No one really believes a politician when he makes vague promises like “I’m going to clean up government.” But when you get specific with the voters, when the promises are clear-cut and unmistakable, well, then you’re likely to pay a price if it turns out you didn’t really mean it.
Just ask George Bush the Elder. More than anything else, six little words uttered at the Republican National Convention in 1988 brought him down: “Read my lips: no new taxes.” Voters believed him and elected him president that year. But just two years into his presidency, he broke his promise. And two years after that, in 1992, the voters said, Sorry, but words and promises matter. They tossed President Bush over the side and put Bill Clinton in the White House.
Fast forward. When President Obama was running for president he made all sorts of promises as candidates always do. But the one that sticks out was his George H. W. Bush tax moment, when he promised he would not raise taxes on anyone making less than $200,000 a year or any family making less than $250,000 a year. No, Obama never said, “Read my lips …” but he came pretty close when he promised that “you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.”
That’s pretty clear. And so is this, from a speech Obama made in Dover, New Hamphsire on September 12, 2008: “I can make a firm pledge: Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
Except he didn’t really mean absolutely, positively no new taxes, because just a year after he took office his “firm pledge” went up in smoke: He raised federal taxes on a pack of cigarettes from 39 cents to $1.01 per pack – an increase of about 160 percent. And since lots of smokers make less than $200,000 a year, the president broke his tax promise. But just about nobody cared, since just about nobody likes cigarette smokers anyway.
Fast forward again, this time to the health care debate. President Obama and Democrats in Congress said every American would have to buy medical insurance — or pay a penalty. But the penalty, they insisted, was not a tax.
In fact, President Obama told George Stephanopoulos on the ABC News program “This Week” week that, “For us to say that you’ve got to take a responsibility to get health insurance is absolutely not a tax increase. … I absolutely reject that notion.” Again, he didn’t literally say, “Read my lips,” but, come on, he said it!
But guess what? Now the Obama Administration has gone to court defending the requirement to purchase medical insurance by saying – ready for this? — the government has “power to lay and collect taxes.” Translation: Forget what we said before about how this wasn’t a tax. Now we say it is. Get over it.
More than 20 states are challenging the legality of that part of the law that requires Americans to buy health insurance. And because the Obama people fear they may not win the case strictly by arguing that the federal government can regulate interstate commerce, they went to what they see as a stronger constitutional argument: the government has the right to collect taxes.
So first it’s not a tax and now it is a tax. You get the point. This president will say whatever he has to win. His word means nothing. He told us he was a new politician, which, in Obama Speak, meant, he’s an old politician. He told us he was going to change the way business is conducted in Washington, which was just one more lie.
Words matter. Promises matter. So, Mr. President, read my lips: You and your party will pay for your deceit.
this youngin sittin next to me crankin to Justin Bieber…kill lls
STATE OF THE DIS UNION SPEECH AKA I OPENED MY EYES FOR THE FIRST TIME.
ITS ANOTHER ” GREASY THUMB” CHICAGO CRAP SANDWICH, WE DONT WANT IT. CIVILTY, FOR
RPUBLICANS ONLY, WE ATTACK & SMEAR. JOBS, JOBS, JOBS, WE’LL GET MILLIONS, NEW
REPUBS, TEA PARTY, REAGAN DEMS READY TO WORK. TRACK RECORD, SPENDING, OIL, COAL, ILLEGALS, OBAMACARE, CAP & TRADE, UNEMPLOY, HAS HE CHANGED ANY OF THIS ??
NO, NO, NO ! ! ! SPUTNIK??? HE DEFUNDED NASA, SHUTDOWN !!! 1 MILLION HOME
FORECLOSURES, BUSINESSES LEAVING OR CLOSE, BANKRUPTCY, HOME SALES DOWN
500 BANKS TO CLOSE 2011, ANY OBAMA WORRY HERE, NO ! *** SOME ECONOMISTS
BELIEVE MONEY PRINTING WILL INCREASE TO PUMP UP ECONOMY JUST IN TIME FOR 2012.
