“Now the Republicans, you know when I, I talked about this earlier in the week. They said ‘well, this is class warfare.’ You know what? If asking a billionaire to pay their fair share of taxes. To pay the same tax rate as a plumber or a teacher is class warfare, then you know what? I, I, I, I, I’m, I’m a warrior for the middle class. I’m happy to fight for the middle class,”
President Obama said at the Brent Spence Bridge in Cincinnati, OH.
What a truck load this is! I think Pres. Obama generally believes a lot of what he says, but in this case, he is just being a politician. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to KNOW that if anyone needs to pay “their fair share” it would be the lower 47% of taxpayers who pay no federal income taxes at all. According to the Office of Tax Analysis, in 2002, the top 5 percent of taxpayers paid more than one-half (53.8 percent) of all individual income taxes, but reported roughly one-third (30.6 percent) of income. The top 5% pay over half the bill while the bottom 47% pay nothing and Obama wants to stick it to the top 5%!! More accurately, Obama wants to get re-elected.
What I don’t understand are the people who not only don’t think this is unfair, but think the rich should pay even more! These people sound like a bunch of children to me. Children are immature and don’t understand the world around them.
Obama is trying to generate energy in his base. And his base are leftist ideologues who hate anyone who has succeeded in our country. The sad part is that Obama is our president and this nation needs a president who is willing to fix our economy. Leftist politics won’t fix our economy. Leftist policies are what broke our economy in the first place and is keeping a strangle hold on it still.
2010 can not come soon enough for our country. We all know someone who is about to lose their home, their business, their job as a result of the silly leftist policies of Barack Obama. And it’s not because the rich have too much and pay too little. It is because the rich are being stifled and scared. And the rich (individuals and corporations) are those who employ the rest of us. Until they feel it is SAFE to start investing in jobs and business again, nothing will change in our economy. And Obama does not get that.