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Obama's agenda has been almost exclusively devoted to taking money from "the rich" (that's almost anyone with a successful business and a payroll), and using it to give goodies to everyone else. And he admitted even before he became President, that his goal was to "spread the wealth around".
But now that people are beginning to realize what he's doing - and an election is just around the corner - Obama is now practicing some classic Orwellian doublethink. Though his actions and goals clearly haven't changed, suddenly now he's NOT trying to "redistribute wealth"... so he tells us this week.
Nothing has changed but the words. But somehow he expects us to believe him. And just forget about the last four years.
President Obama, who famously called for tax increases on the wealthy to "spread the wealth around," denied today that his tax increases on the rich are an attempt to "redistribute wealth."
"So these investments -- in things like education and research and health care -- they haven't been made as some grand scheme to redistribute wealth from one group to another," the president said today at Florida Atlantic University. "This is not some socialist dream," Obama added, as he called for tax increases on millionaires today to pay for those investments.
When he advocated the same plan in 2008, though, Obama described this "spread the wealth around" policy. "I’m gonna cut taxes a little bit more for the folks who are most in need and for the 5 percent of the folks who are doing very well – even though they’ve been working hard and I appreciate that – I just want to make sure they’re paying a little bit more in order to pay for those other tax cuts," he told Samuel Wurzelbacher (aka Joe the Plumber), who is now running for Congress.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
Obama's agenda has been almost exclusively devoted to taking money from "the rich" (that's almost anyone with a successful business and a payroll), and using it to give goodies to everyone else. And he admitted even before he became President, that his goal was to "spread the wealth around".
But now that people are beginning to realize what he's doing - and an election is just around the corner - Obama is now practicing some classic Orwellian doublethink. Though his actions and goals clearly haven't changed, suddenly now he's NOT trying to "redistribute wealth"... so he tells us this week.
Nothing has changed but the words. But somehow he expects us to believe him. And just forget about the last four years.
President Obama, who famously called for tax increases on the wealthy to "spread the wealth around," denied today that his tax increases on the rich are an attempt to "redistribute wealth."
"So these investments -- in things like education and research and health care -- they haven't been made as some grand scheme to redistribute wealth from one group to another," the president said today at Florida Atlantic University. "This is not some socialist dream," Obama added, as he called for tax increases on millionaires today to pay for those investments.
When he advocated the same plan in 2008, though, Obama described this "spread the wealth around" policy. "I’m gonna cut taxes a little bit more for the folks who are most in need and for the 5 percent of the folks who are doing very well – even though they’ve been working hard and I appreciate that – I just want to make sure they’re paying a little bit more in order to pay for those other tax cuts," he told Samuel Wurzelbacher (aka Joe the Plumber), who is now running for Congress.
(Full text of the article can be read at the above URL)
Believing Obama is a fool's errand. A bigger bag of trash never sat at the desk in the oval office.
I think the Pres and Dems are asking those that take 43-45% of the wealth out of the Economy, should contribute something, at least close to that percentage, for running the business of the Nation.
$3 Billion dollars of tax revenue....annually.....which will be spent in less than 24 hours. Someone, anyone, tell me what $3B will pay for in America? It won't build a cross-country or cross-state highway. It won't buy every child a set of encyclopedias. It won't retrofit a massive amount of houses for the disabled. (None of which he has proposed. What will he do with the money?)
In other words, the impact will be so miniscule that we'd never even know that an additional $3B was collected.
Barack Obama thinks you're stupid. He only wants you to hear "tax on millionaires" so that he can collect your vote. That's his only purpose.
What "reinvestment" in education ? What taxes are going to be collected for education ?
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