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Obama Offers to Cut Corporate Tax Rate to 28%
ny slimes ^ | 2/22/2012 | Jackie Calmes

Posted on 02/22/2012 3:07:35 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

President Obama will ask Congress to scrub the corporate tax code of dozens of loopholes and subsidies to reduce the top rate to 28 percent, down from 35 percent, while giving preferences to manufacturers that would set their maximum effective rate at 25 percent, a senior administration official said on Tuesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: corporatetaxrate; dividendtax; liar; obamaraisestaxes; taxes
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Suddenly the clown wants to cut taxes? Sure.
1 posted on 02/22/2012 3:07:40 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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shows obama as a crony. He’s give tax cuts to Warren Buffet since he pay corporate taxes, but increase individual income taxes which he pay very little so any increase here won’t effect him


2 posted on 02/22/2012 3:12:23 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: SoFloFreeper

Chief Big Ears speak with forked tongue.


3 posted on 02/22/2012 3:12:23 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: SoFloFreeper

Chief Big Ears speak with forked tongue.


4 posted on 02/22/2012 3:12:23 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
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To: SoFloFreeper

shows obama as a crony. He’s give tax cuts to Warren Buffet since he pay corporate taxes, but increase individual income taxes which he pay very little so any increase here won’t effect him


5 posted on 02/22/2012 3:13:20 AM PST by 4rcane
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To: SoFloFreeper

Chief Big Ears speak with forked tongue.


6 posted on 02/22/2012 3:13:28 AM PST by FormerACLUmember
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Isn’t he a little slow on this? The rate SHOULD have been offered back in 2009, when first he came into office.

Oh, right. It’s an election year. But where was he in the fall of 2010?

Well, yeah. Reality had not yet taken the undivided support of the House of Representatives away from him.

Incumbency only works in your favor if you have been doing something positive all along.


7 posted on 02/22/2012 3:16:01 AM PST by alloysteel (Are Democrats truly "better angels"? They are lousy stewards for America.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

There were never any new ideas about improving the economy, Democrats could have done this long ago, 2008.


8 posted on 02/22/2012 3:05:17 AM PST by Son House (The Economic Boom Heard Around The World => TEA Party 2012)
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You can change this to any rate you want....but within twelve months...various companies will approach their favorite Senator....to write tax code to give them new and fresh tax credits. So unless you want to vote on a standard tax rate for everyone (citizen and company), with no tax credits (a plain flat rate), then it’s all a big waste of time.


9 posted on 02/22/2012 3:10:36 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: SoFloFreeper
The concept of "tax cuts" seems to echo loudly through this proposal.

The way I see it, this isn't really about tax cuts at all. Oh, they are there, but that's not what this is about. This is just ramping up the fascism. Loopholes will disappear -- that means taxes go up. Subsidies disappear -- that means corp prices need to go up. Certain businesses will get "preferences" which will likely bankrupt their competition who don't get the "preferences". And the lucky companies will owe the government bigtime for that 25% tax rate.

Fascist economics is when the government helps the corporations as long as the corporations help the government. Corps that do not actively support the government get punished by the government.

Obama talks tax cuts, but he means more fascism.

10 posted on 02/22/2012 3:15:10 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
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The concept of "tax cuts" seems to echo loudly through this proposal.

The way I see it, this isn't really about tax cuts at all. Oh, they are there, but that's not what this is about. This is just ramping up the fascism. Loopholes will disappear -- that means taxes go up. Subsidies disappear -- that means corp prices need to go up. Certain businesses will get "preferences" which will likely bankrupt their competition who don't get the "preferences". And the lucky companies will owe the government bigtime for that 25% tax rate.

Fascist economics is when the government helps the corporations as long as the corporations help the government. Corps that do not actively support the government get punished by the government.

Obama talks tax cuts, but he means more fascism.

11 posted on 02/22/2012 3:16:52 AM PST by ClearCase_guy ("And the public gets what the public wants" -- The Jam)
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Wait. I thought the economy was all Bush’s fault because of those crazy Bush tax cuts. Obama is now proposing to go back to Bush’s economy?

Another ready-made Republican campaign commercial that will never see the light of day.


12 posted on 02/22/2012 3:24:25 AM PST by Big Giant Head
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He needs to get that unemployment rate below 8% then after he is reelected he can tax like hell.

No matter how much his evil henchmen cook the job statistics it ain't enough—he is THAT lousy a president.

13 posted on 02/22/2012 3:25:36 AM PST by Happy Rain ("Better add another wing to The White House cause the Santorum clan is coming.")
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Wait. I thought the economy was all Bush’s fault because of those crazy Bush tax cuts. Obama is now proposing to go back to Bush’s economy?

Another ready-made Republican campaign commercial that will never see the light of day.


14 posted on 02/22/2012 3:25:54 AM PST by Big Giant Head
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He needs to get that unemployment rate below 8% then after he is reelected he can tax like hell.

No matter how much his evil henchmen cook the job statistics it ain't enough—he is THAT lousy a president.

15 posted on 02/22/2012 3:27:22 AM PST by Happy Rain ("Better add another wing to The White House cause the Santorum clan is coming.")
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Panic setting in as the happy talk about 8.3 % unemployment sinks in the mud on the upcoming 9+%.


16 posted on 02/22/2012 3:34:01 AM PST by gusopol3
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To: SoFloFreeper

You LIE, Kenyan slime!!


17 posted on 02/22/2012 3:42:31 AM PST by Flintlock (Photo ID for ALL VOTING. Let our dead rest in peace.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

You LIE, Kenyan slime!!


18 posted on 02/22/2012 3:43:15 AM PST by Flintlock (Photo ID for ALL VOTING. Let our dead rest in peace.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Just heard from Stewart Varney on FOX that there is a catch to this.

Unfortunately, I missed his explanation.


19 posted on 02/22/2012 3:44:24 AM PST by dforest
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Ok. The GOP controlled House should pass it immediately with no strings attached and send it to the Senate.
20 posted on 02/22/2012 3:44:34 AM PST by tobyhill
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