Honest question...What is the proposed floor for the tax hikes? $250,000, $200,000 or $150,000. Did he clarify?
I predicted to friends several weeks ago that it would drop to less than 6 figures after he got in office. I really did not believe that it would start dropping before the election!
Just tell your friends to ignore what he says and look at his actions (after all, a politician will say anything to get elected).. Obama’s RECORD is voting for tax hikes on anyone earning over $40k per year.
The only way to judge if his words are true is to judge his actions, and his actions prove his words are a lie.
You really should not ask Obama an honest question. Just ask Joe the Plumber.
“I really did not believe that it would start dropping before the election!”
THe patient’s (US) vitals must be slowing...........
“Honest question...What is the proposed floor for the tax hikes? $250,000, $200,000 or $150,000. Did he clarify?
I predicted to friends several weeks ago that it would drop to less than 6 figures after he got in office. I really did not believe that it would start dropping before the election!”
The proposed floor (if you could hear Pelosi, Reid, Dean and Obama speak privately) is “you work, we take more.”
It’s a repeat of Clinton’s 1992 plan: BS endlessly about a tax cut, and then (expletive deleted) everyone with a job as soon as elected.
“Back when Mr. Clinton was campaigning for president in 1992, he made a pretty direct pitch: Raise taxes on people making more than $200,000, and use those revenues to fund tax relief for the “forgotten middle class.”
In an October presidential debate, then-Gov. Clinton laid out the marginal-rate increase he wanted and some of his plans for the revenue that would be brought in. He followed with a pledge:
“Now, I’ll tell you this,” he said. “I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs. If the money does not come in there to pay for these programs, we will cut other government spending, or we will slow down the phase-in of the programs.”
Mr. Clinton, of course, won that election. And as the inauguration approached, he began backtracking from his promise. At a Jan. 14, 1993, press conference in New Hampshire, he claimed that it was the media that had played up a middle-class tax cut, not him. A month later, he announced his actual plan before a joint session of Congress.
On page one of the New York Times, the paper described the fate of the middle-class tax cut this way: “Families earning as little as $20,000 a year — members of the ‘forgotten middle class’ whose taxes he promised during his campaign to cut — will also be asked to send more dollars to Washington under the President’s plan.””
(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122333585431009523.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop)