Obama's Tax Policy

Obama's Income Redistribution and Tax Increase

A Cash Transaction
By Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Thursday, July 24, 2008

If Senator Obama becomes President Obama, my taxes will go up... way up. But I know neither Argentina nor anyone else will cry for me, because I am the rich guy Al Gore warned you about—the one that got all those tax cuts from the evil Bush administration.

Yes, I am part of the one percent of Americans that paid an astounding 40% of all federal income tax in 2006. According to recently released IRS figures, about 50% of my fellow Americans paid no federal income tax at all that year. My fellow one-percenters and I covered for them. But, for some, it is still not enough.

Senator Obama believes in "income redistribution," a concept practiced by Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest. Like Robin, Obama wants to take from the rich and give to the not-so-rich. He wants to raise taxes big time on those making $250,000 or more.

That means that if you live in New York and earn a quarter of a million bucks, you could be paying close to half of your income in taxes. Even Robin Hood might find that somewhat extreme.

And then there's the accountability factor. Without being forced by the federal government, I give plenty of cash to folks who need a hand. But I check out the charities before the check goes in the mail. I make sure my donations go directly to people who, through no fault of their own, find themselves in difficult circumstances.

Will Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid do that when the massive income redistribution train gets ready to roll? No, they will not.

President Obama and a Democratic congress will likely dole out entitlements like free health care, child care and cash payments to anyone who falls under a certain income level, no matter what their circumstance. That means that people who drink gin all day long will be getting some of my hard-earned money. Folks who dropped out of school, who are too lazy to hold a job, and who smoke reefer 24/7 will all get some goodies in the mail from Uncle Barack and Aunt Nancy, funded by me and other rich folks.

There will be no drug testing, no background checks, no accountability for those receiving the government's largesse. If you're an American citizen (or even an illegal alien) who doesn't make much money, you'll get stuff.

There is something unsettling about that. Under the Republican Bush administration, tax money presently pays for abortions, Viagra, condoms, sugar-laden food, dangerous housing in blighted neighborhoods and prescription drugs that will send you to the land of Oz.

But if you complain about any of this, you're an uncharitable greedhead.

Well, I am complaining. I don't want my money supporting some layabout who wants to get high all day long. Robin Hood wouldn't give those people money. The feds shouldn't either.

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Is Obama's Trip to Iraq really a Success?

Read truth about Obama's entourage of foreign trip what's really going on behind the scenes

We don't hear about what's really going on behind scenes of Obama's foreign trip. We see pictures of entourage of people surrounding Barack Obama instead of substance of any conversation with reporters. One thing is sure however, he is doing a good job utilizing the media.

Here is Robert Novak reveals his take on Obama's foreign trip.

July 23, 2008
Vol. 43, No. 15b, Washington, DC

To: Our Readers

Outlook

1. The Afghanistan-Iraq segment of Sen. Barack Obama's foreign trip was an unqualified success. He committed no blunder as Republicans had hoped he would, and had the good luck to play into the Iraqi government's negotiations for a U.S. treaty—making it seem as though the Iraqis endorsed his withdrawal plans. The visit increased Republican defeatism and Democratic triumphalism.
   
2. The response by Republicans is that any time the inexperienced Obama enters the realm of Iraq policy he has entered into Sen. John McCain's area of expertise. But this may be a case of whistling past the graveyard.
   
3. The problem for McCain is that Obama can now say that there is a difference of only months between his proposal for withdrawal and that of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The danger for Obama is that he has strayed far from his strict and simple 16-month withdrawal pan, which was instrumental in defeating Sen. Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Obama also is plagued by not admitting that the Surge, which he opposed, is the reason that Iraq is secure enough for him to visit.
   
4. Obama has known since the beginning of his campaign what was needed to bridge the Iraq demands of Democratic primary voters and general election voters: a convincing argument that withdrawal can be done honorably and safely.As Obama puts it, we need to be “as careful getting out of Iraq as we were careless getting in.” The “al-Maliki endorsement” greatly bolsters Obama on this score.
   
