Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Obama and the Health Care Surtax

He's doing it again.

Obama is either a compulsive liar or he has lost touch with reality.

In an interview that aired this morning on the Today Show, Meredith Vieira asked Obama about health care and taxes.


Transcript

MEREDITH VIEIRA: One of the ways to pay for the health care bill is something called the surtax on some of the richest Americans, people who make more than $280,000 a year. I've never heard whether you support that or don't support that. Would you support a surtax?

OBAMA: Right now, the House has put forward a surtax. The Senate Finance Committee is looking at some other options.

What I've said is, and I have stuck to this claim, I don't want to see additional tax burdens on people making $250,000 a year or less.

No.

Obama said: "And 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."

Video here.

He didn't say he doesn't "want to see additional tax burdens on people making $250,000 a year or less."

That's so wishy washy. That's a change from what he said in the past about taxes. Obama stated flat-out, he made a "firm pledge," that "no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase."

He's trying to weasel out of his alleged FIRM pledge. What a waste of weasel moves! He already broke that pledge. There's no point in trying to rewrite history.

OBAMA: And by the way, despite all the hue and cry out there about how 'Oh, Obama's becoming like a tax and spend Democrat,' is what you hear from the Republicans, the only tax change I've made in the 6 months since I've been here is to cut people's taxes.

That's a lie.

Read his lips. Obama is lying.

On February 4, 2009, Obama signed a bill expanding the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and increasing the federal excise tax on tobacco by a massive 156 percent.

"The only tax change I've made in the 6 months since I've been here is to cut people's taxes."

BS. B-freaking-S.

VIEIRA: But would you support a surtax on those people making more than $280,000 a year to help pay for this health care reform?

OBAMA: I think that ultimately what we're going to have is a package which will probably include some additional revenue from well-to-do people, including me and you, who can afford to pay a little bit more so that working families, people who are going to their job every single day, can have a little more security on their health care.

VIEIRA: So, that means yes, Mr. President?

OBAMA: It means that that is one option among many, but what levels that's going to be at, where it's pegged at, you know, all those details are still being worked out.

VIEIRA: Do you think because health care reform will eventually help everybody that everybody should have to sacrifice? In other words, if you attach a surtax to people who are making $280,000 or more, isn't that, in effect, punishing the rich?

OBAMA: No, it's not punishing the rich. I think the way I look it is that if I can afford to do a little bit more so that a whole bunch of families out there have a little more security when I already have security that's part of being a community.

While Vieira failed to call out Obama on his tax lies, she was persistent in trying to get him to answer the question.

She made him look like a fool for dancing around the question. I'm sure that ticked him off.

Obama is really playing class warfare here. He's trying to make the rich seem selfish.

According to Obama, making the rich pay even more in taxes is not a punishment.

Paying taxes is good. It's spreading the wealth around.

Now having a baby... that's another matter. Obama sees that as a punishment in some cases.

"I am going to teach [my daughters] first about values and morals, but if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."

Oh, God.

Sometimes I can't believe this guy is the president.


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