Category Archives: Taxes

26 Mar

Supreme Court Skeptical On Obama’s Defense Of ObamaCare

Even some of the liberal judges appear skeptical about Obama’s defense of ObamaCare:

On the first day of oral arguments in the case challenging President Obama’s national health care law, justices seemed skeptical that the individual mandate should be considered a tax — one of the main consitutional defenses being offered for the law.

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Posted in Barack Obama, Constitution, Health Care, Law, ObamaCare Results, Obamanomics, Politics, POWER GRAB!, Socialism, Socialized Health Care, Supreme Court, Taxes | 22 Comments | 845 views
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17 Mar

Obama: Lower Gas Prices By Taxing Big Oil More

Here comes Obama The Blamer. Blame Bush, Blame oil companies:

In his weekly address to the nation Saturday, Obama sought to redirect consumers’ anger with his administration to anger with Congress for allowing companies like Exxon Mobil and Chevron to receive $4 billion from the federal government every year.

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Posted in Barack Obama, Economy, Energy, Obamanomics, Oil, Politics, Taxes | 59 Comments | 781 views
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27 Feb

Polls Show People Want Lower Tax Rates & Believe Insurance Mandate Is Unconstitutional

Couple interesting polls out to share. The first is this one from The Hill in which they asked likely voters what they believed would be a good tax rate for the rich.

Three-quarters of likely voters believe the nation’s top earners should pay lower, not higher, tax rates, according to a new poll for The Hill.

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Posted in Barack Obama, Class Warfare, Constitution, Deception and Lies, Health Care, Law, ObamaCare Results, Obamanomics, Politics, polls, POWER GRAB!, Socialism, Socialized Health Care, Taxes | 14 Comments | 291 views
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21 Feb

Anyone else remember when tax cuts didn’t do anything for the economy? [Reader Post]

Krugman 2008

Bush tax cut mythology

As the debate turns to economic stimulus, we’re starting to hear this: “Bush realized that the economy needed help, so he asked Congress to enact tax cuts to provide stimulus. And this turned the economy around.”

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Posted in Barack Obama, Economy, Obamanomics, Politics, Taxes, WtF? | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 18 Comments | 419 views
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15 Feb

They Can’t Even Keep Their Stories Straight….Obama’s Budget Director: “ObamaCare Not A Tax”

Talk about walking head first into a trap. This video clip would be so much fun to watch over and over again if the consequences of ObamaCare weren’t so real.

So here we have Obama’s budget director telling Congress that no, ObamaCare isn’t a tax. But then we have the DOJ arguing to the Supreme Court that yes, it is a tax. Continue reading

Posted in Barack Obama, Constitution, Economy, ObamaCare Results, Obamanomics, Politics, POWER GRAB!, Socialism, Socialized Health Care, Taxes | 14 Comments | 334 views
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8 Feb

Obama smacks home buyers with a stealth tax [Reader Post]

John Boehner can take a hit on this one too. You know that wonderful payroll tax cut? Guess who’s going to pay for it?

Just before Christmas, American workers got a rare gift from Washington politicians – the current payroll tax cut would be extended for two more months.

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Posted in Deception and Lies, Economy, John Boehner, Politics, Taxes | Tagged , , , , , , , | 7 Comments | 654 views
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7 Feb

Economics for Politicians Chapter Eight – Do You Know What an Unfunded Liability Is? It’s Why You Belong in Jail! [Reader Post]

To most of us who live outside of the beltway or state capitols the concept of making outrageous financial promises that can never be kept sounds absolutely insane, and sadly for you this is just basic strategy to win an election. Continue reading

Posted in Economy, Politics, Socialism, Taxes | 8 Comments | 329 views
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5 Feb

Barack Obama: Raising taxes for Christ [Reader Post]

Barack Obama: On the eighth day, God said “raise taxes”

President Barack Obama has been taking lumps from Republicans for years over his support for Wall Street and health care reform, but today at the National Prayer Breakfast he claimed support from on high to defend two of his most controversial legislative achievements.

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Posted in Barack Obama, Daily Distraction, Economy, Liberal Idiots, Politics, Taxes, WtF? | Tagged , , , , | 52 Comments | 459 views
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4 Feb

Romney’s 9% [Reader Post]

Now that the Florida Primary is over and we have seen how effective a carpet bombing campaign of negative ads can be, I thought it would be interesting to see exactly who provided the ammunition to each of the combatants. By ammunition I mean money, lots of money. I expected to see what we all knew to be true; Romney has the run of a well-stocked military base’s ammo dump, Newt Gingrich is a kid in the back yard who found his dads stash of illegal firecrackers. Continue reading

Posted in Economy, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Politics, Taxes | 26 Comments | 569 views
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2 Feb

Food Stamp President [Reader Post]

Today, I received an email from a very liberal Obama supporter which contained a reference to the following link:

Dishonest Fox Chart: Food Stamps Edition

This article portrays Fox News and Newt Gingrich as being dishonest about the number of SNAP (food stamps, for those of you in Rio Linda) recipients that have been added to the rolls since Obama became “The Precadent”. Continue reading

Posted in Barack Obama, Economy, Politics, Taxes | 47 Comments | 683 views
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