5. As Obama prepared to arrive in Baghdad, the McCain campaign leaked to us word that he would name his vice presidential candidate this week. As we go to press, this seems most unlikely, and appears a clumsy attempt by McCain aides to create a buzz in the midst of Obama's triumphal tour.
   
6. The identity of McCain's running mate, whenever he is named, still is unknown. But former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney now leads all speculation. He is getting a boost from private polls that show his presence on the ticket puts McCain ahead in Michigan—changing that state from Blue to Red,
   
7. The McCain candidacy appears constricted and wooden, while Obama's is expansive and effective. The McCain hope still is that inherent public doubt about Obama's ability to be President in a dangerous world will persist.

Mr. Novak is a syndicated columnist and editor of the Evans-Novak Political Report, a political newsletter he founded in 1967 with Rowland Evans.

Read his book 'The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington.'

AP wire service insults Tony Snow

Our Tribute to Tony Snow: We know a good person when we see one, don't we?

Last Saturday July 12, Tony Snow passed away from cancer at Georgetown hospital in Washington, DC. He was 53 years old. I never met him but I have watched him over the years at Fox News Sunday and enjoyed his style of interviews, insightful and straight forward talking points. I agreed with his traditional point of view most of time.

Not surprisingly how much he was well respected by the people, even people who disagreed with his point of view. His thoghtfullness, grace, and smile were not only remembered by many but his kindness, decency, and humanity also in everyone's praise along with his career achievements.

He re-entered politics and succeeded as the Press Secretary of the White House for President Bush in 2006. He was known as one of President Bush's best hires.
I admired how he handled the White House media.

We have seen people come and gone in the same status but I never had been touched by the rememberance of a person by others before. Tony Snow had lived his life full and a good life. He would missed by his family, friends, and strangers alike.

Here is AP wire service insults Tony Snow: You judge.

July 14, 2008

The Associated Press wire service's obituary on Tony Snow was little more than a platform to insult the former Fox News anchor and ex-presidential press secretary. Read the AP story yourself and then let its boss know how you feel.

Cancer claims ex-Bush press secretary Tony Snow
by Douglass K. Daniel

WASHINGTON (AP) - Tony Snow, a conservative writer and commentator who cheerfully sparred with reporters in the White House briefing room during a stint as President Bush's press secretary, died Saturday of colon cancer. He was 53.

"America has lost a devoted public servant and a man of character," President Bush said in a statement from Camp David, where he was spending the weekend. "It was a joy to watch Tony at the podium each day. He brought wit, grace, and a great love of country to his work."

Snow died at 2 a.m. at Georgetown University Hospital, according to former employer Fox News.

Snow, who served as the first host of the television news program "Fox News Sunday" from 1996 to 2003, would later say that in the Bush administration he was enjoying "the most exciting, intellectually aerobic job I'm ever going to have."

Snow was working for Fox News Channel and Fox News Radio when he replaced Scott McClellan as press secretary in May 2006 during a White House shake-up. Unlike McClellan, who came to define caution and bland delivery from the White House podium, Snow was never shy about playing to the cameras.

With a quick-from-the-lip repartee, broadcaster's good looks and a relentlessly bright outlook - if not always a command of the facts - he became a popular figure around the country to the delight of his White House bosses.

He served just 17 months as press secretary, a tenure interrupted by his second bout with cancer. In 2005 doctors had removed his colon and he began six months of chemotherapy. In March 2007 a cancerous growth was removed from his abdominal area and he spent five weeks recuperating before returning to the White House.

"All of us here at the White House will miss Tony, as will the millions of Americans he inspired with his brave struggle against cancer," Bush said.

Snow resigned as Bush's chief spokesman last September, citing not his health but a need to earn more than the $168,000 a year he was paid in the government post. In April, he joined CNN as a commentator.

Vice President Dick Cheney was "deeply saddened" by the news of Snow's death, his spokeswoman said.

As press secretary, Snow brought partisan zeal and the skills of a seasoned performer to the task of explaining and defending the president's policies. During daily briefings, he challenged reporters, scolded them and questioned their motives as if he were starring in a TV show broadcast live from the West Wing.

