Or are the “rich” the only ones who have any responsibility to foot the bill for Obama’s big plans?

Put aside for a moment the fact that Obama and Biden’s definition of “rich” has slowly crept down from those who make $300,000 to $250,000 to $200,000 to $150,000.
And Friday, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, an Obama campaign surrogate, declared the figure to be $120,000. If Obama and Biden are elected who knows how low the figure will be by the time they are inaugurated?

Obama promised to “spread the wealth” and soak the rich while promising an array of goodies to 95% of Americans whether they pay income taxes or not. But there is a contradiction here. Readers will recall that Joe Biden said it’s “patriotic” to pay higher taxes. Today, Obama said that “selfishness” motivated those who oppose the higher taxes necessary to fuel his socialist revolution.

Are Obama and Biden suggesting that those they exempt from any responsibility to pay for Obama’s massive government expansion are selfish and unpatriotic?

How long will it be before the middle class is called on to make the same patriotic sacrifice?



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bill-tb
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Bill Richardson brought it down to $120k this AM. The problem with alie is it’s hard to keep the liars in sync.

You make a good point.

October 31st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Craig
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That’s a good one, Mike… lol

But who cares what those idiots say, they don’t know what the hell they are talking about, anyways. Obama thinks that the U.S. has 57 States; he thinks that Iran is a small country and a small threat; he thinks they speak Arab, etc. Biden is a clown, he probably thinks he is another Messiah like Obama, he asked a guy in a wheel chair to stand-up… lol

McCain/Palin will win this election.

October 31st, 2008 at 2:57 pm
 3Reply to this comment  

Thanks Bill… I forgot about that and have made an addition.

October 31st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Hard Right
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Payink taxes for betterment of proletariat ees good, Da?

October 31st, 2008 at 3:24 pm
AZDREAMER
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Have yet to hear whether these numbers are per person or jont (married filing jointly). If joint, even us bitter clingers in small-town PA are going to get wacked! Regardless of the number, the 5% of Americans who will see a tax increase is no where sufficient to cover the increase in spending and tax cuts for the “middle-class.” Very fuzzy math.

October 31st, 2008 at 3:34 pm
Scrapiron
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The only tax cut I’ve seen ,and the middle class has seen in my lifetime came from GWB when he gave ‘everyone’ a tax cut and took 40% of the workers (low income) off the taxrolls. I’m retired, still pay taxes, both state and Federal every year and have since 1959, never missed one year. I also have 100% medical care, and a V.A. approved disability, but haven’t been to a doctor since 1995. Have been a volunteer firefighter for 14 years and an EMT for 8. Guess what, if Hussein is elected I retire from all public service and just to cost the taxpayers I’ll start going to the Dr monthly. If everyone else is going to be on the dole of the rich, why not me also? There must be some other social programs I can sign up for. Never been on welfare or drawn an unemployment check. Time for some of the free goodies those who never worked are getting. I highly recommend everyone check with a career welfare rider, they know all the in’s and out’s of getting freebie’s. The young people can do like the black guy in town. He went to college long enough to be a Dr, a Lawyer and an indian chief with no intention of of ever working. We sent kids to him, not a college employee, to determine how to get on the free programs. He knew and used them all and he helped several.

October 31st, 2008 at 4:32 pm
 7Reply to this comment  

Right On. Right On. Right On!

October 31st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
 8Reply to this comment  

ScrapIron: we should all make sure to sign up for every Obama goodie and take the money we save and donate it to the next hardcore conservative victory fund.

October 31st, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Joe the Politician
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Socialist hardcore conservative victory fund!

Joe the Politician 2012

October 31st, 2008 at 9:48 pm
anonymous
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You know that Bush’s socialist policy to bail out the mega bonus CEO buddies of his that have raped the US public is a more sound plan!

November 1st, 2008 at 5:34 am
Missy
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@anonymous:

Oh yeah, the Bush CEO buddies:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121357125417575867.html

BTW, Judicial Watch is investigating the $100,000 sweet heart deal Obama also got. Man he had quite a bit of help getting into that Hyde Park mansion, didn’t he? Rezko, Fannie Mae, wonder if ACORN registered him to vote.

November 1st, 2008 at 7:05 am
Missy
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How long do you think it will take him to go back to this $97,000 bracket he floated in 2007?

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3638710&page=1

Remember when Clinton retroactively increased SS taxes? One of our employees was about to retire but chose not to because of the tax hike. We were going to hire two new employees with full benefits to replace him, but, held off even hiring one at the time. Good thing it worked out that way we later realized.

I found this at No Quarter, interesting, eh?

“Hey bots, who work for people like me, welcome to your future.

I am posting this without comment. You may, of course, add yours.

Dear Fellow Business Owners:

As a Business owner who employs 30 people, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barack Obama will be our next President and that my Taxes and Fees will go up in a BIG way. To compensate for these increases, I figure that the Customer will have to see an increase in my fees to them of about 8%. I will also have to lay off 6 of my employees. This really bothered me as I believe we are family here and didn’t know how to choose who will have to go. So, this is what I did.

I strolled through the parking lot and found 8 Obama bumper stickers on my employees’ cars. I have decided these folks will be the first to be laid off. I can’t think of another fair way to approach this problem. If you have a better idea, let me know. I am sending this letter to all Business owners that I know.

Sincerely
****
**** Corp.”

http://www.noquarter.net/blog/11/01/seems-fair-to-me/

November 1st, 2008 at 7:56 am
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Good find Missy.

I don’t suppose people remember that Bill Clinton also promised a middle class tax cut and dropped that promise soon after getting into the White House.

Anyone who thinks Obama will keep his word hasn’t been paying attention to all the promises he’s already backed out of.

I like the idea about small businesses firing the Obama workers first. Surely, those workers can understand why it’s important for them to make the sacrifice.

Unless of course if they are selfish and unpatriotic.

November 1st, 2008 at 8:22 am
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@Missy:

Obama cannot seem to find the floor when defining “middle class”.

Roll the tape:

November 1st, 2008 at 11:30 am
Missy
 15Reply to this comment  

Scary tape Aye.

A trillion dollar tax increase and 6% Of fellow Americans making $97,000 and over should pay for it on top of all the other hits listed at the end of the video. How is this going to work out?…. even Hillary knew better.

November 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
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That is TOO good.

I’ll put it up on the main page!

November 1st, 2008 at 6:12 pm

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