Obama Pledges to Not Raise Middle Class Taxes

[TNovaccaine]

0:17-0:26 That is exactly what you have been doing, you hypocritical idiot...like any politician he lies, but this guy makes the others look like geniuses

[iRHAPEzombiies]

He should put his tie on his ass since that's were he's talking out of now.

[Jenawahrheit]

Statesman Ron Paul is one of the few leading men in the Nation who can lead the U.S. on the Wise & Prudent Path to American Strength.

[RavensCry]

And I was one of those people who was trying to warn his supporters that he was a "Tax and spend Democrat", that he WOULD waste money on a bunch of ridiculous programs and pork, and that he WOULD raise taxes to do it...They ALWAYS do that...I can't believe anyone would think Obama would be any different, ESPECIALLY with Pelosi and Reid in charge as they have been for the last 4 years...The problem is, far too many people are completely unaware of what goes on in our government.

[drcoolfinger]

This man is a LIAR and a Disgrace to the office of the Presidentof our country ! ...and THAT my friends IS, a big fuckin deal!

[TNovaccaine]

@drcoolfinger Thank you!

[drcoolfinger]

$250k or less and your taxes won't go up, yea right.....Another lie from the progress sneak and his socialist agenda. The sad part is most of the counrty fell for his line of Bullshit. Nov of 2012 can't get here fast enough !

[talk2bill]

what a liar. He raised taxes.

[zivjax]

White House economic advisor Paul Volcker is calling for a new national sales tax -- a value added tax or "vat". So much for only hitting the "rich". That is going to affect everyone, rich to poor.

[Aprilmax010]

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed selling the L.A. Memorial Coliseum and San Quentin prison, releasing thousands of prison inmates, closing more than 200 state parks, wiping out welfare for a half-million families and terminating health care coverage for nearly a million children in low-income households. But even all that is not enough when tens of billions of dollars must be found.

Obama will bail out CA!

[Mr911insidejob]

LIES READ THIS::::::

infowars (dot com)/obama-open-on-middle-clas­s-tax-increases/

yeah ill bet he does increase it. thats why your not supposed to believe people that got millions and millions in funding from wall st (obama). wake up.

[baddwayne]

for the first time i have to pay federal taxes and not just a little, a lot and i made less than 40,000, thanks mr president, NOTTTTT

[ArnoldCSinko]

@baddwayne lol I make less than 25,000 this year and owed money to the feds this year. I got money back last year. This President lies more than any other before him. He is a puppet.

[jmkpns]

@ArnoldCSinko Same here. I made less money than you did last year and this is the first time I ever owed money. Remember that Obama was only going to tax the rich. Now that we're all paying the government this year, Obama will have more money to spend on Afghanistan. Please don't re-elect this guy again folks.

[TheRacistGuy]

Legalize prostitution!!

[lsquad1]

This guy's amazing. he's going to raise taxes on the middle class while not raising taxes on the middle class.

Obama!!!!

I'd like to see bush do that, and win a grammy

[19cohen]

what?who said he will raise taxes to middle class?

[FlagowyBialoCzerwona]

And what is the carbon tax? voluntary charity?

If Obama saying that wil do something - he is ... saying.

[louis12346]

This doesn't happen often enough.

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.

Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty,

[dorthydaines]

why should the people working hard for their money and earnning money have to give half to the government!!!!

[stevensonholt1]

If you notice, the love for Obama is slowly dropping person to person, even the african american side is thinking the same way.

[Deadpoolitics]

Geithner: New Taxes May Be Necessary to Fix Economy

abcnews - To get the economy back on track, will Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95% of Americans? In a This Week exclusive, Tim Geithner told me, We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically, Geithner told me. And thats going to require some very hard choices.

[yubbayubba]

Funny...and in todays news they said they just MAY up taxes of the middle class...hmmmmmmmm...

