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Obama???s Tax cut Illusion
The Wall Street Journal analyzes Barack Obama???s promise to cut taxes for 95% of Americans: Obama redefines tax cuts as tax credits and that results in a massive redistribution of taxpayer money.
Here is a list of Obama???s 7 proposed tax credits:
???- A $500 tax credit ($1,000 a couple) to ???make work pay??? that phases out at income of $75,000 for individuals and $150,000 per couple.
- A $4,000 tax credit for college tuition.
- A 10% mortgage interest tax credit (on top of the existing mortgage interest deduction and other housing subsidies).
- A ???savings??? tax credit of 50% up to $1,000.
- An expansion of the earned-income tax credit that would allow single workers to receive as much as $555 a year, up from $175 now, and give these workers up to $1,110 if they are paying child support.
- A child care credit of 50% up to $6,000 of expenses a year.
- A ???clean car??? tax credit of up to $7,000 on the purchase of certain vehicles.???
The clean car credit is the only tax credit that must offset actual money paid. The other 6 credits are ???refundable??? because they can be claimed even if you have no income-tax liability. These are income transfers intended to redistribute money from one American to another.
Thus, under Obama???s tax plan, millions of Americans will get government payments in excess of what they pay in taxes, making this a massive redistribution of income far beyond what welfare ever paid:
???The Tax Foundation estimates that under the Obama plan 63 million Americans, or 44% of all tax filers, would have no income tax liability and most of those would get a check from the IRS each year. The Heritage Foundation???s Center for Data Analysis estimates that by 2011, under the Obama plan, an additional 10 million filers would pay zero taxes while cashing checks from the IRS.
The total annual expenditures on refundable ???tax credits??? would rise over the next 10 years by $647 billion to $1.054 trillion, according to the Tax Policy Center. This means that the tax-credit welfare state would soon cost four times actual cash welfare. By redefining such income payments as ???tax credits,??? the Obama campaign also redefines them away as a tax share of GDP. Presto, the federal tax burden looks much smaller than it really is.

and the government volunteering over $700 billion tax payer dollars to bail out the top 3% richest people on the planets business isnt socialism??? are you watching the news at all??? or just bad campaign commercials??

When listening to liberals like Obama and Biden one must be careful to listen for what they don???t say. The reason for this is liberals have a very difficult time talking directly to an issue. I think when you spread the wealth around, it???s good for everybody.??? Joe the Plumber had singlehandedly managed to get him to admit that his tax policy was designed to raise taxes on people earning over $250,000 for the purpose of redistributing it to those who didn???t ??? the classic definition of socialism. Liberals always seem to be looking over their mental shoulders or sniffing the political air.
Like the typical Liberal, their philosophy is to convince the public that they are sick, poor, down trodden, and generally worse off than they really are. And government is always the answer.

So let me see if I have this right- Biden says ???Time to get on board, time to be patriotic??? by paying higher taxes, but Obama says he is going to give a tax ???break??? to 95% of Americans. Well, if I do the math correctly, and 40% of Americans do not already pay any taxes, then the answer is ???welfare???. OK, now I understand. It is very clear to me that the media is incompetent since they seem too interested in what newspaper Sarah Palin reads, but could care less about Obama???s associations, lack of a real birth certificate, etc. Every time you turn on the TV, Obama has yet another questionable tie to a suspicious person. By the way, can anyone please explain to me why I cannot find Obama???s college thesis online?

One thing that bugs me, more than anything, is the way the biased media announces who'll win before anyone has even voted. And the silly celebrities being photographed in their Obama shirts and pins. Why do they think anyone cares about their politics.

I'm the mother of two teenage girls living in a small, very Democratic suburb. We're very religious (Baptist) and pretty conservative, but I tell my girls and my husband to keep our opinions private. We don't want everyone to hate us.

My daughters were telling me that they don't feel like they can even talk politics at school because they'll be the odd people out. No one seems to be talking about the peer pressure to vote Democrat this time, but it's a BIG problem I think.

My daughter showed me a funny column from "AMY VS. JOHN" at Wetv.com called, "Can a Liberal Love a Conservative." It points out exactly how people like me feel when they're not completely on board with the favorite candidate.

