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Obama seeking tax increases on wealthy to help middle class
Houston Chronicle ^ | January 17, 2015 | JULIE PACE

Posted on 01/18/2015 4:11:09 AM PST by BradtotheBone

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1 posted on 01/18/2015 4:11:09 AM PST by BradtotheBone
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To: BradtotheBone

Help the middle class? Nope, just another reparations scheme.


2 posted on 01/18/2015 4:15:35 AM PST by Graybeard58 (Much violence and crime can be explained by the Bell Curve (Bing it))
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To: BradtotheBone

I fail to see how that’s going to help the middle class.


3 posted on 01/18/2015 4:18:29 AM PST by livius
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To: BradtotheBone

Regardless of party or president in power, I really am sick of presidential agendas, as if it were a talent revue in which they have 10 minutes to do a prepared act.

They have the theory and the practice ass-backward; the president is not the Chief Legislator so why are we always hearing about presidential bills?

It’s clear that the founders intended the Congress to be first among co-equal branches, as it were, since they were most directly accountable and had the smallest ratio of voters-to-federal politician.


4 posted on 01/18/2015 4:21:50 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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To: BradtotheBone

Republicans have said they want to propose major tax reforms in the coming months. This is Obama’s way of pre-empting that and painting any plan the GOP comes up with as a ‘tax break for the wealthy’ scheme.


5 posted on 01/18/2015 4:21:57 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: livius

Especially after bleeding them dry with zerocare.


6 posted on 01/18/2015 4:24:08 AM PST by txhurl
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To: BradtotheBone

Everything he’s done has turned to crap, but he’ll be trying to “redistribute the wealth” till the bitter end of his rule. The idiot actually believed his professors that this time Communism would work. The nation should declare a holiday when he leaves the White House….unless it’s Hillary who will be moving in.


7 posted on 01/18/2015 4:26:13 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: BradtotheBone

This clown has no clue... None.


8 posted on 01/18/2015 4:29:18 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: BradtotheBone
Communists never tell you how much is your "fair share", but they mean "from each according to his ability to each according to his need."

Marx's statement of the creed in the 'Critique of the Gotha Program' is as follows:

In a higher phase of communist society, after the enslaving subordination of the individual to the division of labor, and therewith also the antithesis between mental and physical labor, has vanished; after labor has become not only a means of life but life's prime want; after the productive forces have also increased with the all-around development of the individual, and all the springs of co-operative wealth flow more abundantly—only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be crossed in its entirety and society inscribe on its banners: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs!

9 posted on 01/18/2015 4:29:26 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: BradtotheBone

These guys really do only have one page in their play book.


10 posted on 01/18/2015 4:32:08 AM PST by Honcho
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To: BradtotheBone

Hey big jerk! you don’t get it!
The way to help people is to promote enterprise, businesses and manufacturing. People will have jobs and be happier.

Your way is stupid - taking money from those who earn it honestly and giving it to those who vote for you.


11 posted on 01/18/2015 4:32:18 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: BradtotheBone

So he would take nearly 10% of my money?

FU!

That is an extraordinary amount of money and I already pay enough taxes to fully pay for two peoples yearly income.

A-hole.

That anount goes to paying people to do stuff I don’t want to do and employs others for my vacations and stuff I buy.

Jerk off.


12 posted on 01/18/2015 4:36:26 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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They (pubs and Obama) already did this:

The United States’ federal top capital gains tax rate is now 23.8 percent due to two tax increases at the start of 2013.

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2014/01/22/capital-gains-inflation-and-infinite-effective-tax-rate

13 posted on 01/18/2015 4:38:36 AM PST by palmer (Free is when you don't have to pay for nothing. Or do nothing. We want Obamanet.)
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To: Vendome

Vendome,

You make and pay a lot more money than do I. Others make a lot more than you. What the Marxist in chief doesn’t like is that I am not jealous of anyone that is successful. Inequality of income by hard work is what makes America and our style of capitalism so great.

I’m not so happy about schemes aided by the government that make billionaires out of Wall Street crooks or “Green Energy” schisters or Sen. Feinstein’s husband.

The Dem’s next plan will be to redistribute ASSETS and not just income. With these clowns, our nation is screwed.

Oldplayer


14 posted on 01/18/2015 4:45:55 AM PST by oldplayer
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To: BradtotheBone

The middle class is not his concern it is a tag used to redistribute this money to the lower class bottom feeders


15 posted on 01/18/2015 4:49:45 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: BradtotheBone

A tax icrease “on the wealthy” will be a tax increase on businessmen, primarily small business owners, people who are, in fact, the epitome of the middle class. It will be a hammer applied to the heads of the middle class and to the working class as business are forced to cut back and entrepreneurs find other places to do business or to take their money to retire in more comfortable places. It was just so in England pre Thatcher. As the taxes escalated on the “rich,” the wealthy, businessmen and lords quit spending their money to build and develop businesses and bought Rolls Royces or left the country, taking their money to more profitable climes. Britain got steadily poorer until partially rescued by Margaret.


16 posted on 01/18/2015 4:52:17 AM PST by arthurus
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The middle class is not his concern it is a tag used to redistribute this money to the lower class bottom feeders

...and to keep them with just enough so that they remain non-working lower class bottom feeders who will vote socialist.

Just completing the sentence.

17 posted on 01/18/2015 4:58:54 AM PST by NewHampshireDuo
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To: BradtotheBone

The wealthy do not pay capital gains tax. They simply hold the asset and use leverage.


18 posted on 01/18/2015 4:59:26 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: BradtotheBone

Another “tax the wealthy” symbolic move.


19 posted on 01/18/2015 5:04:47 AM PST by MulberryDraw (But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. Ps 13:5)
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To: broken_arrow1

I guess the uber-Communist Fidel Castro “needs” the personal fortune of $100+ million he has amassed/stolen during his dictatorship. What a complete and total crock Communists and communism are and always will be (including Obummer, of course).


20 posted on 01/18/2015 5:05:47 AM PST by Cecily
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