[maeon3]

When I see you all booing Obama with the intensty of Bush I'm going to point and laugh at all your collective hippocampuses.

[Susq15]

This is what people get for practically deifying a Chicago pol. Cutting wasteful spending, eh? Tax cuts for the middle class, eh? Surprise, surprise. He was lying through his teeth.

[hint0122]

of course he was. he lied to get elected

[ism3c]

@Susq15 How about now? XD

[atobug]

and now geithner is saying just this kind of tax is possible.

c'mon obama, you know you wanna flip flop.

[cryptor13]

Haha people voted for the 'Change' that they'll be left with in their pockets when he finally picks it from our fingers..Why were we stuck with this guy?.. Why did America vote for this guy?

[Hellpig]

2012 Republican presidential candidate slogan

"I will overturn every single Obama policy"

with the 73% disapproval rating of indies ..2012 will be a Republican landslide

[thepissedoffpotato]

lol I agree. funny what ever obama said in this video what McCain claim he would do, He IS doing. Also any conservitive (I don't want a repub just conservitive) All a conservitive shoul dsay is what reagan said about jimmy Carter to win the last debate. "Do you really want 4 more years of this?" lmao priceless There was a reason why reagan left the democrap party to becaome a reublican.

[maggutts]

Change we can believe in... more like change that deceived us. The "presidential candidate" version of Obama is what people thought they were going to get, but he changed once he won the election. I wish his campaign promises didn't have expiration dates on them.

[News4usall]

WOW.

AND NOW LOOK AT WHAT HE'S DONE!

[1kel40b]

that was before the election. check out what they are saying now. crap and trade is a hugh tax increase with more to come

[beadleslover11]

If his lips are purple, he is lying

[svuhelter7]

and he has bad breath!!!!hahahaha

[MartekTheSuperhero]

I never pay taxes. Fuck the USA Government

[rvborgh]

Yup no extra taxes... well who's going to pay for universal health care that the democrats are trying to push through... whos going to pay for cap and trade, who will pay for the increasing interest rates (due to QE, and the breaking of contract law that has happened to bondholders), and who is going to pay the hidden tax of inflation if the Fed can't withdraw all this liquidity they've introduced to prop up the status quo?

You... that's who...

[madcowrising]

AP 6/2/09: President Barack Obama is leaving the door open to taxing health care benefits, something he campaigned hard against while running for president. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., raised the issue with Obama during a private meeting Tuesday with the president and other Democratic senators and later reported the president's response: "It's on the table. It's an option."

[Kandimann]

I'm not paying any new taxes yet. In fact I get a tax credit on the windows I bought. When I do pay more taxes, then I'll be disappointed. Till then GO OBAMA.

[clairebreedlove26]

ObamaObamaObamaObama

[Valladaresvidz]

"I contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself by the handle."

-Winston Churchill

[toyznstuff]

LIAR LIAR LIAR. you got elected because of your race & that's it. you will not get re elected.

[goldenscrool]

i live in canada and today i heard obama

thinking on copy our taxation style to usa

and trust me if he do this you gonna have

a 1$ pen jump to 1,50 to1,75 a coke can

at 1,25$to 1,150$ almost 15% tax +TPS-TVQ and yo got 20% tax on evrythin you buy

[AntiShocker]

Obama AIR tax is coming (carbon tax).

[HammockTimeNow]

Actually they will tax farts...methane tax

[Nexus753]

Nice comedy. What is the name of this show?

[RestoreConstitution8]

Hmm... Well, it's obvious that honest people making $250,000+ will taxes more, but what exactly does Obama mean when he says "families?" What constitutes a "family" to Obama? What if a widowed woman (paying off husband's debts and makes <$30,000 a year) has an 18 year old a 21 year old who just moved out? How does Obama's tax plan help her? What if you're off on your own making $20,000 a year just to support yourself?

