Video at link. As Glenn says...IÂ’M NOT SURE I BELIEVE THIS: Obama: 80% Of The American People Want Higher Taxes. But IÂ’m happy to call your bluff, Mr. President: I challenge you to introduce legislation raising taxes on 80% of Americans. . . .
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| Video at link. As Glenn says... IÂ’M NOT SURE I BELIEVE THIS: Obama: 80% Of The American People Want Higher Taxes. But IÂ’m happy to call your bluff, Mr. President: I challenge you to introduce legislation raising taxes on 80% of Americans. . . . |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #28 Why do you all act as if he is doing this in a vacumn? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-07-15 23:48 |
| #27 With elections in 2012 the difficult decisions will not be made. Then in 2012 with the realization that they can't make the tough decisions the child has been cut off from daddy. So they will sew and patch and make things work till then. Then the devil will have his due. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-07-15 21:39 |
| #26 Massachusetts has a voluntary higher tax option. How many people out of all those paying regular taxes have opted for the higher rate? Do you think its 80 percent? 40 percent? 5 percent? or less. A far more honest statement would be that many Americans want other people to pay more taxes, but not themselves. Some how that little part of the 'poll' never gets addressed. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-07-15 21:36 |
| #25 Some call it the herd effect. I have called it the flocking effect. What Obama is doing is he tries to direct his herd, "As soon as members know what other members think, they cease to act independently. They begin to follow what the group does, even to their detriment". The skill of a con artist is that he can go back time after time place after place to relieve people of things of value. Emotion is the key element they tap. Logic is gone altogether. "It's my football so we'll play by my rules" as said of JFK. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-07-15 21:19 |
| #24 Oops, trailing wife beat me to the punch. Only by a few minutes, dear Eohippus Phater7165. Great minds, and all that. :-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-15 20:36 |
| #23 If you look at that Gallup poll, 20% want the deficit problem solved purely by spending cuts. 73% want some mix of spending cuts and tax increases. So Obama, like a typical demagogue, ignored the 7% "don't know" and claimed 80% of the American people want higher taxes as part of the deal. Of course, the 73% know it will come from the other 27%. |
| Posted by: KBK 2011-07-15 19:34 |
| #22 Lying bastard. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2011-07-15 19:21 |
| #21 I agree with Dr. Steve. I have some additional ideas, but I'll elaborate them later. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-07-15 19:05 |
| #20 "I wonder what the terrible twos look like at his age?" Here's one answer, MTC. (Coffee and eye-bleach alert.) |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-15 19:03 |
| #19 "Obama: 80% Of American People Want Higher Taxes As Part Of Deal" Then raise taxes on the 49% or so WHO DON'T PAY ANY TAXES AT ALL. Even if it's just $1 a week. It's their country too (I guess) - let them participate in the "shared sacrifice." I'm sure that 80% if them would be pleased to contribute. Right, Bambi? |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-15 18:54 |
| #18 100% tax on boutique coffee shops, clove cigs and hemp clothing. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-15 18:30 |
| #17 Oops, trailing wife beat me to the punch. |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-15 18:27 |
| #16 Hi, IÂ’m Barack Obama, and I Just Make Stats Up Out of Nothing |
| Posted by: Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-15 18:26 |
| #15 Pajamas Media's Tatler blog has this: Where is he getting this 80% figure? How about “out of his hind end.” Gallup doesn’t back him up. Neither does Rasmussen. Gallup gets you closest, but you have do get a little creative with the numbers and even it shows that 50% would prefer a deal with no “revenues” at all (Ras shows 55% on that side). Update: In comments, Jay Caruso says Obama is citing this poll. Heh, he may well be. It’s a PPP (they’re the people who polled Rick Perry behind Obama — in Texas) and this particular poll is up to their usual standards. It was commissioned by MoveOn and other leftists, and cherry picks four states. If that’s the poll he’s citing, he may be outsourcing the making up of the stuff. I feel smug. ;-). But I did a bit of work on this kind of thing, long ago. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-15 18:11 |
| #14 I've always been a proponent of a 99% tax on self serving autobiographies written by politicians. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-07-15 18:07 |
| #13 If the House GOP had a spine Boehner and Cantor would offer to raise taxes on -- DVDs sales, rentals and on-line movie purchases Music sales Movie tickets Cable TV Broadcast TV 1% surtax on all advertising 50% surtax on incomes for all government employees who get a higher paying job on Wall Street 25% surtax on all legal judgments for 'pain and suffering' 25% surtax on incomes earned in the legal profession Do that and let's see how the Democrats respond. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-07-15 17:48 |
| #12 He may may be losing it. I wonder what the terrible twos look like at his age? |
| Posted by: My two cents 2011-07-15 16:12 |
| #11 I agree with pushing hard. He still has his followers and our rinos. If we had just stood up to him things would not have gotten this bad. Every time he took a vacation I was glad to be rid of him.The mainstream media also has done our country a major disservice as well. My hope is he is removed due to a mental breakdown. Biteme would be some improvement. So should he remain I must warn all "DANGER WILL ROBINSON" he will do more damage. |
| Posted by: Dale 2011-07-15 16:01 |
| #10 Push hard. Hire Trump if you need someone with brass balls. Obama is looking more and more like a psychopath. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2011-07-15 15:30 |
| #9 He's deep within his bubble, which is an echo chamber, of sycophants and true believers(tm). Time to push now when he has a total unrealistic view of the universe because his responses will come to this. Push, push, push. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-07-15 15:16 |
| #8 Push him HARD. He's so brittle a small tap will break him. The 80% number is like the 90% of guns used by the drug cartels came from the United States - pure fiction to push an agenda. The truth is that nothing Barry says can be trusted. He's a pathological liar. If you call him enough on it, he'll fold like a cheap suit. Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi need to be hammered as well. They're just as much responsible for the current mess as O'Bumble is. |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2011-07-15 15:12 |
| #7 No reason it can't be both, Silentbrick. :-( |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-15 15:04 |
| #6 an assiduous student of Joe Goebbels |
| Posted by: Unick Chager4828 2011-07-15 14:59 |
| #5 Show me the survey that claimed datum comes from, including the internals. I'd bet a lot of money that either he invented that out of whole cloth, or it wasn't done by a reputable organization within the industry. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-07-15 14:46 |
| #4 He is either the biggest traitor in American History and the history of the world, or he is the most moronically stupid ass monkey to ever exist. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division 2011-07-15 14:39 |
| #3 Congratulations people who still make money - if Obama wins this then you have just been drafted, and you will lose. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2011-07-15 14:23 |
| #2 Unfucvking believable! This guy does not know how to tell the truth. How can you negotiate with a liar? They |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2011-07-15 14:04 |
| #1 This guy's been bluffing his way through his entire life because no one's ever had the balls to call him on it. I'd love to play p0ker with him. I could use a 747... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2011-07-15 14:03 |