President Barack Obama said numerous times during his campaign that he would raise taxes but only on people that made over $250,000 a year. This is also stated on his website: http://www.barackobama.com/taxes/.
Some Americans may be frightened to hear that because of yet another spending bill being pushed by Obama, a proposal for a national sales tax has been made, http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2009/05/national_sales_tax_mulled_to_o.html. I'm a little confused. Obama said taxes would only be raised on Americans making over $250,000 a year, but a national sales tax would raise taxes for all Americans. Something is a little off here. The purpose of the new tax would be to pay off the costs of switching the country's health care system to a universal form. I'm not a fan of universal health care but I'll go over that another time.
The bottom line here is that the entire country's taxes would go up a considerable amount because of the bill that would give us bad health care. Woops, I meant to say universal health care.
Obama has always been a strong advocate of universal health care and he isn't backing away from this stance as mentioned earlier. Obama may or may not have been the one to suggest the national tax but whether he did or didn't isn't the point here. Because of a bill that he is pushing for, either all Americans will see an increase in their taxes or the country's debt will continue to sky rocket under Obama.
I'm not a fan of either.
"Change we can believe in"? We cam believe in Obama's change but we should hope and pray that it doesn't happen.
Obama has changed some things already unfortunately. He's changed his mind on who will be taxed in order to pay for his next spending bill.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Agree To Agree
I never thought I'd say this, but I actually agree with President Barack Obama on something. One thing to be specific.
In 2004 Obama became a U.S. senator. After he won that election reporters asked him if he would run for president and Obama said no because he believed in "knowing what you're doing when you apply for a job," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnLozS-TnM&feature=related.
I think Obama was right. He shouldn't have run for president because he was greatly lacking the experience necessary to be president. He didn't know what he was doing when he applied for the job. What changed his mind and led him to believe that he'd obtained the experience he said he lacked? No one knows.
I believe we're seeing what an inexperienced president will do. Just about all of Obama's picks for his administration have undergone intense scrutiny and rightfully so. His pick for Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, had problems because he simply didn't pay his taxes.
Tom Daschle was Obama's pick to be Health Secretary, he also hadn't problems because he didn't pay his taxes.
Obama has struggled to put a limit on his father's credit card (the national budget) and consequently he and congress have spent with reckless abandon.
Obama reminds me of a child that only knows a few phrases. That word is bailout.
They're have been so many spending bills in Obama's first 100 days as president that I have trouble keeping track of them. Every time a big company has to file for bankruptcy Obama and our liberal controlled congress suggest a bailout.
Give me a break! Whatever happened to a free market? Apparently Obama hasn't heard of that phrase.
I have an idea. If businesses make bad decisions they should recieve the consequences for those bad decisions. If my father's business were required to file for bankruptcy would they get a bailout? No! I thought democrats were about being fair and having a level playing field. Apparently they aren't about being fair.
Obama and congress should be a little more fair.
This whole problem would've been avoided if Obama had stuck to his word for once and not applied for a job he wasn't qualified for.
In 2004 Obama became a U.S. senator. After he won that election reporters asked him if he would run for president and Obama said no because he believed in "knowing what you're doing when you apply for a job," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BnLozS-TnM&feature=related.
I think Obama was right. He shouldn't have run for president because he was greatly lacking the experience necessary to be president. He didn't know what he was doing when he applied for the job. What changed his mind and led him to believe that he'd obtained the experience he said he lacked? No one knows.
I believe we're seeing what an inexperienced president will do. Just about all of Obama's picks for his administration have undergone intense scrutiny and rightfully so. His pick for Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner, had problems because he simply didn't pay his taxes.
Tom Daschle was Obama's pick to be Health Secretary, he also hadn't problems because he didn't pay his taxes.
Obama has struggled to put a limit on his father's credit card (the national budget) and consequently he and congress have spent with reckless abandon.
Obama reminds me of a child that only knows a few phrases. That word is bailout.
They're have been so many spending bills in Obama's first 100 days as president that I have trouble keeping track of them. Every time a big company has to file for bankruptcy Obama and our liberal controlled congress suggest a bailout.
Give me a break! Whatever happened to a free market? Apparently Obama hasn't heard of that phrase.
I have an idea. If businesses make bad decisions they should recieve the consequences for those bad decisions. If my father's business were required to file for bankruptcy would they get a bailout? No! I thought democrats were about being fair and having a level playing field. Apparently they aren't about being fair.
Obama and congress should be a little more fair.
This whole problem would've been avoided if Obama had stuck to his word for once and not applied for a job he wasn't qualified for.
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