READ MY LIPS, JANET & JOHN OF TSA I’M SUEING YOU AND DHS FOR UNREASONABLE SEARCH
AND SEIZURES, 4 AMENDMENT.
FINALLY, IN A COUNTRY OF 300 MILLION PLUS, A REAL MAN WITH BACKBONE EMERGES, IS HE A
GREAT MEMBER OF THE HOUSE, SENATE, NO ! HE IS JESSE VENTURA, STAND UP FOR US, ARE WE MEN OR MICE, WE THE PEOPLE OR THE SHEEPLE, GO JESSE GO, HES GOT ” TRUE GRIT”
Clean up Government? He can’t even clean up those “thug infested” areas of Chicago where he was a “community organizer” in. Yeah, he did a real bang up job there did’nt he? Truth of the matter is, he is right at home in a crooked Washington. It is mystifying that so many people bought into this bs this guy was shoveling for a year and a half, well, learn from your mistakes and make wiser choices next time!
Hi Mr. Goldberg,
Did you read the complete text that accompanyed the video? If so, please explain to me why Mr. Breitbart must apologize for the Sherrod story. Here is the url: http://biggovernment.com/abreitbart/2010/07/19/video-proof-the-naacp-awards-racism2010/
I’d like to point out that Mr. Breitbart wrote
” She describes how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she decides that he should get help from “one of his own kind”. She refers him to a white lawyer.”
In those words is the turning point of her story.
Are you asking for an apology, because of the way the text and video was packaged… i.e. are you questioning that fact that her turning point was not in the video but in the written word?
Regards,
Zaz
hey man, it is’nt racism unless it is whites doing it against blacks , have’nt you figures that out yet? Hell with Sherrod, she’ll get another affirmative action cushony job .
The real facts are: The record of the Bush years was two and half years of declining employment, followed by four and a half years of modest job growth, at a pace significantly below the eight-year average under Bill Clinton, followed by a year of economic catastrophe. In 2007, at the height of the “Bush boom,” such as it was, median household income, adjusted for inflation, was still lower than it had been in 2000.
But the Bush apologists hope that you won’t remember all that.
I think you’re just jealous of Bush. That has to be why you obsess over him so much.
Stephen, Bill Clinton also had a better congress to work with after 1994.
Bush tax cuts created 3 trillion dollars worth of dept in his 1st year and created 3 million people to lose their jobs in his last 4 months .You do the math.
For some reason, libs’ math always misses the economic improvement that happens every time conservative policies are employed.
The last 3 times a president implemented a REAL, across the board tax-cut, the economy improved. And only after Clinton wised up and quit vetoing Speaker Gingrich’s CWA did the economy improve.
It was after President Bush & other Republicans started spending money like democrats, and then Congress being taken over by democrats, that things started going south.
Bill Clinton also had a better advisor with Dick Morris.
Did anyone expect differently? This man seems to think that all he has to do is say it and it will happen his way (all too often it is happening his way). I’m here to say the emperor has no clothes. And to further mix metaphors, I will never love big brother.
More importantly, Mr. Obama is not finished. Don’t underestimate him!!!!! He’s very smart. He will try to fulfill his agenda, with or without a majority in either house……..If Dems. lose big in November, he’ll blame republicans, ganging against good legislation…Please, do NOT underestimate the President.
For the first months of his term, President Obama “was not informed”. Second six monthe he “mis-spoke”. Then he was “taken out of context”, since then he “just flat out lies”.
[...] Read My Lips … | Bernard Goldberg [...]
Bernie, all these comments on who’s the blame(presidents) is giving me a headache.
My question is , since this lie’r now says it is a tax, does everyone, including people with insurance have to pay the tax?
ps, if Obama told Wil the building is on fire, jump, he would with out any question.