Critics suggested that Snow was turning the traditionally informational daily briefing into a personality-driven media event short on facts and long on confrontation. He was the first press secretary, by his own accounting, to travel the country raising money for Republican candidates.

Although a star in conservative politics, as a commentator he had not always been on the president's side. He once called Bush "something of an embarrassment" in conservative circles and criticized what he called Bush's "lackluster" domestic policy.

Most of Snow's career in journalism involved expressing his conservative views. After earning a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Davidson College in North Carolina in 1977 and studying economics and philosophy at the University of Chicago, he wrote editorials for The Greensboro (N.C.) Record, and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk.

He was the editorial page editor of The Newport News (Va.) Daily Press and deputy editorial page editor of The Detroit News before moving to Washington in 1987 to become editorial page editor of The Washington Times.

National Press Club President Sylvia Smith said Snow "was a respected colleague to many in the National Press Club, and we mark his death with deep regret."

Snow left journalism in 1991 to join the administration of the first President Bush as director of speechwriting and deputy assistant to the president for media affairs. He then rejoined the news media to write nationally syndicated columns for The Detroit News and USA Today during much of the Clinton administration.

Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News, called Snow a "renaissance man."

Robert Anthony Snow was born June 1, 1955, in Berea, Ky., and spent his childhood in the Cincinnati area. Survivors include his wife, Jill Ellen Walker, whom he married in 1987, and three children.

Associated Press writer Jennifer Loven contributed to this report.
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Who is Barack Obama?

The other day I felt sting on my back when I heard Obama saying that it's embarrasing to him when Europeans come over here they speak English but we, Americans couldn't speak French when we visit Europe. His arrogance is at its best.

He also said that our children should learn to speak Spanish at the Latin American Group Meeting. His solution to our failing school is to teach children to speak French and Spanish at school; to Obama it's not math or science can improve our education.

His inspiration and idea of the country must have come from Europe. You wonder where he got all the socialistic ideas on his policy issues such as universal healthcare and wealth redistribution.

Anyway, I wanted talk about his energy policy. The following article is from Bruce Hawkins, exposeobama.com that explains Barack Obama's energy policy.

What is Barack Obama's Energy Solution

"We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times...and then just expect that other contries are going to say OK...That's not leadership. that's not going to happen."
Barack Obama, Campaign Speech, May 2008

His solutions to the high price of gasoline is for you to eat less, drive a samll car and let your family freeze in the winter. In his mind, the problem is NOT that you are being forced to pay over $4.00 for a gallon of gasoline at the pump...the problem is NOT that your family is facing the prospect of a long cold winter because of rising energy costs...the problem is NOT that you're paying insanely high prices for food at the grocery store because of rising energy costs. The problem is "bitter" folks like you that "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like you."

In the 1970's when we waited in long lines for hours to get our ration of gasoline in the summer and watched our families freeze in the winter, Jimmy Carter told us to lower our thermostats and put on a sweater.

Fortunately, the Wall Street Journal saw the parallels to Jimmy Carter's remark on energy policy when no other media noticed. "For a candidate claiming the mantle of 'change,' Mr. Obama's energy policy might as well have been drafted in the 1970s. He supports punitive new windfall profits taxes on Big Oil, which won't do anything for supply; as well as at least $10 billion a year in new subsidies for 'alternative' energy technologies, which may take years or decades to pan out, if they ever do."

His energy solution is NO to drilling, NO to Nuclear Energy, NO to Coal energy and NO to WindPower.

On the other hand, alternative fuels like ethanol are great for the environment and reduce the price of gasoline at the pump...RIGHT?

WRONG! Even Rolling Stone has weighed in on it. "Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper. Our current ethanol production represents only 3-5 percent of our gasoline consumption--yet it consumes twenty percent of the entire U.S. corn crop, causing the price of corn to double in the last two years and raising the threat of hunger in the Third World."

"So why bother? Because the whole point of corn ethanol is not to solve America's energy crisis, but to generate one of the great political boondoggles of our time."

