Posted on 01/18/2015 9:28:00 AM PST by Olog-hai
President Barack Obama is turning to his biggest television audience of the year to pitch tax increases on the wealthiest Americans and put the new Republican Congress in the position of defending top income earners over the middle class.
As Obama continues to signal what he will propose during Tuesday's State of the Union address, senior administration officials said during the weekend that he will call for raising the capital gains rate on top income earners and eliminating a tax break on inheritances. The revenue generated by those changes would fund new tax credits and other cost-saving measures for middle-class taxpayers, officials said. …
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Obama has to raise taxes to help the middle class because he gave their programs to the illegal aliens.
Exactly! Punishing the productive citizens, the job creators, does not help the middle class.
FUBO
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