When a politician starts to speak somebody should mix in circus calliope music. My favorite line is, “Let me make this perfectly clear.” The previous statement is an early warning system for B.S. multiplexer accceleration. Followed by my tweaked 21st century William F. Buckleyism. “I’m not going to insult your intelligence by thinking you believe that crap you just told me.” Sadly, I guess it boils down to what your definition of truth or a promise is, or was. Best Regards
Why anyone , anywhere would believe anything any politician from either party ever says is beyond me ??? Just go by the old joke , how do you know when a politician is lying , HIS LIPS ARE MOVING
i can’t remember since Reagan, who would look to cut $100.00 hammer they bought,or gettting millions for a importan thing like…WALLS FOR LOUISIANA,, TO HELP,,PEOPLE SURVIVE A CATASTROPHE.. to make a 50 cent phone call to move buses to people in trouble….Naaaaa, Why start somewhere, when pigishness is FUN @ DOING WHAT EVER U WANT IS OK TO …,,,AND not having a conscience on there mind…REMEMBER,,, THE FIRST WILL BE LAST,,,@ THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST….Being on Christ side is very inportain,,because he is so kind, patience, he is also the man who can send u down stairs to…Think about it POLITICIANS…..GOOD LUCK…
What is the next thing Obama will make us buy or else be taxed?
Green roof? GM car? Vacation in Russia?
A portrait of Obama.
…to be prominently displayed in every home.
Bernie, he took all of the things I hated about Bush and put them on steroids.
Stephen Shields,
You are right! Everything some people hated about President George Bush looks very small compared to what “Hope and Change” President Obama is doing, trying to do, spreading the ‘wealth” which is no longer there, thanks to his agenda! At last former President Bush called the tesrrorists that and protected the country after 911. This President doesn’t even believe terrorists exist, until they kill his people. Before that incident, they were just plain criminals. Tax cuts will expire in 2012 on all of us, so this wonderful President can “spread the wealth” ,and hopefully will pay dearly at the November polls. Too late maybe though after all his terrible leadership and changing everything for the worst! He fooled most people and thinks his presidency is all a campaign, that he can break all his promises, just respond sometimes to what the majority wants, etc., etc. He CAN read the teleprompter though!! Turning gray haired fast in in 18 months though.
Read my lips moment is 100% correct, Bernie. I love your fresh, smart analysis!
This is one of the many, many examples of what the Republicans need to use against BO in 2012.
They should add the “medical device” tax that’s part of the HC bill, and they need to point out the broken promises of no lobbyists, no pork, being post-partisan, post-racial, and transparent.
The worst thing you can do to a democrat candidate is quote him.
Well, if someone had lunatic ideas the worst thing to do is try to suppress him, for that gives him a kind of weird credibility. The best thing you can do is give him a bull horn, a stage and gather a large audience. That, indeed, has been given to the Dems. But there are two problems with that tactic: 1. You’ve got to remember what he says. 2. You’re got to remember you too have been quoted to your damage.
There is a solution in O’s case: the people you have running on the ticket are not the same old big government Neocon Bushites, but people of a completely different philosophy. Even FOX news has caught on, and know going to the Republicans for a damaging critique of Obama’s style of collectivism. So they’ve turned to those they previously ignored and insulted: the Libertarian wing of Conservative thought. The people that have done the most to get at O’s agenda at FOX are not big government guys like Neocon Bill Kristol or establishment news guy Brit Hume, but Judge Napolitano and recruits Beck and Stossel. More and more Libertarian voices are rising in the Republican party. They are being fought, but without them the RNC has “0″ credibility, whether now or in 2012. Only they will shrink government if they experience an ascendancy in power. But my fear is things are not yet bad enough for that to happen.
You forgot a teleprompter
At this point I thought everyone would understand the teleprompter as a given.
Foxnews &The O’Reilly Show:
O’Reilly brought on Goldberg. The two of them gleefully opined that the liberal media is obsolete at least partly thanks to Fox News. “History has a way in America… of correcting bad things in the country and I think we’re at that point now with the media,” O’Reilly gloated.
