Obama Lied. People Cried.
You better believe Democrats lie awake at night dreaming up ways to increase taxes. A one hundred percent tax on the “wealthy” wouldn’t be enough for them.
Please Bambi, push the VAT.
Please, please, please, pretty please.
Obama wants to "reduce wasteful spending" like al qaeda wants to reduce terrorism.
"I know that there's been a lot of talk around town lately about the value-added tax. That is something that has worked for some countries. It's something that would be novel for the United States." "And before, you know, I start saying 'this makes sense or that makes sense,' I want to get a better picture of what our options are," Obama said.
That should be easy for Gibbs to spin.
bring on that vat option obama.......IT WILL GET A LOT OF DEMS ELECTED IN NOVEMBER!
Republicans need to point out that Obama setup a debt commission to get him out of his constant promises that the middle class <250 K would never have to pay for ANY of his spending. Not only did he promise us not to raise them to get elected, but he said the stimulus was free, he said his budgets were free, the GM bailout was free, AIG, Fannie Mae and Freddy MAC all free to us. There is no f..ing way any of this stuff would have passed congress if he didnt constantly lie about who would pay for it. He is not the first, but he is the worst.
His debt commission is like his 100 economists that he claimed said we need to run up the $700B stimulus debt bill on wasteful spending. Paul Krugman was probably the only one he really had.
Before deciding what revenue options are best for dealing with the deficit and the economy, Obama......should not have proposed a buster budget in the first place, then piled on more and more, and continue to in the form of more taxes and cap-and-tax. Nice that the partisan media shills continue to give him a forum. Thanks Nachum.