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| 2008-10-29 |
| Is Joe Biden the foot-in-mouth candidate - or is he the Obama campaign's designated teller of inconvenient truths? First, the Democratic veep hopeful declared that America's enemies will generate "an international crisis, to test the mettle of" a President Obama. Scary - but likely true. And yesterday Biden let slip that he and Obama apparently have a sliding scale to determine who's "super-rich." Obama, after all, has been promising a tax cut for the "middle class" - those making $200,000 a year or less. I thought it was $250,000? Biden yesterday lowered that bar. He does that every time he opens his mouth. "What we're saying," he told a Pennsylvania TV interviewer, "is that [our] tax break doesn't need to go to people making . . . $1.4 million. It should go to [people] making under $150,000 a year." I thought it was $200,000? Oops. That's a 25 percent downward redefinition of "middle class." Just trying to "level the playing field", right, boys? An Obama mouthpiece quickly dismissed the discrepancy as just another one of Joe the Senator's gaffes. Oh, that Joe... But consider: The campaign has a new TV commercial out declaring that families - not individuals - earning $200,000 or less would qualify for a tax cut. Two incomes - not one. So that would make it a $100,000? And, as most middle-class wage-earners know, that's a huge difference. Just "spreading the wealth around". Y'all be cool... As Sen. John McCain said yesterday: "At this rate, it won't be long before Sen. Obama is right back to his vote that Americans making just $42,000 should get a tax increase." What, you think that wasn't the plan all along? We wouldn't be surprised - what with leading congressional Democrats like Rep. Barney Frank licking their chops at the chance to raise taxes. "We'll have to raise taxes, ultimately," Frank declared over the weekend. Don't say you weren't warned. ...like we didn't know? |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #13 Yes, W should've VETO'd the first couple of iterations of the pork inherent there in & then named the pork stuffers publicly. $700B probably could've been knocked down quite a bit. |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-10-29 15:37 |
| #12 So mister Red what was W going to do? Veto the bail out legislation and then watch the banking system go into oblivion with assholes like Schumer creating multiple bank runs? Remember Paulson and Greenberg are democrates and Barney, Freddie, and the gang including democrate investment bankers created the danger. This was a set up and I don't blame W for trying to save the economy even if it meant "sort term" nationalization of the banking bastards. |
| Posted by: bman 2008-10-29 15:19 |
| #11 Are his tax cuts for 95% before or after the tax increases generated by the expiration of the Bush tax cuts? (Please do remember those, all you who think Bush worthless.) |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-10-29 14:07 |
| #10 Soon to come.... Tax credit exclusions and Social Security "offsets" for those already drawing pensions. Got to be "fair" about all of this redistro. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-10-29 13:09 |
| #9 I am not married and have no dependents (except for my animals) so I guess I'm not a Family and therefore not entitled to any type of tax breaks. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-10-29 12:44 |
| #8 The US has been going socialized since the New Deal. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-10-29 12:42 |
| #7 I'm still a full time student, that means I'm technically poor. Does this mean I get free bling if Obama is elected? Like maybe a new Escalade? How about a free section 8 condo right downtown. With all the bitches and ho's I can pimp while I roll fat in my lifted black Cadillac? Maybe I could get this whole thing going my way. Or maybe I'll be lucky to afford food if this jerkoff gets elected. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-10-29 12:39 |
| #6 get ready for socilized USA boys, George W has already started us on our way with his "bailout" for the banks and insurance companies. Accept it, George W. Bush has started to Socialize the United States, no denying the facts. Now we'll get the real thing to tack onto Georges legacy of Socialism, Obama and Scandanavian Style ( successful) socialism. |
| Posted by: Eric the Red 2008-10-29 12:12 |
| #5 Obama, Biden and Wright Own Million Dollar Homes Biden also has a scandal surrounding the SALE of his previous house. Joe Biden sold his house to a top executive of the Delaware-based credit card company MBNA. The price was twice the home's value, suggesting that MBNA had bought off Biden as well as his house. Biden has often been accused of being in bed with the MBNA. MBNA's top executives contributed generously to his campaign in a series of coordinated donations that sidestepped the limits on contributions by the company's political action committee. And then, a short time after the election, MBNA hired Biden's son for a lucrative job in which, according to bank officials, he is being groomed for a senior management position. You'd think the news media would be interested in a scandal like this. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-29 12:04 |
| #4 Reverend Wright must at this moment be shouting "GOD DAMN OBAMA!!!" in his $1.6 million mansion. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-29 11:33 |
| #3 Serious Question, what's O'Bama worth? Will he share "his" wealth? (Dying laughing, not no, but HELL NO) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-10-29 11:11 |
| #2 I never believed any of this malarky that they are putting out. Taxes are going to go up for nearly everyone. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-10-29 11:02 |
| #1 Obama gets elected, your taxes go up. End of story. You want low taxes, get to keep your 401(k) and retire, keep your wealth and give it to your kids... vote republican. Otherwise, you get the government you deserve. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-10-29 10:16 |