Posted on 12/12/2012 1:05:36 PM PST by wac3rd
President Obama hit the road this week to build national support for increasing taxes on wealthy Americans. On Monday the president addressed autoworkers in Redford, Mich., outlining his budget proposal and explaining why higher tax rates were necessary at this critical juncture.
"Our economic success has never come from the top down," Obama said. "It comes from the middle out; it comes from the bottom up."
Raising taxes on the top 2% of U.S. households has been a controversial topic as the "fiscal cliff" negotiations drag on in Washington. The "cliff" refers to the billions of dollars in spending cuts and tax increases that are scheduled to take effect early next year. Obama has not relented on his campaign pledge to let the Bush-era tax cuts expire for individuals earning at least $200,000 a year ($250,000 for families). Obama says his proposal would not affect the tax rates of 98% of Americans and his recommended tax hikes on the rich would not touch the first $250,000 of income.
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"If you're concerned about deficits, you need to bring in more money," he says. The economy may be too "delicate" to let the Bush tax cuts expire for lower income individuals right now Johnston concedes, but "as the economy gets stronger, there will need to be adjustments."
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Most Democrats believe this.
Okay, everyone at the top close your business. Let’s see the economic miracle of the bottom. Let’s see that Balance Sheet. Assets = 0 Liabilities = the skies the limit.
It REALLY burns me up to think of all the time I wasted in my microeconomics classes learning the Theory of the Firm and in my macroeconomics classes learning about domestic and international fiscal and monetary policies. If I had been thinking ahead, I would have taken “Economics from the Middle Out” in undergrad and “Economics from the Bottom Up” in Grad School. Little did I know those once-obscure economic theories would one day be mainstreamed by the nation’s Intellectual in Chief. As the wise man once said, “Too soon old, too late smart.”
If the government dumping a trillion dollars in “stimulus” isn’t trying to build the economy “from the top down”, what is it?
And they’ll make your teeth 30% whiter and get rid of those ugly bathtub stains...
Higher taxes on small business owners is like ‘Arab Spring’. It’s not what the Socialists say it is.. It’s just part of 0bama’s overall strategy of killing the private sector by overburdening them (including 0bamacare) into nonexistence. 0bama’s CHANGE is a 100% government-operated nation where everyone is an employee of the government.
The Democrats and 0bama also say that the Great Recession was caused by Republican tax cuts for the rich. The fact that the gubmint forced banks to give mortgages to dead beats with bad credit had nothing to do with it. Most people believe it and the Republicans sit on their asses and don’t respond.
You’re right!
But every time I say this to myself, one of them steps up to a mike or answers a ‘journalist’ with an even more idiotic statement.
Liberalism has been a dead letter for too long and waiting for Americans to wise up is becoming more dangerous than ever!
There is real and certain danger in permitting people with such unworkable and ruinous ideas to have power and authority in this country…. The perfect example of this is the failure of the ‘European Union’ that is staring us in the face.
It’s one degree of idiocy to say what these Liberals say but it is another level altogether when you look at such incontrovertible and glaring examples of failure and still deny they exist!
Its official name was the “Community Reinvestment Act.” Banks were blackmailed. Communities destroyed. No one reinvested in anything.
...so if the government took 100% of our money and property, we can all live like Bill Gates?
I’m sorry - that logic doesn’t follow....
Debt and taxes, taxes and debt... the Democrat’s policy ‘for the children’.
This B.S. isn’t exactly going to fly given today’s news from the Fed:
“Fed Lowers Growth Forecast; Sees
Jobless Rate Above 6.5% Until 2015”
That would be almost the END of his second term. The voters are total idiots. Seems to me the House has a pretty good argument for staying the course and not caving in to the rat thieves.
0BAMA CAUSED THE HOUSING CRISIS:
Subprime Bubble: Obama ‘Vampire Socialism’ Built It
Posted 09/04/2012 06:50 PM ET
Housing Crisis: Previously unpublished court documents reveal that as a young lawyer from Chicago, President Obama’s lawsuit against big banks started inflating the housing bubble that created the mess he says he inherited.
We have often written that the true roots of our current economic crisis lay in the excesses of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act as redefined under the Clinton administration. We have explained how community outreach by banks, under pressure from groups such as Acorn, was transformed into the mandatory credit issuance based not of creditworthiness, but on the basis of “fairness.”