I like Obama and McCain, but I don't like the bully tactics the Democrats are pulling. Isn't this a democracy?

Just a little humor, this reporter compares McCain to Gollum from Lord of the Rings. LOL!

It is the disconnect between what voters expected from a maverick war hero statesman and what they saw during the debates: an angry, petty, envious creature not in control of his own physical or mental faculties. Gail Collins of the New York Times has provided the best description: he is Gollum, from Lord of the Rings ("We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious.")

After 9/11, the US government started rounding up Muslims without cause and without due process of law, like we did to the Japanese Americans in WWII. The Bush administration called it's main internment camp Guantanamo Bay. While there are certainly many guilty terrorists held in Guantanamo, there are also many innocent American citizens who have been held illegally for years without even being charged with any crime. They have been tortured by our government. Some of them have died.

Recently the Supreme Court ruled against the Bush administration in the matter of Guantanamo Bay. The Supreme Court Justices were NOT on the side of the terrorists. They were on the side of the Geneva Convention, that says you can not torture POWs, and on the side of US laws that state you can not imprison a person without charging them with a crime and bringing them to trial. I'm sure that like most Americans, the Justices who voted against the illegal, immoral doings at Guantanamo didn't feel sympathy for the terrorists. They felt sympathy for the laws of AMERICA, the land of the FREE, where even rat finks get a fair trial.

Meanwhile, back in Iraq, the Bush administration is busy trying to build a smokescreen to hide the CRIMES they have committed. Those pesky weapons of mass destruction. Just think, the National Debt went up over 6 trillion dollars under Bush. More than 2 TRILLION of it went directly into the pockets of Halliburton, a corporation owned by the Cheney family. Halliburton is now a DUBAI corporation and therefore is not subject to US taxes. All that money they took out of the US Treasury is going into the coffers of a MUSLIM country.

Did you hear about how the US government is being charged millions for Halliburton deliveries of sand into Iraq from Kuwait? Sand. Like there is a shortage of sand in Iraq? Another contractor shipped sand from Idaho to Iraq at our expense. Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz discusses these and other excesses of our current government's out of control spending in Iraq.

Your grandchildren will be working like slaves to pay off this debt, so that the Bushes and Cheneys can live the high life in Dubai.

Yeah, they're patriots, Bush&Co. They wear flag pins. And hide the money they stole from America in Dubai.

And they want me to believe that Obama is a socialist. Right.

In case you think McCain is any different than Bush, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdJUCU1UH2w

When Russ Limbaugh says Collin Powell is racially biased because he endorses Barack Obama it is obvious, especially to anyone who saw Powell???s endorsement, that the one with the prejudice is actually Russ Limbaugh. To see George W. Bush in any situation today it is very hard to see him as anything but unconcerned and really as if he couldn???t give a damn. Then there is Gov. Palin who impresses that she will actually say anything, without any conscience, or simply do anything, including using her baby as a prop, to bring attention to her and to further her personal objectives. Senator John McCain tries to present himself as a ???Maverick??? and as someone interested in the needs of all of the people yet he avoids taking any position that may benefit the majority wherever it could possibly offend his strongly conservative base and he offers nothing but a continually changing presentation to literally try to play each circumstance in his favor, as he has really done all of his career. The ???trickle down??? philosophy the Republicans continually advocate actually does little for the economy, greatly benefits the wealthy and costs all tax payers. In years past the Democratic Party demonstrated a cocky, arrogant attitude showing it was all about them as they pursued whatever it was they wanted without hesitation or conscience. The pendulum simply swings in both directions, as far one way and then back as far in the other direction. Eight years of Bush-Cheney should have clearly demonstrated to any objective and rational observer that there is a significant part of the Republican Party that shouldn???t be allowed to control the Party let alone the government. It actually would be nice today to have a third political party, or even more, to break things up, create the need to form coalitions and literally prevent the domination and cocksure attitude of any one party and then, hopefully, they would better represent all of the people. Without ever taking the money out of politics that is simply near impossible to accomplish. The real point is to recognize where the pendulum is and that it has now swung drastically to the Republican side with them being cocky, arrogant and irresponsible, being focused on their own and the interests of a select few, simply ignoring the best interests of the majority. As Collin Powell said, ???Barack Obama is the right choice for now???!