Posted on 09/26/2011 4:30:49 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Wealthy Man Asks Obama Please Raise My Taxes
President Obama took a break from his three-day campaign fundraising tour today to pitch his $447 billion jobs plan and defend his proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy to reduce the deficit, arguing that everyone is going to have to do their fair share.
At the Putting America Back to Work LinkedIn town hall in Mountain View, Calif., Obama came face-to-face with his deficit-reduction proposal. Would you please raise my taxes? asked Doug Edwards a former director of consumer marketing and branding at Google, who described himself as unemployed by choice.
I would like very much to have the country to continue to invest in things like Pell grants and infrastructure and job training programs that made it possible for me to get to where I am, Edwards said. And it kills me to see Congress not supporting the expiration of the tax cuts that have been benefitting so many of us for so long. I think that needs to change, and I hope that youll stay strong in doing that.
The question set up the president to explain why he thinks its necessary to reform the tax code so that everybody is doing their fair share.
This is not an issue of do we somehow try to punish those whove done well. Thats the last thing we want to do. Its a question of how can we afford to continue to make the investments that are going to propel America forward? Obam
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When is Obama going to announce a new line on every tax form that these idiots can check that says:
PLEASE PUT ME IN THE NEW 50% TAX BRACKET.
They are all pro-choice, let’s see how many of them will put their money where their mouth is.
**did the article not ID the guy as a heavy Dem donor from Google?**
My pal said to me this afternoon: This dude is, me thinks, Robert, a Plant!
A sincere person would form or support a business to hire people—not encourage more taxes which reduces the investment pool of money in the private sector.
I must have heard wrong. I thought he said Mr. President I like it up the ***.
Of course, not a word from the MSM scum at ABC that this was a set up, planted question.
Not a word.
Somehow the married guys on this board know NOT to send this to their wives...purely a hunch.
If it hasn’t occurred to this moron, he could quite as easily donate all his money to the IRS. What I love about a-holes like this is they think money is easy to make, but let’s see him do it if Obama had his way 100%.
Drama!!! Some morons need more drama than others..
PAY MORE YOU IDIOT!
PAY MORE YOU IDIOT!
Why doesn’t he just pay more taxes on his own? Just write a check to the US Treasury and put a not in that this is his voluntary contribution.
PAY MORE YOU IDIOT!
THAT is scary.....
(hey, he just might be stupid enough....)
Go figure.
Really, Edwards is unemployed because he’s dumber than a box of rocks. Like telling a wolf that you want it to nibble your fingernails.
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