“Redlining,” the activists argued, was the antithesis of the American dream of owning a home. Moreover, they insisted, everyone had the “right” to own a home. So the banks were forced to issue loans to people who couldn’t afford to pay them back. The banking system was forced to inflate a housing bubble that set us up for a near-catastrophic economic collapse.
This did not occur by accident, but by design at the hands of disciples of the Cloward-Piven strategy of overwhelming the system, causing it to collapse, then to be replaced by a worker’s paradise of redistributed income with the individual totally subservient to the greater good.
Presidential candidate Barack Obama called it the “fundamental transformation” of America, and he was there when the seeds of collapse were planted.
The Daily Caller has obtained and analyzed previously unpublished court documents relating to a class-action lawsuit filed in 1995 by young attorney Barack Obama on behalf of three lead plaintiffs and 180 subsidiary plaintiffs against Citibank for alleged discrimination in lending practices.
As the Daily Caller relates, “Obama’s lawsuit was one element of a national ‘anti-redlining’ campaign led by Chicago’s progressive groups, who argued that banks unfairly refused to lend money to people living within so-called ‘red lines’ around African-American communities.”
The discrimination lawsuit was initiated by Chicago progressive activist Fay Clayton in 1994. Obama’s employer, lawyer Judson Miner, joined with Clayton to file a class-action lawsuit a year later. Obama later introduced himself to Clayton as an “associate” on the case.
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Citibank would settle the case, with $950,000 going to the lawyers, including Obama. But it gave only $20,000 to each of the three named plaintiffs, and included $360,000 in benefits to be divided among the 183 other clients. Their portion of the settlement was not in cash, but in coupons. About half of the 186 African-American clients in Obama’s lawsuit have since gone bankrupt or received foreclosure notices.
According to a 1998 Chicago Sun-Times report, Obama claimed $23,000 in billable hours for his role in the lawsuit. He would also garner large campaign donations from the mortgage industry, including at least $126,349 between 1989 and 2004, in cash, not coupons.
That settlement was only the tip of the iceberg. When Citibank, in April 1998, sought federal approval for a merger with Travelers Group, it only got OK from the Clinton administration progressives after it promised in May to provide $115 billion for anti-redlining loans. Anti-redlining promises made by other financial institutions added up to $600 billion between 1993 and 1998, according to a 2000 Treasury Department report.
We have heard a lot about the “vampire capitalism” of Bain Capital and its former chief, Mitt Romney. We have heard next to nothing about the “vampire socialism” of Barack Obama in helping to plant the seeds of economic collapse that he would exploit to his own political benefit later.
It was the progressive dreams of Barack Obama that would crash the nation’s economy in 2008, wipe out at least $4 trillion in equity and help keep the unemployment rate above 8% for four years.
As president, Obama would blame his predecessor, George W. Bush, and Wall Street. But before the housing market finally collapsed, it was a young lawyer named Barack Obama who helped put the wrecking ball in motion.
and this is why we have to bite the bullet and give this incompentent ideologue what he asks for- higher taxes on the
productive
and make him OWN the results (I know, good luck with that, no one in his life ever made him own anything he said or did, if it worked out he boasted about it, if it failed he blamed someone else)
Otherwise things will never change, never
Well tax rates have been higher and the economy was doing well. Obviously the jobs economy is not driven by tax rates. What then? Sales volume. The more you sell, the more you hire. Conservatives should split from Republicans on the tax issue and take a more family middle class position.
Why, just the other day I was talking to Billy...you know, the kid that bags my groceries, and he was saying that he was going to create a hundred jobs all by himself.
And, don't EVEN get me started on what Jim the gas station attendant said......
Sure, and it’s also possible to dig yourself out of a hole.
Bump
“Our economic success has never come from the top down,” Obama said. “It comes from the middle out; it comes from the bottom up.”
This is the stupidest fucking thing I have ever heard. The only thing worse than reading this kind of idiotic incompetency is knowing that the majority of Americans voted for this jackass.
If you truly honestly believe that our greatness comes from the average american, you’re ignorant. The average american is lazy, stupid, selfish and totally uniformed. Consumer sheep that pay ridiculous amounts of money for garbage commercial items.
I can’t tell you how deeply, honestly, truly I wish that Barack Obama was a nightmare, instead of reality.
Our country is as close to gone as ever.
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