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Will Obama Dictate Tax Hikes By Imperial Decree?
Investors Business Daily ^ | 03/04/2015

Posted on 03/04/2015 6:20:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Raw Power: The White House press secretary has acknowledged that President Obama is indeed interested in using executive orders to raise taxes. The long national nightmare that is the Obama presidency gets worse.

All those speeches Obama made years ago about being unable to unilaterally decree laws that his supporters wanted him to enact were merely a setup for him doing it.

It's clear he wanted to appear as if he respected his constitutional limits as president so that when he did what he said he couldn't do, he would look like he was operating within the law.

No one should have been surprised when Press Secretary Josh Earnest told the White House press corps Monday that "the president certainly has not indicated any reticence in using his executive authority to try and advance an agenda that benefits middle-class Americans." The response came after a reporter asked Earnest about the possibility of the administration raising more than $100 billion in new tax revenues through executive order to close corporate tax loopholes.

"Now I don't want to leave you with the impression that there is some imminent announcement; there is not, at least that I know of," said Earnest.

"But the president has asked his team to examine the array of executive authorities that are available to him to try to make progress on his goals. So I am not in a position to talk in any detail at this point, but the president is very interested in this avenue generally."

Yes, we've noticed that the president is "very interested" in acting alone. In fact, we'd say he believes he alone is the law in America.

We've watched the president issue unlawful executive orders giving illegal immigrants amnesty,

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: decree; obama; taxes

1 posted on 03/04/2015 6:20:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Kenyan, his “magic writing stick” and his “talking box” are about ready to stick it to Americans again. Watch your wallet.


2 posted on 03/04/2015 6:23:51 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Illegal aliens are far superior to Americans. - So say the 'RATS and RINOs.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

There is nothing about this bozo that respects the limits of the Constitution, beginning with “natural born citizen.”


3 posted on 03/04/2015 6:27:34 AM PST by immadashell (The inmates are running the asylum.)
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To: SeekAndFind

But the GOPe is not going to impeach the tyrant. So, what’s Plan B? A military coup?


4 posted on 03/04/2015 6:33:45 AM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: SeekAndFind

Where’s the pic of the bear in the woods?


5 posted on 03/04/2015 6:42:47 AM PST by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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Less Than 1.8K To Go
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6 posted on 03/04/2015 7:00:17 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Old Sarge
Where’s the pic of the bear in the woods?


7 posted on 03/04/2015 7:01:27 AM PST by Rodamala
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To: GodAndCountryFirst

The GOP controls Congress, sadly conservatives do not. Speaker Boehner’s lack of resistance to “Dear Leader” is not so much ‘cause he’s a coward but an obedient employee... his (1%) bosses same as Obama´s. Resistance to the coming tyranny will NOT be from D.C. it must come from states and local governments on the enforcement (or lack thereof) side. Many local sheriffs beginning to resist unconstitutional decrees.


8 posted on 03/04/2015 7:03:29 AM PST by FiddlePig
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To: SeekAndFind

He not going to raise taxes, he going to “close loopholes”

like the one that lets you keep some of your income


9 posted on 03/04/2015 7:04:05 AM PST by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: GodAndCountryFirst
"So, what’s Plan B?"

We don't ever talk about the Plan B in mixed company....

10 posted on 03/04/2015 7:08:32 AM PST by Psalm 73 ("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
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To: FiddlePig

I don’t see local sheriffs doing enough. It’s totally within their authority to stop the illegal issuance of “gay marriage” licenses and to arrest bureaucrats who continue to issue them. But who has done that? Who has even CALLED for that?


11 posted on 03/04/2015 7:18:27 AM PST by GodAndCountryFirst
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To: SeekAndFind

Who’s going to stop him?


12 posted on 03/04/2015 7:36:46 AM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

Nobody. Congress won’t, and a military coup is not in the American psyche. Keyboard Kommandos will bitch and moan until they have no internet service to bitch from, and anyone with the balls to stop this tyranny would have already done so. Pessimist? No, just realistic.


13 posted on 03/04/2015 7:47:36 AM PST by Gideon300
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To: GodAndCountryFirst

the GOPe has decided to avoid the risk of being labeled ‘racist’ and instead, letting his bs get challenged in the courts.

of course, those courts are stocked by 0bama with friendly judges... so you can forget any help there.

as for military coup, they might be a bit too fabulous these days to consider it.


14 posted on 03/04/2015 7:56:42 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: SeekAndFind

Yes he will. NO one will stop him. I’m taking bets of anyone is interested.


15 posted on 03/04/2015 8:11:28 AM PST by woodenickel
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To: SeekAndFind

Since our Senate and House (Both parties) are a bunch of worthless traitors, we may have to turn to protection to our individual states to nullify the increasingly rapid transformation of our country into a totalitarian dictatorship. Strong, conservative state governors and legislatures need to just start saying “NO, this is unconstitutional and we will not force our citizens to pay ‘tribute’ to the oppressive foreign power center that has taken over the territory formerly called the USA”.

Conservative states, stop taking ALL federal funds and STAND UP to the tyrants!


16 posted on 03/04/2015 8:16:10 AM PST by boxlunch
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To: SeekAndFind

Why not? He will get no opposition and there is no extant Constitution to prevent him.


17 posted on 03/04/2015 8:20:24 AM PST by arthurus (it's true!)
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To: boxlunch

The problem is Republican statehouses, like the rest, have a hand held out for the cash grab from fedzilla. What it takes is taxpayers willing to refuse and then shoot the federal agents that show up looking to get their pound of flesh. Stop funding it... afterall, the treasonous traitor Republicrats in power have yet to control any purse strings... and roll over supine like catamites to please the undocumented worker-in-chief in the White House.


18 posted on 03/04/2015 10:05:26 AM PST by Rodamala
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