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Day By Day by Chris Muir October 17, 2008 – Blockage
Day By Day by Chris MuirChris, Obama has actually stated lied to American voters that he would lower taxes for 95 per cent of us. This is referred to as the 95 per cent illusion.One of Barack Obama’s most potent campaign claims is that he’ll cut taxes for no less than 95% of “working families.” He’s even promising to cut taxes enough that the government’s tax share of GDP will be no more than 18.2% — which is lower than it is today.
It’s a clever pitch, because it lets him pose as a middle-class tax cutter while disguising that he’s also proposing one of the largest tax increases ever on the other 5%. But how does he conjure this miracle, especially since more than a third of all Americans already pay no income taxes at all? There are several sleights of hand, but the most creative is to redefine the meaning of “tax cut.”
For the Obama Democrats, a tax cut is no longer letting you keep more of what you earn. In their lexicon, a tax cut includes tens of billions of dollars in government handouts that are disguised by the phrase “tax credit.” Mr. Obama is proposing to create or expand no fewer than seven such credits for individuals:….
Read all of the piece and look at this graph:
Barack Obama’s tax plan for most middle income two worker families would impose higher marginal tax rates with Obama’s tax credits vanishing 40 per cent for each additional dollar earned over $40,000. Thus, there will be disincentives for American’s to either work harder or earn more.
Didn’t we have this argument in the 1980’s with Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter? And, Reagan won the argument about higher marginal tax rates, didn’t he?
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The Obama LEFT Goes After Joe the Plumber
Joe the Plumber asks Barack Obama a question last SundayEd Morrissey has a SAD BUT TRUE piece up about lessons we should all learn about Joe The Plumber and today’s LEFT plus the LEFT-WING IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA media.
- Thou shalt not offend The One by asking him a question. Of any kind.
- Anyone who questions The One will have to undergo a public pillorying of a kind unseen since the Red Scare, or perhaps the Inquisition.
- The Tanning-Bed Media will happily participate in any inquisition, as long as it keeps them from investigating irrelevant issues like Obama’s ties to the Chicago Machine, William Ayers, ACORN, or his record on protecting infanticide.
They examined, scrutinized, investigated every aspect of Joe Wurzelbacher’s life and then pilloried him with some of the same intense smears with which they hit Sarah Palin.
And, for what?
Asking Barack Obama a question in a random occurrence that OBAMA chose himself.
Team Obama knows that their candidate looked like a Marxist, talked like a Marxist and well exposed himself as a redistributionist Marxist which Obama was closely hiding from the American voters. This is not the image the Democrats wish to project to persuadable independent and undecided voters who continue to believe in capitalism and the American Dream.
So, SMEAR Joe the Plumber.
Flap agrees with Ed – please folks on the LEFT keep this story in the news for at least another week. The bloom has come off the Obama rose and the more transparency the better – particularly for those nasty tax increases and redistributionist welfare checks coming to a mailbox near you.
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Joe The Plumber – Now a New McCain Ad
Team McCain’s latest television ad: Joe The PlumberJoe the Plumber who burst onto the scene in last night’s debate is now the subject of Team McCain’s latest television ad.
The Script:
JOHN
MCCAIN: I’m John McCain
and I approve this message.ANNCR:
Americans are
catching…JOE
WURZELBACHER: Your new tax
plan is going to tax me more.BARACK
OBAMA: It’s not that I
want to punish your success. … I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s
good for everybody.ANNCR:
Everybody?Leading papers
call Obama’s taxes “welfare” … “government handouts”.Obama raises
taxes on seniors, hard working families to give “welfare” to those who pay none.Just as you
suspected, Obama’s not truthful on taxes.The left is going wild trying to smear good ol’ Joe. The New York Times complains that his question to Obama is flawed. WTF?
Chances of a successful slime job because he dared question “The One?”
Slim and none.
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The Message of Joe the Plumber
“Joe the Plumber” is Joe Wurzelbacher of Toledo, Ohio, his comments on the last Presidential debate.Will this be the “straight talk” message for John McCain that will propel him into the White house?
And, isn’t it interesting that the LEFT is already setting out to smear Joe?
Ben Smith adjusts an earlier report that indicated that Ohio plumber Joe Wurzelbacher isn’t registered to vote – turns out Joe is his middle name and he’s in there as “Worzelbacher,” not “Wurzelbacher.”
The “Joe the Plumber” message on taxes on small business is articulated by Joe in this ABC Good Morning America interview:
ABC’s “Good Morning America”
October 16, 2008ABC’s Diane Sawyer: “Well I just want to ask you now about the issue that was raised because it’s been a little confusing to me as I tried to sort it out here. To get straight here, you’re not taking home $250,000 now, am I right?”
Joe Wurzelbacher: “No. No. Not even close.”
Sawyer: “And you were you asking — about the prospect, the hope that someday you would make $250,000, and you were saying you didn’t want that to be taxed?”
Wurzelbacher: “Well, exactly. Exactly. I mean not that I don’t want to be taxed. You have to be taxed. But to — just because you work a little harder to have a little bit more money taken from you, I mean, that’s scary. You know as opposed to other people. I worked hard for it. Why should I be taxed more than other people?”
Sawyer: “Well if people making $250,000 should not be taxed additionally — by the way, it’s 3% from 36% to 39% under Senator Obama’s plan. If those people should not be taxed additionally, even though they’re in the top 5% of America, what about people who make $1 million? Or $5 million?”
Wurzelbacher: “Well, I mean, quite honestly, why should they be penalized for being successful. I mean, that’s what you’re telling me. That’s what it sounds like you’re saying. That’s wrong. Because you’re successful, you have to pay more than everybody else? We all live in this country. It’s a basic right. And Obama wants to take that basic right and penalize me for it, is what it comes down to. That’s a very socialist view and it’s incredibly wrong. I mean, $250,000 now. What if he decides, well you know $150,000, you’re pretty rich too. Let’s go ahead and lower it again. You know it’s a slippery slope. When’s it going to stop?”
WILL “Joe the Plumber” be the start of another John McCain comeback?
Probably
Mac has nine lives.
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