[HammockTimeNow]

Get another job or two,...clearly, you have limited skillsets

[urbanpsych0]

execpt he does spend money on stupid shit

[kipptumor]

I don't understand how Republicans think that poor=lazy or stupid. Not everyone was born with a silver cock in their mouth like you.

[kipptumor]

Wow, how impressive. You can parrot back Ruch Limbaughs drivel. What an F'n skill that is.

[kipptumor]

What the fuck? How is this recession Obama's fault again? I'm having a little trouble grasping this one.

[Cassalexi]

Oh wonderful! were doomed..

[FutureTimes]

If the Dali-Bama is elected the full gamut from Energy to Agriculture will be taxed. Resulting inflation will satisfy the Democrats thirst for our hard earned money. Higher prices will fuel higher taxes. This will neutralize any brakes given to the middle class and most of them will continue to blame Bush as the economy begins to rot.

[FutureTimes]

After failure sets in and Mrs. Obama is again not proud of her country the Dali-Bama will re-connect with his terrorist ties and share all of his inside knowledge of US government, military and national security. It's no wonder he is so secretive about his past. It would not be surprising if he is a double agent who infiltrated our government. In this country it could happen just as it already did with 911. Obama could be phase II and we are rolling out the red carpet for him.

[JPM0TU]

AND our taxes will go up further because you, Mr. NObama, will let the Bush tax cuts expire in 2010.

Guess what folks, our taxes are going up!!!

[JPM0TU]

NObama forgot to mention some minor details about his tax plan. I'll clarify.

[OBAMA]...don't worry everyone because if you're making $250K (sorry didn't get the memo from Barack), if you're making $200K, (what Biden changed the number again), if you're making $150K your taxes wont go up. Whew. I'm glad I got that straightened out.

Guess what folks, our taxes are going up!!!

[Butcherguitars]

bill clinton said the same thing, then raised taxes... no character no truth.

[Mikeishere1st]

BHO is right about taxes. He won't need to raise taxes on the middle class because they won't have ANY jobs when the few remaining factories close up and move to Mexico or China. You can tax them at 0% or 100% and you'll get the same revenue ... ZERO. Class warfare is the OLDEST page in the liberal playbook - you call THAT 'change'? Then just keep the 'change' thanks!

[failte54]

I am in Europe and education is free . We all have the opportunity. Free health care etc. We pay higher taxer but we get them back . France 60 % 40 and 20 % . Ireland 42% and 20%. First class education. Please Americans whats worng with you ? Thats why 80 % of Europeans love Obama.

[bpatl08]

I don't know anything about free university in Europe - explain please. I couldn't find anything on it other than applying for scholarships which is the same as the US

[MintJellyfish]

Thanks for the opinion, but lets see how it plays out.

The middle class get tax cuts (with Obama). The upper class get taxed even more than they are already being taxed, with a percentage-based system.

But, the upper class does not use public services (free health care, public schools, etc.) But, we pay for them anyway.

Lower- and Middle-class uses those systems, and barely pays for them.

This is a messed-up system, punishing the rich.

[nicksmith128]

HAHAHA!!!! That's such BULLSHIT!!!! You like him cause he's going to run America in the ground!!! And your coutries can gain more self pride not being stuck looking up to America!!!!

_Nick_

[chatelleraut]

it's not free! you pay for it indirectly through taxes! the only people who are getting it for "free" are poor people because they individually pay so little in taxes that it might as well be free for them. people who think things from the government are "free" have no idea. nothing is free. and the 20% of europeans who don't love obama are the smarter ones anyway.

[edm279]

Here are two reasons our taxes will increase:

1-as long as the USA insists on policing the world, there will be casualties among US soldiers. If they don't die, they will come home and require social security, incur medical costs, etc....and these costs are NOT accounted for in the military budget. Where do you think this money will come from?

2-as long as the Federal Reserve keeps creating money out of thin air, there will be inflation, which is an indirect tax.

