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Topic: Obama´s Famous Tax ´Victory´ |
Obama´s Famous Tax ´Victory´
Wall Stret Journal, by Kimberley A. Strassel
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Posted By:Desert Fox, 12/6/2012 10:51:48 PM
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| To read the current fiscal-cliff coverage, President Obama holds the upper hand and is poised for the "victory" of winning an increase in the top two tax rates. So successful has the White House been in defining this fight, few have stopped to consider how paltry that victory is likely to be. For a short-term win on this ideological issue, President Obama may well cede most everything else. Let us assume that Mr. Obama is correct in his bet that the GOP will prove more responsible than he is and won´t cliff-dive. The president´s recent baiting of Republicans—his
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
smcchk, 12/6/2012 10:59:58 PM (No. 9052854)
Exactly, Ms. Strassel! Be careful what you wish for, Obama!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
bluefindad, 12/6/2012 11:38:36 PM (No. 9052875)
The problem is still that there are too many low information Americans - whose only real concern is more for themselves at the expense of others. Then there are others - well meaning, but naive, who for their entire lifetime believe, regardless of evidence or argument otherwise, only that the "Republicans only care about the rich."
Nevertheless Kimberly, keep at it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 12/6/2012 11:49:08 PM (No. 9052880)
Within 5 minutes of signing the tax increase on the rich, Obama will demand the spending limit be raised another 2 Trillion dollars. The GOP ends nothing by caving. And next year, the GOP will be holding the middle class hostage unless they put up some of the same revenue increases they proposed this year. And he will express concern at the politics that is keeping from doing what they proposed this year. I´m sorry, but the cliff is more attractive than throwing individual taxpayers to the wolves.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Hammock, 12/7/2012 12:21:45 AM (No. 9052893)
Facts don´t matter as long as the people believe what the TV tells them - and they do. I´ve met too many people who can´t think for themselves because it´s easier to scapegoat and bond with their buddies. When the economy doesn´t recover, there will be more demands to loot and those awful Republicans will be blamed for everything.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Patriot Forever, 12/7/2012 12:34:13 AM (No. 9052898)
The House Republicans are going to lose every issue if they retain the current House Speaker. He does not have the smarts to lead nor the energy to counter the false options of the President. We need one of the promising young guns to step forward and contend for the leadership of the Party.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 12/7/2012 1:47:48 AM (No. 9052926)
Go off the cliff & only fund debts. Gov´t dept.s & programs that have measureable audits for effectiveness in place, get 85% of their 2012 expenditures. Dep´t & programs that have run wild, without oversite will not be funded.
Kimberly is right in her thinking but forgets that Obama will continue to lie in the future... and blame the GOP each step of the way.
If Obama violates the constitution by handing out funds, start impeachment proceedings. We haven´t had a budget in 4 years...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
King of all trolls, 12/7/2012 1:54:37 AM (No. 9052928)
Keep purposely making offers the Democraps will never accept, then at the 11th hour offer to give Zippy´s tax proposal an up or down vote and orchestrate a walk out. Let Emperor Doom own his taxes. Let him own the economy. Let the rich white liberals get soaked by their jug eared messiah. Let the gimmiecrats go without work. Onward to the 2014 midterms, when melanin is not on the ballot.
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