My Obama-speak is a little rusty, but would he mean to imply tax increases with that statement?
Unfortunately yes, it sounds like he still wants to tax and spend and tax and spend ...
Yeah, I started to notice that bit of Newspseak emerging late last year (maybe they used it earlier, I just hadn't noticed). It is a particularly troubling perversion of the language in that its basis is that all $$$ belong to the Fedgov and any that you are allowed to "keep" is spending by Fedgov. That is why (in their Newspeak minds) an individual or corporation taking a (valid, legal) deduction against their taxable income is spending by Fedgov. Also, if a tax rate is lowered (allowing a corporation or individual to "keep" more of their income), it is also spending by Fedgov.
Obviously we've known all along that this is the attitude of the statists, but for some reason hearing them speak it in this manner is particularly troublesome (IMO).
Actually “spending in the tax code” is a recently coined piece of nauseating Orwellian misdirection, is meant to refer to tax breaks. You see, when the government allows taxpayers to keep their own money through tax breaks, the statists see this as the government spending money to give you your own money back. Simply put, this is Obama’s way of admitting through this little obfuscation, that he firmly believes that all your money are belong to the gubmint and if they let you keep some, that’s “spending”. Done through tax breaks, letting you keep your money is spending in the tax code.
Absolutely sickening.
AMERICA!!! WAKE UP!!! THIS FILTHY BUNCH IN WASHINGTON HAS VIRTUALLY ENSLAVED YOU WITH TAXES AND REGULATIONS. A LITTLE MORE SPENDING IN THE TAX CODE AND A LITTLE MORE “IMMIGRATION REFORM” AND YOU WILL HAVE NO COUNTRY AND NO FREEDOM WHEN THE FRUITS OF YOUR LABOR ARE TRANSFERRED TO INVADING HORDES, UNION THUGS, CRONY CAPITALISTS AND POLITICAL PIGS FEEDING AT THE STATE AND FEDERAL TREASURIES.