Posted on 03/14/2015 12:03:25 PM PDT by lbryce
Here we go again. White House press secretary Josh Earnest has officially confirmed that President Barack Obama plans to implement yet another executive order. This one is slated to send tax rates skyrocketing through the roof!
The hoopla started last Friday, when Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders submitted a letter to the White House that asked the president to nullify six currently active corporate tax breaks. Closing these tax breaks would raise $100 billion in a decade, but also cost us innumerable jobs.
When questioned about this letter by Ed Henry, senior White House correspondent with Fox News, Earnest first tried to dodge the question by saying that “the president’s ability to use executive authority to move the country in the right direction” is always a possibility.
This statement signifies that the White House views a potential tax increase in a positive light. Ed Henry rebutted it by bluntly asking, “Would the president raise taxes by executive action?”
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after a while, even the country club republicans will end up losing their polyester suits to obama. boo ****** hoo.
Correction...".....in the left direction...."
It’s okay, with unemployment as low as it is now we can afford to lose a few jbs. We all know it won’t affect the unemployment rate.
How wonderful it would be if you were wrong. But, you are not. Sad.
Executive Order + Weak Congress = Dictator
“He can’t change them.”
Sanders says he has found some regulations, not laws, that can be changed. I don’t believe him but that’s his pitch.
”… senior White House correspondent with Fox News, .."
We’re probably never going to hear Obama guard dog Fx News mention that the Supreme Court has clarified limits on Congress’s power to appropriate taxes. More specifically, the Court had indicated that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limted powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
Thomas Jefferson had reflected on this issue.
"The States should be left to do whatever acts they can do as well as the General Government." --Thomas Jefferson to John Harvie, 1790.
The best step towards putting a stop to constitutionally indefensible federal taxes, imo, is to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
Why doesn’t the House and Senate just issue contradictive “Legislative Orders” and we can choose which we want to follow.
Well, he could just declare them in recess; he has done it before. However, why bother, they serve as an useful sideshow to distract the masses. Congress will not save the US. The people and the states could, but there needs to be a mass movement to throw off the yoke of the oppressor.
Aw, Geez. Another Executive Fatwa.
It could slow down commerce. But like Uncle Warren, these entities will simply not pay until they are forced. it could take years, but in the meanwhile......
Obama is simply overwhelming the system with his corruption and treason.
Another day, another EO and another day of the GOP doing nothing.
The Executive controls the jackboots with the guns. Government has become rule by threat of violence.
Then he will do it for sure, and he will get away with it, as he always does.
What Congress?
No taxation without representation is the hill that our forefathers died on. We cannot retreat from that. If Obama tries to unilaterally raise taxes he is traitor and a usurper and must be impeached.
Raise ‘em all you want, punk, I ain’t paying you sh!t.
I am not sure that the Press guy not answering a direct question is not exactly spilling the beans.
Obama might try this. I would not put it past him. But I do not think its imminent.
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