I think tha Obama may actually have sunk himself with "you didn't build that." We Americans like being free to "build that" without some government flunky saying we can't.:
http://www.youtube.com/​watch?v=W ... r_embedded
Obama may have had his tank moment
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GIThruster
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The point is that Obama seems to think that those who are successful, cannot take credit for their success.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK19WEwO ... creen&NR=1
This is just more class warfare and justifying the highest business taxes in the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rK19WEwO ... creen&NR=1
This is just more class warfare and justifying the highest business taxes in the world.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
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Probably a reference to Romney's deceptively-edited ad,Betruger wrote:broken link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Lr49t4-2b8
What Obama actually said,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=192oEC5TX_Q
... Obama is a tool of the plutocrats (how many wall streeters in his cabinet? Has he kissed a bankster's ass on TV today?) but the Romney ad is just BS.
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The occupier of the white house has made many statements which would support the interpretation of hostility towards the successful. Including the quip to Joe the plumber about spreading the wealth around, and open support for higher taxes on high income earners. He has never, to my knowledge, made a statement to the contrary.Skipjack wrote:in all fairness that is not quite what he said. He said that they did not get there completely on their own, which makes sense.The point is that Obama seems to think that those who are successful, cannot take credit for their success.
This should work:
http://www.americanthinker.com/video/20 ... _this.html
http://www.americanthinker.com/video/20 ... _this.html
Well, I dont interpret it that way. Also, Obama extended the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and they are still paying A LOT less taxes than they did before Reagan. So I cant really see any class warfare going on.The occupier of the white house has made many statements which would support the interpretation of hostility towards the successful. Including the quip to Joe the plumber about spreading the wealth around, and open support for higher taxes on high income earners. He has never, to my knowledge, made a statement to the contrary.
He is fairly vocal about wanting to end those tax cuts for individuals in the higher brackets.Skipjack wrote:Well, I dont interpret it that way. Also, Obama extended the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and they are still paying A LOT less taxes than they did before Reagan. So I cant really see any class warfare going on.The occupier of the white house has made many statements which would support the interpretation of hostility towards the successful. Including the quip to Joe the plumber about spreading the wealth around, and open support for higher taxes on high income earners. He has never, to my knowledge, made a statement to the contrary.
Actually not true, the rich payed a higher % of all taxes after Reagan, and they have been steadily paying more and more of the total since then. See table 6 in this link: http://taxfoundation.org/article/summar ... tax-data-0Skipjack wrote:Well, I dont interpret it that way. Also, Obama extended the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and they are still paying A LOT less taxes than they did before Reagan. So I cant really see any class warfare going on.The occupier of the white house has made many statements which would support the interpretation of hostility towards the successful. Including the quip to Joe the plumber about spreading the wealth around, and open support for higher taxes on high income earners. He has never, to my knowledge, made a statement to the contrary.
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The rhetoric coming from the Obama camp that most characterize as "class warfare" extends far beyond the tax issue, but taxes are almost always involved. Pitting labor against management, the average worker against those in leadership positions, those that pay very high taxes against those who pay none, is always useful when you're looking to gather votes. Obama panders to the fragility of democracy like this on a regular basis. If you tell the American public that they didn't really earn their places of leadership, you're directly attacking management, leaders, business owners in order to get the votes of the vast majority who are not leaders, managers and business owners. That's what class warfare is like in modern democracies. In the past, the same dynamic used a guillotine.Skipjack wrote:Well, I dont interpret it that way. Also, Obama extended the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and they are still paying A LOT less taxes than they did before Reagan. So I cant really see any class warfare going on.The occupier of the white house has made many statements which would support the interpretation of hostility towards the successful. Including the quip to Joe the plumber about spreading the wealth around, and open support for higher taxes on high income earners. He has never, to my knowledge, made a statement to the contrary.
"Courage is not just a virtue, but the form of every virtue at the testing point." C. S. Lewis
Comparing table 6 to table 5 for the top 1% and top 5% percentiles, that seems to be somewhat in line with the growth of income share. An imbalance that in itself will continue to drag down the economy until it's reversed one way or another.gregw wrote:Actually not true, the rich payed a higher % of all taxes after Reagan, and they have been steadily paying more and more of the total since then. See table 6 in this link: http://taxfoundation.org/article/summar ... tax-data-0Skipjack wrote:Well, I dont interpret it that way. Also, Obama extended the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and they are still paying A LOT less taxes than they did before Reagan. So I cant really see any class warfare going on.The occupier of the white house has made many statements which would support the interpretation of hostility towards the successful. Including the quip to Joe the plumber about spreading the wealth around, and open support for higher taxes on high income earners. He has never, to my knowledge, made a statement to the contrary.