“The so-called mainstream media, the television networks are becoming less and less relevant by the day,” Goldberg crowed. He later bragged about how Fox News “pushed” the Van Jones story and the ACORN story and complained that the New York Times hadn’t. So, Bernie, where is the ACORN repudiation? Where’s the Fox News reporting on the discrediting of the ACORN tapes? In fact, why didn’t you mention it right there and then?
Goldberg added, “The old media isn’t totally dead yet but it’s dying.. Here’s the news. Fox has become the mainstream in America.”
Then why do they care so much that the “dying,” “irrelevant,” “ideological” media isn’t covering the news the way they do?
http://www.newshounds.us/
Thanks to viewers like you the ratings are being driven very high.
Why do you & millions of others keep watching Fox News?
Something keeps bringing you back instead of watching CNN of MSNBC.
How much of your news to you get off the web?
Why are newspapers dying? The ratings & the facts do not lie.
thje new media is here to stay, as long as we can afford the equipment & electric bill.
Why do you & millions of others keep watching Fox News?>>
Because, it is like an accident on the highway, I cannot look away. BTW, I also watch CNN & MSNBC and read newspapers. You should too.
ACORN was never repudiated.
Unless the viewer is blinded by liberal partisanship, nobody can look at the tape and miss ACORN representatives supporting illegal, disgraceful acts.
Failure to prosecute an obvious crime with unambiguous, photographic proof shows only that the authorities are corrupt morons; nothing has been refuted.
Are you also of the mind that the NBP case was handled correctly?
Oh, and they “care so much…” because liberal journalists all too often do the public a real disservice when they fail in their job.
The whole premise of the attack on the ACORN offices was false. This guy dressed up as a pimp, went into the offices and they gave him straight up advice as if that was normal. Actually, no, he was dressed up like a law student and they called the cops on him.”
Discrediting of the ACORN tapes? WTF Wil? You’ve completely gone over the deep end and need hospitalization (if you can get it once Obamacare ruins our healthcare system). Seriously dude, you’ve become a cartoon character and you really don’t make any sense and resort to making stuff up to make your points here. As Michael Savage says, liberalism is a mental defect. Don’t you grasp what an idiot you are. Did you see those tapes? Pretty clear cut, no?
Sorry: I meant to say: “Even FOX news has caught on, and know going to the Republicans for a damaging critique of Obama’s style of collectivism would be ineffective.”
Heck, even a Neocon Big government, war party Republican like Hannity sounds a little Libertarian and has said he had a soft spot for some Libertarian ideas, like reducing the size of government and more freedom for individuals. The only problem is people like him who support the Warfare state support a policy that insures central government will never shrink. If you want smaller government, hey hey, ho ho, folks like that have to go.
By the time the Supreme Court rules on Obamacare, I’ll likely be on my 23rd alias (in terms of posting to blogs). My guess, though, is this. I’m betting that the Supreme Court will find that the Obama administration’s attempt to use the Commerce Clause to enforce the individual mandate was “a bridge too far.” Too, I’m betting that the Supreme Court will uphold Arizona’s SB 1070, against which, in its request for an injunction, the Obama administration ALSO tried to use the Commerce Clause. (“When all else fails, use the Commerce Clause.”)
Whenever my wife and I discuss this, I also tell her that Congress will change hands this November and that Obama will be kicked out of the White House at the end of his term.
Voters have had ENOUGH.
Mark,
I hope you’re right! I think Obama is aligned with enough thug organizations to muddy the waters to the point we can’t get honest elections. I think Holder’s refusal to prosecute the NBP thugs is a sign of things to come. But I hope and pray you’re right and I’m wrong. Even if you’re right, PLEASE GOD, let us not fall back into the hands of Neocon Republicans, but real Goldwater-style conservatives that will NOT sustain today’s status quo, but begin to disestablish the encrustations of this unConstitutional, Chaotic mess so we can see the Constitution it has obscured. That our hopes rest upon the Supreme Court is not encouraging. I believe it must rest upon the Declaration of Independence, nullification and interposition: states asserting their sovereignty defiantly. It’s way past time!