"And since America provides two-thirds of all global corn exports, the impact is being felt around the world. In Mexico, tortilla prices have jumped sixty percent, leading to food riots. In Europe, butter prices have spiked forty percent, and pork prices in China are up twenty percent. By 2025, according to Runge and Senauer, rising food prices caused by the demand for ethanol and other biofuels could cause as many as 600 million more people to go hungry worldwide."

Various polls are indicating that a vast majority of Americans support drilling for more oil domestically as one means of alleviating our energy problems .

The rallying cry of "Drill Here, Drill Now" is resounding across this great nation.

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Americans Are Smarter than Barack Obama Thinks We Are.

Change we can...What's his change? Is America's Future in Danger?



I don’t know about you but Obama really scares me for America’s future. We are looking for a man who will rule the most powerful country in the world and unsettling to think that Obama might usher into the White House.

We have believed that America is a land of dreams and opportunity that no other country provides. Believing honesty and working hard will get you somewhere because America is the only country that you can make that dream come true.

Recent days, I have been hearing college students and young people who are blindly supporting Obama because believing that he will provide universal healthcare and distribute wealth from rich to poor. They want Socialistic Society and give them things free. Lack of reasoning of young people scares me. I think he will change America into Socialistic Country he can as his slogan says.

I even heard from some people that they would vote Obama because they want to change. It sounds good but they have no idea what kind of change. Some even goes further saying they will vote Obama because he’s a black and that’s change enough. Don’t these reasonings scare you?

Particularly, Obama has portrayed himself a new politician who will change how Washington conducts businesses. There is no doubt that he will change the Washington to be worse than it is. He is like any other politician who is unwilling to take clear stands on tough issues and abandoning his principles when he finds it advantageous.

I hope Americans are smarter than what I see.

Barack Obama has been known to be the most liberal Democrat in the Senate. Hillary and Kennedy are not even close. His extreme makeover on his profile and his flip-flop on issues has taken a moderate stance in recent years. No one knows who he is. I believe that he doesn’t even know who he is himself at this point.

I would believe if he has shown any kind of character who stands for something and a clear account of views as Obama spokesman said about him, “He’s committed to making decisions he thinks are right.” “He’ll continue to do that as president.” If this doesn’t scare you, I don’t know what will.

Everyone changes their minds in certain issues once in a while including myself however; we trust and vote for our leaders to have core fundamental belief on certain issues. We don’t want a leader who is expedient on important issues because they are popular and advantageous. Obama hasn’t shown any core value to any of these issues: NONE.

According to Los Angeles Times, Obama has long supported the death penalty but recently he has expressed doubts about whether it’s an effective deterrent and applied fairly. His response to last week’s Supreme Court decision barring the death penalty for child rape by saying that states should be able to impose such a penalty for “heinous” crimes.

Obama also expressed completely opposite position on his own stand about another Supreme Court ruling, which struck down a gun ban in Washington, D.C. Now, Obama welcomes the ruling saying that, “reinforces that if we act responsibly, we can both protect the constitutional right to bear arms and keep our communities and our children safe.” Even though, he never viewed clearly the Washington gun ban as constitutional.

He used call the North American Free Trade Agreements a “big mistake” during the primary season and saying it should be negotiated; however, Obama has recently toned down his rhetoric and emphasized his record of support for free trade. This angered many union and liberal activists.

Last month, he announced that he would opt out of the public financing system for presidential elections, continuing to raise money from private donors, rather than stick with his pledged to take public funds if McCain did. He changed his stand after finding out that he could raise more money.

He backed Bush’s Faith Based in the public schools yesterday. Even though, he criticized Bush for the program saying, “It’s a failed program and it’s only for photo op.’’ Now, he is portrayed himself religious person but his action showed otherwise.

His lack of principles proves he has no character. No matter how extreme his makeover maybe, he cannot restore a strong spine on his body without principles and one’s character.

I never have seen anyone who lies with straight face like Obama. He might fool some people but I know at the end, most Americans are smarter than he thinks.