Posted on 05/30/2007 2:55:09 AM PDT by Baladas
The Democratic presidential candidates want to raise your taxes.
Most of them aren't exactly advertising that fact when they talk about their plans for health care, the environment and education.
Sen, Barack Obama, D-Ill., became the latest candidate to call for higher taxes Tuesday, when he unveiled his plan for universal health coverage. He is calling for the tax cuts pushed by President Bush to expire in 2010 for upper-income earners -- an effective tax hike for more than 1 million taxpayers -- and is proposing a new tax on small businesses that don't provide health care to their employees.
"We now face an opportunity -- and an obligation -- to turn the page on the failed politics of yesterday's health care debates," Obama said in unveiling his health care plan in Iowa. "To help pay for this, we will ask all but the smallest businesses who don't make a meaningful contribution today to the health coverage of their employees to do so by supporting this new plan. And we will allow the temporary Bush tax cut for the wealthiest Americans to expire."
Obama joins former North Carolina Democratic Sen. John Edwards in calling for higher taxes to help fix the nation's health care woes. Edwards wants to roll back the Bush tax cuts for Americans making more than $200,000 a year, and said he would also consider raising capital gains rates and Social Security taxes.
In addition, Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., is proposing a "carbon tax" that would be assessed on businesses based on how much pollution they generate, with the money to be funneled into a trust fund for renewable energy technologies.
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Democrats raise taxes? I’m shocked!!!!
OK, Barry, take a good look at the State of New York. Medicaid is bleeding this state dry and the corruption and waste is unfathomable. Thus, if we elect to go with your prescription, the common hard working shlub will be toast and his/her savings and investments taken from him/her...
OH WAIT, THAT’S PRECICELY WHAT HILLARY IS TALKING ABOUT!
The TaxocRats.
good move.....
Did you notice as the “news” was drooling on Obama and Hillary last night that Hillary was saying how the “rich” were the only one benefiting from the Bush tax cuts? She wants a revenue “sharing” for us all. Why not just repeat “From each according to his ability to each according to his need”? That is EXACTLY what she meant.
” — and is proposing a new tax on small businesses that don’t provide health care to their employees.”
Hmm.. And they hire illegals why?
They’re not higher taxes. They’re “investments!”
Instead of taxing the rich, how about a 25% excise tax on legal fees.
Go for it, dems. Wave the tax-increase banner high.
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