Wm.
Like you, I’m not at all comfortable relying on the Supreme Court. But that’s somewhere down the road…the legal system being what it is. In the meantime, I agree with you that salvation rests in the election of Goldwater-style conservatives. Maybe the Kool-Aid flood that you and I (and others) have survived will be a wake-up call to the American electorate. One can only hope….
We can do more than hope…but not much more.
Then what, back to the good old Republican days of tax cuts for the rich and more wars!
As long as the tax cuts help create more job growth and the wars help protect our nation (i.e., The War on Terror), I’m all for it!
Wil,
Something has to ‘give’. Have you given any thought to exactly WHAT our Military personnel are going to do for employment once they start returning to the US? I’ve supported a group of 26 Troops through 3 deployments; they returned from Afghanistan 7 months ago and not a single one has found a job. Yet, our Military personnel continue to believe in what they are doing, and I still believe in our Military. I’m just not too sure anyone believes in Obama…
Oh look! Two more examples of liberals’ bigotry:
1) believing that only the rich shouldn’t keep more of their money.
2) suggesting the GOP is the war-monger party.
(In all fairness, #2 could be due to mere ignorance and not bigotry.)
Obama is a lawyer; lawyers are not to be trusted because they are taught a kind of speech and way of looking at reality that means whatever they want it to mean at any given time. The Sophists and Skeptics of Socrates’ time approached life and reality this way. They are the patron saints of today’s lawyers, especially those who litigate in this age of Positive Law.
Lawyers are trained to lie to the point they do it reflexively––they lie even when they don’t have to just to stay in practice.
Now, while this is the case with Obama his lies concerning taxes, as well as many other issues, are not just a lawyer staying in practice; they were made with malice aforethought.
He is in office to get revenge for “the downtrodden masses.” He believes the Marxist mantras and commits to the Marxist vocabulary, including one of their favorite and most effective collectivist terms: racism.
He tries to keep his image clean while his minions do his dirty work. Do you, for instance, think for one moment that he disagrees with Holder’s outrageous decisions? Do you think he was unaware he has social radicals and Marxists in his cadre of Czars? Do you think he was really forced into the corporate take overs he accomplished early in his term? If you think that I’ve got some ocean front property I’ll sell you here just south of Dallas.
I don’t know if the man is American or not––that’s immaterial, because his thinking is UnAmerican; it is totalitarian and he is trying to transform America into a totalitarian system. He’s even willing to sacrifice his presidency to that end. Thanks to the Imperial presidency post-Lincoln, the ground work for him doing so has been well laid.
Since so much power is now concentrated in the Executive it is mind blowing how much damage he has already been able to do. And, he’s just getting warmed up.
We are at a cross roads: we either be pushed by crises and fear towards a totally centralized, totalitarian, command and control Empire, or courageously back to the subsidiarity of a federated Republic, personal liberty, state’s rights, state’s sovereignty, free markets and a foreign policy of non-intervention.
Sad to say, when you see where we presently are, the journey to totalitarianism is a much shorter one than the return to the Founders and the rebirth of a constitutionally limited central government.
In my opinion, peaceful secession would be the best, most humane and most noble solution, with states forming coalitions with others of like mind. (For God’s sake, let birds of a feather flock together.) Thus we would end up, ironically, with part of the nation slave and part free. The real irony is most of the slave states would be those that fought for the Union (for a powerful centralized government) and most of the State’s Rights/free market/low tax/free trade states would be in the South.
While such a division may seem shocking and unpalatable for many, it’s still a lot better than letting Obama enslave us all to a totalitarian, Robin Hood-style Marxist, centralized state.
