You know how much he wanted to say it. He can't help himself.
Fine, Obama. Start with a 20% surtax on movie tickets, DVDs, CDs, movie and music downloads and rentals. Don’t you think Beyonce and Jay-Z should pay their fair share?
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SOBama didn’t build that wealth. But that won’t stop him from confiscating it for the purposes of redistributing it.
All those rich celebrities that celebrated Obama’s re-election and contributed to his campaign(Beyonce, Jay Z, Anne Hathaway, Halle Berry, Will Smith, the list goes on and on) let their taxes get raised..raise it to 70 percent just like in France. They love Socialism so much, they embraced Obama and kissed his ass, let their taxes skyrocket. I wont shed a tear for them
We just THOUGHT we saw arrogance the last four years. I guarantee that arrogance would wear off real quick if Boner called him and said “If you mean what you said then there’s no use in us meeting.” But, he won’t do that.
Why doesn’t he address the problem by making his entitlement class pay more?
Perhaps if he focused (again, like a laser), he could re create a America where everyone was at work again and the entitled could have trades, careers, jobs and a expectation of a greater future instead of being trapped on the welfare farm ....
Dear obama, nobama... what a POS!
...and, yet, the majority of people wanted the GOP to control the House (the purse strings)
I am nowhere near a rich American, but when the screwing comes down I am sure I will get my share.
When Obama finish’s we will all be screwed.
Cloward-Pliven
The majority always seems to agree with taking someone else’s hard-earned money for their own use. Taxpayers are slaves to the slothful deadbeats.
Scorched earth time.
Defund him Boehner, you RINO coward.
Or are you happy that he’s holding your head in the toilet?
This is sickening, especially knowing that surrender is virtually certain.
prepared to hear the definition of wealth change throughout the next 4 years,,for now it’s based on income,,,then it’s homeowners,,then it’s people who have a nest egg/retirement,,,then it’s people who own cars,,and people who own property,,,,,etc
Get ready
Yet, he'll meet Ahmadinejad with no preconditions.
Just wait until the punk POTUS decides to start confiscating IRA’s and 401K’s.
“I won.”
More specifically, noting that Thomas Jefferson was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Jefferson had noted that, in his time, the federal government was financed entirely by taxes paid by the rich on imported goods.
"The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied (emphasis added). … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings." --Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
In fact, noting that many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were wealthy, George Washington being a Bill Gates of his time, I surmise that the same rich men who drafted the Constitution, were willing to obligate not only themselves, but also their rich friends and other rich Americans to bear the entire burden of paying for the federal government that the delegates were establishing to operate.
The MAJOR exception to the historical information above is the following. As I have posted elsewhere, Justice John Marshall had officially clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues. In other words, Congress can lay taxes only for issues which it can justify under Section 8 of Article I, and minor federal goverment expenses mentioned in the Constitution.
In fact, I'm disturbed that regardless that Justice Roberts referenced Gibbons v. Ogden in the Obamacare opinion, he "overlooked" that Justice John Marshall had clarified in Gibbons that, not only is healthcare a 10th Amendmen protected state power issue, but that Marshall had also clarified in general that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphasis added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
So regardless that the federal government was once financed entirely from taxes that the rich paid for imported goods, the Supreme Court had also clarified that Congress is prohibited from laying taxes in the name of state power issues, issues which Congress cannot justify under Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution.
Note that the rich had a big incentive to use their influence to limit federal spending.
Finally, noting that most of the federal taxes that we are now paying are arguably illegal by Justice Marshall's clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes, there's no way that the rich today can uniquely bear the burden of paying for the feds to operate.
He's talking about the government - not the Nation. It seems that when I stopped spending wastefully, even with the same amount of money coming in, my net worth began to rise...