particularly those making less than $250,000 a year--one of the many, many campaign promises Obama intends to break. The first tax on the poor he imposed was the cigarette tax. The European style value-added-tax is really an oxymoron, of course, because it doesn't add a thing--it just hides it. It's not the same as a flat tax, or a fair tax that conservatives and libertarians are suggesting as a replacement for the income tax, the death tax, or the capital gains tax. We get to keep all those and add more with a VAT. It just takes your money and creates another fund for government to waste. It's a tax at every stage of the production process.
And of course, it's all George W. Bush's fault. If it hadn't been for his tax cuts pulling us out of the last recession, there wouldn't have been huge sums of tax money funnelled into the government coffers creating a lust for more programs from both parties. . . Well, whatever the reason we need this, it certainly couldn't be Obama doubling the deficit or his hasty, ill-thought out health care take-over.
Did you hear him ridiculing the peaceful Tea Party gatherings on Tax Day? (But not the SEIU protesters who actually got arrested?) He can't imagine why they aren't grateful to have the future of their children and grandchildren stolen. Such ingrates!! Sixty-two percent of Americans call themselves conservatives. Some of them helped elect him. No more. Let the liberals act like the long abused wife who is afraid to stand up and say NO. I think conservatives have learned a lesson.
Obama insiders buzz over possible Value-Added Tax
Friday, April 16, 2010
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I'm trying to think if another president has ridiculed, smirked at, or taunted any segment of the American people before Obama. I don't remember if Nixon even talked about the war protesters the way Obama tsk-tsks the tax protesters. Says a lot about his attitude toward the little people. Right up there with Chuck "Barney Frank without the slobbering" Schumer's "chattering classes."
wv: boile - what Obama does to my blood
The Republicans might have the biggest audiences for their talk shows, but the Democrats have the biggest bully pulpit for whining and criticizing past administrations. I think it is embarrassing (for Obama) and shows no class. Really so third world.
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