My 2 ¢.
As an addendum, while the irony of the Union breaking up into different political and sovereign bodies may seem hard for some of you to swallow, consider the following as a real possibility if things continue developing toward increasing consolidation of Federal power (primarily in the Executive):
As the central government of the American Union unconstitutionally usurped the sovereignty of the several states via 1) an unconstitutional war and 2) the 1868 Supreme Court decision (White vs Texas) banning secession ex-post facto (in other words, making the sovereign states which joined the union essentially a sovereignty suicide pact), so the political and legal sovereignty of the consolidated American State, under which we presently suffer, is being increasingly threatened by forces determined to establish an International Government.
It could be, as the pro-Lincoln Supreme Court betrayed the true sovereignty of the states in White vs Texas, Our present Supreme Court could possible betray the sovereignty of our hegemonic, so-called Federal Government, putting us under the authority of international courts.
Think about what we’ve seen come to pass in America in the last ten or twenty years before you shake your head and say, “That could never happen!”…Really? Have you paid no heed to comments on international law by some of the Big Nine?
So, ultimately, which do you want? A group of different political alliances in America, which is bound to have one or more free, Constitutional Republics, or the tyrannical, Consolidated American State existing under international law interpreted by the even greater tyrannical authority of International Courts half way around the world?
“More than 20 states are challenging the legality of that part of the law that requires Americans to buy health insurance.”
However, let’s be realistic. States challenge federal law USUALLY because they want the power themselves, not because no government anywhere should have the power. States don’t want federal control to eliminate their own healthcare regulatory infrastructure. Oh, no. That would be bad, for the State government machine.
I predict the outcome of that case will either be (very terrible) that congress does have the power to mandate citizens purchase particular goods and services and punish for non-compliance or (terrible) that the States must. Either way, it works out terrible, for us.
Dan
- “The Next 10 Amendments”
p.s. no fewer than 5 of my 10 Amendments would be needed to put any government in a position to even begin to rationally think about reforming something as complex and important as healthcare. In short a massive improvement to the way government works must precede a massive improvement to anything else. Or else every giant “reform” will be a bunch of changes with giant unintended consequences.
This is not really so. I believe you’re a bit too pessimistic (I can’t believe I’m saying that). Once the power goes back to the states the people are much more able to control and regulate it. The whole reason for the subsidiarity of the original Republic was so local power and policy could be controlled more directly and democratically by the people. Giving the power back to the states is not perfect, but it’s a step in the right direction. Let’s be grateful for small blessings; it gives us hope for more and courage to fight for it.
I am not a bit surprised that our presidnet turned out to be just another politician. What would truly surprise me would be seeing the main stream media following up on the broken promises & what appears to be outright lies of our president as outlined in Bernies column.
“Forget what we said before about how this wasn’t a tax. Now we say it is. Get over it.”
Truth is, most people don’t know and won’t know when it comes time to vote what was argued in court, unless the court happens to simultaneously be trying Snooki, Lindsay, a Kardashian, Justin Bieber and Oprah (live 24/7 broadcast on E!, of course). Or maybe if those folks and a few of Tiger’s friends were on the jury!
Then enough people might tune in. IF the jury were allowed to ask questions and the jury room and sequestered jury house were wired CBS Big Brother style. But of course this particular court battle won’t have a jury, even though the outcome may produce hundreds of millions of victims — how’s that for some 3rd branch irony.
The entire so-called healthcare reform law was crafted to try to maximize chances to win in 2012, which doesn’t mean it’ll successfully contribute to that outcome. However, I believe the “loyal opposition” is going to need a lot more going for it than, “You voted our guy out in 1992 for (“more than anything else”) one lie. Be fair and let’s penalize their guy for many lies.”
Silly.
Dan
- “The Next 10 Amendments”
“More than anything else, six little words uttered at the Republican National Convention in 1988 brought him down: “Read my lips: no new taxes.” Voters believed him and elected him president that year. But just two years into his presidency, he broke his promise. And two years after that, in 1992, the voters said, Sorry, but words and promises matter. They tossed President Bush over the side and put Bill Clinton in the White House.”