[Mikeishere1st]

Over 50% of federal revenue is spent on ... (ta da!) ... ENTITLEMENTS!

[ufbret]

Measured against current law and against the promises of his fellow Democrats, Obama would rack up huge deficits. According to a recent analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, Obama's tax plan would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt, including interest, by 2018.

[billrah]

Obama has also stated in previous speeches that Retiree's earning under 50k would not pay any taxes.

I'm a retiree earning under 50k, and I haven't paid any taxes in 5 years.

I don't think my situation is unique, so my question is

Who are these retiree's that are currently paying taxes ?

What would help me is removing the Medicare premium for Part B which costs $2024 per year and there is no chance of getting that back.

[billrah]

I would suggest that instead of listening to either Obama, and McCain on the income tax, that you Google Who Pays Income Tax.

Then go out and read many of the charts that are available, interpret them for yourselves.

Obama says he won't raise taxes for anyone earning under 250k.

2 points

1. Congress must agree to any plan he may have.

2. What is he going to do about increases in

the FICA taxes already scheduled ?

[davodeky]

I see alot of emtional people here,some of who dont even know whet they are talking about.Now anybody who has good ears and a sound mind can find what this guy is talking about more resonable than what my grandpap Mccain is trying to tell the masses.

[soularimus]

Republicunt comment above

[Pv8man]

Umm, i think you just answered your own question wrong.

Said by tillerylakelady "So where is all this money gonna come from huh? Thats right from the rest of us. "

Really?, and just how, by raising taxes??

That's exactly what he is pledging not to do!

It's going to come from the billions of dollars that we won't be spending on Iraq, while putting the stress on the 4-6% of people who make over 250k for a little while for a change, instead of the middle and lower class.

[MintJellyfish]

Pv8man...

Excuse me? Putting the stress on the wealthy FOR ONCE? How did they get where they are? By sitting on their couch all day? No, they've been working hard their whole life. And by this percentage-based tax system, they ALREADY pay more taxes.

Sometimes, I don't understand you democrats.

[mherbc]

Do you like to drive on the roads, over bridges etc?

How about having police and an army to protect you?

Do you want your kids to go to school?

President Clinton had a very similar plan as Obama proposes.

Do you remember the lack of fiscal panic in the 90's?

Do you think borrowing money from China and Saudi Arabia like Bush and McAncient is smart?

I think not

People, we need taxes, and for them to be fair

OBAMA 2008 2012

[albatrossforlife]

Yeah...that way we can pay even more taxes. He's so full of shit. Obama has been lying hard since day 1 of this campain. He is just a sick power hungry fuck who is going to destroy our founding principals. All anyone really sees in him is a smooth talker.

[yokna7]

More Socialist bs! Its actually the democrats who are bailing out big business and promoting bad investing with all of the relief bills and the fed. Republicans are sheep too.

[scvcampdavis]

Socialist wack job....

[kalista34]

Great, he won't raise my taxes. But how about getting rid of them completely, hmm? Does anyone else in this country remember when we fought because of taxes on TEA? Even the income tax was illegal according to the US Constitution until the 16th amendment was ratified in 1913, and look at where we are now! Wake up my friends, this man won't save us!

[tillerylakelady]

lier lier pants on fire. Obamas idea of middle class is an income under $250 thousand a year.HOLY COW I don't know anybody that makes over $50 thousand a year in my neighborhood.So What is middle income?There cannot be that many people making over 250 thousand in America.So where is all this money gonna come from huh? Thats right from the rest of us.

[Pv8man]

Umm, i think you just answered your own question wrong.

Said by tillerylakelady "So where is all this money gonna come from huh? Thats right from the rest of us. "

Really?, and just how, by raising taxes??

That's exactly what he is pledging not to do!

It's going to come from the billions of dollars that we won't be spending on Iraq, while putting the stress on the 4-6% of people who make over 250k for a little while for a change, instead of the middle and lower class.