President Obama said in his not quite State of the Union address that Americans earning less than $250,000 would pay "not one dime" in new taxes.
Here's his OMB Director admitting Obama's proposed cap & trade problem is a tax on Americans consuming energy (which last time I checked, means just about all of us):
P.S. OMB (The Office of Management & Budget) does more to actually run the Executive Branch than most people realize; almost everything the Departments and agencies under the President do in terms of policy making and budget has to be run through OMB.
Posted by Eric Earling at March 01, 2009 01:02 PM | Email ThisSIDEBAR: I've pretty much stopped responding to far-left trolls; life is too short and too much worthwhile stuff to do instead of wasting time on that. But I make a relatively rare exception to comment on a statement @ #3:
''Solve problems = tax bad behavior + reward good behavior''
Surely this is a classic example of the routine and automatic assumption by left-wing proponents of ever-bigger and more intrusive government; i.e.:
GOVERNMENT (as defined, structured, and run by the far-left) should make all decisions about what constitutes ''bad behavior'' and ''good behavior''....
Ancient Rome started out as a Republic too....
As the Rule of Law becomes shaken and weaken, the Criminal element will take full advantage, leaving victims, death and destruction in its wake. It will get so bad that violence will not be limited to the common people. People in high office and of Government, the main perpetrators of such strife and dissent will also, be brought into the fray. Assassinations will not be too uncommon.
I certainly pray to GOD that this scenario does not occur but, the future does not look good.
So energy consumption in and of itself is now "bad behavior"? Is good behavior living like Little House on the Prairie?
Posted by: Michael H on March 1, 2009 03:07 PMA lot of traditional Democratic voters and young people brainwashed by the lefts' educational/media machine voted for Obama without a clue who he really was. They certainly weren't about to believe us "right wing extremists" who tried to tell them that he was a socialist.
There's plenty of buyer's remorse out there already, particularly among older traditionally Democratic voters,(the ones who voted for JFK,and Johnson). The younger ones will be coming around soon once they start paying higher prices for everything and finding out that there won't be any jobs waiting for them when they graduate.
The "energy tax" is of course another of the lefts' grand schemes to get us to live the way they want us to. When the suckers that voted for him realize that means life becomes more inconvenient and expensive they'll come over to the Republican side in droves. If Republicans can avoid blowing the opportunity.
Screw Obama....
Posted by: Chris N on March 1, 2009 03:59 PMObama could have given the market a shot in the arm with a capital gains cut and he probably knew it. He really doesn't want the market to improve until he can use fear to pass as many socialist programs as he can.
I've said here before that I think Obama has made a monstrous miscalulation by ramming through his agenda at warp speed. He has no hope of bringing enough Republicans along so he can claim bi-partisan failure. It will be his alone, and even the duped that voted for him in 2008 will realize it.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 1, 2009 04:11 PMObama is being very truthful.
We would pay "not one dime" - will pay many hundreds and perhaps thousands of dimes in new taxes, but Obama is safe, for no one can claim he was wrong about the single dime.
Posted by: SouthernRoots on March 1, 2009 04:21 PMOther than that...
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 1, 2009 05:45 PMHowever, maybe that's the reason my wife is buying me a shotgun for my birthday.
Posted by: Bill Cruchon on March 1, 2009 05:54 PMThe opposition needs to make a continuous loud and reverberating noise about the gigantic fraud the cap and trade and green energy debate is being framed as. The politicians bought and paid for by Greenpeace, etc are bald face liars and the President is on board with them.
And this energy tax, no $250,000 cap on that tax.
How about your property tax hikes this year, no $250,000 cap on those massive increases.
And then there is Gregoire and her gang of thieves, there will be no $250,000 cap on those tax hikes.
How about the increases in capital gain taxes, and every other tax these democrats can find.
Obama is a Bald faced liar when he said no tax payer earning less than $250,000 would pay one more dime in taxes.
What if my wife and I chose to work ourselves to the bone and each hold two jobs and manage to get our income up to the limit that Pres Obama feels is "wealthy". Why are we getting punished for working harder and choosing to use our free time at another job?
Why are the tax tables based on one set of numbers even though the cost of living varies drastically across different areas of the country? $250K for someone living in Louisiana is far different than the $250K earned by someone in San Francisco or Manhattan, yet they are taxed the same.