I realize this is the conventional wisdom, but I reject it as superficial and fundamentally flawed (and I’m surprised Bernie believes it much less repeats it). Suppose the democrats had run Barbara Boxer for president. George Bush would’ve likely won in a cake walk, even though he uttered the faux-infamous “Read my lips: No new taxes.” To believe that “more than anything else” Bush the elder lost as punishment for breaking the pledge is to believe that everything else mattered less.
Bill Clinton was younger, better looking, a better speech giver, more likable and a fresh face, nationally (sound familiar). I believe each of those elements mattered more, except to the people inside the (extended) DC bubble who want so hard to believe the incident was a cautionary tale.
If the consequences of breaking that promise were that dramatic and clear in the American psyche it would have indicated a level of awareness and responsibility that would’ve not even allowed crazy campaign promises to be made any longer – lest they be rejected out of hand by the newly responsibility-demanding voter and reflected in the campaign polls. 2008 proved that wasn’t the case. A majority of American voters ate up the promises from a new promiser, same old, same old.
And if the Republicans pull out a challenger in 2012 ala Bob Dole (aka unwinnable) to challenge the sitting Democrat, that result will likely be the same, no matter how many faux-infamous words are uttered between now and then.
But…just my take (of that famous analysis) and predictions.
Dan
- “The Next 10 Amendments”
I sort of agree with you, Dan, but another factor also came into play in 1992, and that was
Ross Perot. I don’t know all the numbers, but he probably siphoned off enough votes from Bush in key states to give the electoral college numbers to Clinton. I have to admit I voted for Clinton in ’92, and when I told a friend that, he asked me if had voted for Clinton or against Bush. I had to acknowledge it was the latter. The read-my-lips factor did play in that decision.
I am very proud to say I was NOT one of those fooled by Mr. Obama and his campaign of lies. I fully expect that in the coming months my husband and I (a self employed businessman with several employees) will see our taxes skyrocket. We will receive exactly nothing in return. God bless America and help us all.
Is there anybody in the world that doesn’t know that any government has the power to lay and collect taxes? Does the pack of lying miscreants that presently run our government not know that simply commenting on the obvious is not an acceptable explanation for breaking a promise. As Obama’s myriad taxes hit home and hard money is removed from people’s pockets all the bullcrap that he can conjure up will not be enough to placate them. He should be dumped for many many reasons that require some thought on the part of the voters but taking their money after loudly vowing and promising not to will do the job simply because MONEY TALKS–LOUDLY!
Well, shoot, he was right. He hasn’t raised my taxes one single dime. Of course he has, and will raise them just a bit MORE than one … single … dime.
Again, is there anyone on Earth still surprised at this? ANYone? Seriously?
I called this back in 2004, again in February of 2007, again in November of 2008 and again in January of 2009.
Jesse, Can you tell us what taxes did Obama raise?
Wil
He (and the Congress) will not re-instate the Bush tax cuts at years end, particularly for those (the investment class; the evil Rich) who can help the economy the most.
The health care plan is one giant tax increase, phased in over 10 years.
If he gets cap and trade, ditto.
Case closed.
He (and the Congress) will not re-instate the Bush tax cuts at years end, particularly for those (the investment class; the evil Rich) who can help the economy the most.>>
Good, Let the wealthy eat cake! The evil rich today is sitting on trillions of dollars, They ain’t helping now!
Evil Rich? Wil you are going overboard on that one.
The evil rich have are the only ones with resources to invest in this country. There evil money and investments in this country create private sector jobs for us to live on & the resources for our non proifits to exist. Bless every one of them and be sure to thank Bill Gates & Steven Jobs. Look what their work has done to the computer industry & charitable contributions they have made benefiting millions.
Being rich is no sin.