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Obama: I’ll work with Republicans if they agree to raise taxes
yahoo ^ | 9/9/12 | Oliver Knox

Posted on 09/09/2012 8:45:13 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

President Barack Obama said in an interview partly broadcast Sunday that he would be "more than happy to work with the Republicans" to trim the swelling national debt — as long as they drop their opposition to raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans.

"You can't reduce the deficit unless you take a balanced approach that says, 'We've got to make government leaner and more efficient,'" the president told CBS's Scott Pelley. "But we've also got to ask people --like me or Gov. Romney, who have done better than anybody else over the course of the last decade, and whose taxes are just about lower than they've been in the last 50 years - to do a little bit more."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2012; liar; obama; obamalies; taxes
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To: DuncanWaring

He must be reading politico, the article where he has momentum.

Keep telling America your going to raise their taxes genius.

Landslide ! I can’t wait to get up and vote.

Does anyone here think zer0 will keep his mouth shut like Bush did?


21 posted on 09/09/2012 9:25:51 AM PDT by reefdiver (zer0 One and Done)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“Fool me twice...”

According to the recently published account of the debt ceiling negotiations, Boehner gave him a lot, but at the last moment, like the community organizer he is, Obama grabbed for more, breaking his previous word. Who can work with a sneaky liar like that?


22 posted on 09/09/2012 9:29:54 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Democrats lied to Reagan about cutting spending if he raised taxes. They lied to Bush 21 about cutting spending if he raised taxes. Why in the world would the GOP fall for this discredited gambit proposed by the biggest lying Democrat of them all?


23 posted on 09/09/2012 9:32:24 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee
Why in the world would the GOP fall for this discredited
gambit proposed by the biggest lying Democrat of them all?
i fear, b/c they're the Stupid Party...
recent history has taught us well....

24 posted on 09/09/2012 9:40:44 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (WA DC E$tabli$hment; DNC/RNC/Unionists...Brazilian saying: "$@me Old $hit; w/ different flie$" :^)
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To: SoFloFreeper

25 posted on 09/09/2012 9:47:48 AM PDT by timestax (Why not drug tests for the President AND all White Hut staff ? ? ?)
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To: txrefugee

“They lied to Bush 21 about cutting spending if he raised taxes. “

IIRC, the dems promised that every new dollar in taxes would be used to cut the deficit. Instead, they spent $1.84 for every new dollar raised by the tax increase.


26 posted on 09/09/2012 9:55:52 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obama couldn’t even manage the details of cutting the expenses he promised when he said he would cut the deficit in half, yet thinks he can and has managed the economy for the better...


27 posted on 09/09/2012 10:03:36 AM PDT by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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To: skinkinthegrass
i fear, b/c they're the Stupid Party...
recent history has taught us well....

It's the Slytherin party vs the Hufflepuff party.

We need a Gryffindor party.

28 posted on 09/09/2012 10:19:51 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1329 of our ObamaVacation from reality - Obama, a queer and present danger)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You know Obama probably actually believes the pablum that falls out of mouth...

Our debt problem has very little to do with not taxing the wealthy enough... It has mostly to do with GDP growth....and only 50 % of the population not paying federal taxes but instead getting tax credits...

Obama can not understand that because he only understand government and cyronism....


29 posted on 09/09/2012 10:25:20 AM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“You can’t reduce the deficit unless

YES WE CAN!


30 posted on 09/09/2012 10:48:15 AM PDT by ari-freedom
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To: SoFloFreeper

Title of article should be:

I’LL WORK WITH REPUBLICANS IF THEY DO EVERYTHING MY WAY.


31 posted on 09/09/2012 11:08:04 AM PDT by ShovelThemOut
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To: SoFloFreeper

The infamous January 2013 “tax bomb”. Ingredients: Cancel Bush Tax Cuts, cancel payroll Holiday taxes, add ObamaCare Tax, add Obama-Generational-Wealth-Theft Tax, add the Redistribution-of-Wealth Tax.....a BOOM that is truly a BUST!


32 posted on 09/09/2012 11:25:46 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obama can tax the “rich” until the cows come home; and even then it’ll be a drop in the bucket to his voracious appetite for TAX dollars to buy votes.


33 posted on 09/09/2012 11:33:28 AM PDT by Twinkie (In whose eyes a vile person is contemned. Ps. 15:4a)
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To: unixfox

How about we cut spending first-—starting with the 45 CZARS, who are not vetted nor confirmed by Congress.

They have staffs—they have rent—they have other overhead—but we don’t have a clue where the money is coming from to pay for their adventures.

We don’t know what they are supposed to be doing, nor IF they are doing such.

They are ONLY responsible to Obama-—ONLY!!!

How come no one is asking about all this expenditure for what I consider a ‘Shadow Government”?????

I think the whole thing is downright sinister.

I want answers. I want it dismantled.


34 posted on 09/09/2012 12:11:02 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: SoFloFreeper; All
When will the press follow up with, "IF THIS IS SO CRITICAL TO RECOVERY WHY DIDN'T YOU DO IT IN 2009 OR 2010?"

When!?

35 posted on 09/10/2012 2:44:03 AM PDT by newzjunkey (Election night is 58 days away.)
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