Posted on 09/26/2011 5:13:03 PM PDT by Son House
Former early Google employee Doug Edwards had a message for President Obama today: Raise my taxes, please.
Edwards, who was employee #59 at Google and is now not working, asked the question in Mountain View, Calif. at the Town Hall event today Obama held with LinkedIn to discuss job creation.
“My question is would you please raise my taxes?” Edwards said from the audience during the question and answer period. “I would like very much for our country to continue to invest in things like Pell grants, infrastructure, job training–programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am. It kills me to see Congress not supporting the expiration of tax cuts that have been benefiting so much of us for so long.”
After asking where Edwards formerly worked (to which Edwards replied coyly, “a search engine”), Obama said that the U.S. needs to invest in education and other infrastructure that makes people successful.
“We’re successful because somebody invested in our education,” Obama said. “Somebody built our schools. I went to school on scholarship… We all benefited somewhere from somebody making an investment in us. If we make those investments how do we pay for it?”
Obama went on to say he wants to take tax rates back to the rates of the 1990s, when the economy was strong and all socio-economic sectors improved. Obama is locked in a battle with Congressional Republicans over job spending and taxes.
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Hey Edwards, how about just donate everything you have?
Client #9....Google Employee #59....what’s the diff??? Two FREAKING MORONS that have NO common sense!
If he thinks he doesn’t pay enough in taxes, there IS a line where he can send in MORE money to the taxman...
May I please get down on my knees for you Mr. President?
He says as he adjusts his Lewinski pads.
What a brown nosing turd this guy is.
Yeah, and the government has been on a spending binge for years, there’s no excuse for not offering to help pay the bills if that is his intention.
What a moron! Hey Doug, c’mon down here and pay our taxes. We won’t mind at all.....I’ll run and tell Hub. Thanks!
Socialist bootlicker having his 15 minutes of pre-arranged fame.
His intention is one of envy: to harm anyone who has more than he does.
Steven King = raise my taxes!
Personal/voluntary contribution = 0
Warren Buffet = raise my taxes!
Persona/voluntary contribution = 0 (hasn’t even paid what he owes
Google plant = raise my taxes!
let’s see if he follows the pattern.
it’s all about image, folks...no substance to be seen here on the left.
Another Obama Shill - especially in lieu of the fact that he has already made his millions. Do you think he volunteers to pay the government what he believes is his “fair share” - hell no, he gives it to Obama for his campaign. What a piece of crap.
Retroactively?
I think this one is wearing the "Larry Sinclair Model" pads with the secret "Obama Stash" cocaine pockets.
When d-bags like this claim they want to pay higher taxes, but turn to the government for a law requiring it for all of us, they don’t really want - or intend - to pay higher taxes. It’s a scam. Anyone with half a brain knows that they only need to write a check to the treasury.
Liars.
Will someone please tell “Doug Edwards” that he can send in a check any time? Or just quit hiring those expensive CPA’s to find every tax break..
Yes: My mistake.
Hey, #59, there’s a special department for that. Contribute away.
So, Zero says he went to school on a scholarship. Which one? ;)
The planted questioner has always bothered me! Then again maybe the lack of media exposure of the planted questioner bothers me more.....
Great Gravy...
How many wells would have that have dug? How many villages could have have been provided medicines? How many orphans could have been provided care? How many Bibles could have been distributed?
Nope, I think I'll write a check to a bunch of marxists who seek to destroy the Country.
Its his money ... but what a waste...
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