that wants his taxes raised...
Even your average “poor” person knows this guy is a maroon.
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In this case, Moron has two meanings.
One, political hack teed up with this question.
Two, desperately trying to get taxed so he can turn around and scream "Why am I the only one getting taxed! Tax everyone else too!"
Doug the socialist scumbag can go google the Treasury Dept's donation page and make his socialist little heart feel all better.
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