Axelrod Won’t Rule Out Tax Increase | washingtonpost.com — Gee, how could this happen with all the campaign promises of lower taxes.
President Obama’s top political adviser refused today to rule out the possibility that the White House might agree to a tax hike on health insurance plans that would hit middle-income Americans.
Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” program, David Axelrod declined to repeat Obama’s “firm pledge” during the campaign that families making under $250,000 will not see “any form of tax increase, not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
Instead, Axelrod said the president has no interest in “drawing lines in the sand”
And, is Axelrod running the country now?
Found by Matthew Duvall.
More taxes are on the way for everyone but us. You see we are tax proof. If our taxes are raised (yes we do this at times for appearance sake) it is you who will be charged more to pay our taxes. Simple huh.
Please elect more tax and spend politicians, their easy to buy, easy to control and in the end it is you who will be taxed more and have to spend more for products/services that we provide to cover our taxes. TYM.
But John, it won’t be a tax. It will be a surcharge. A surcharge is nothing like a tax. Or a user fee. Now that’s not a tax either. There’s a difference, but for some reason I can’t explain what the difference is.
If we need to raise taxes instead of borrowing from China, so be it. The important thing is we are in good hands now.
What is missing is Obama needs to be a bit more like Bush. You know, that smug “fuck you, I’m president” attitude that Bush had when he invaded Iraq and squandered our freedoms.
Obama needs some of that smugness now. Steamroll the repugs and the health insurance mafia and drive that singe payer system. Make that happen now.
That is s GREAT BW portrait of Obama, I must say.
You may not like his policies, but we got the hottest looking leader in the world !
#24 “You may not like his policies, but we got the hottest looking leader in the world !”
Oh brother! Then why don’t you and him go get a room?
#10 – jbenson2 – But doubling/tripling the current electricity rate for homeowners…
Sure, that would be a problem, if it were true. but it’s not (Talking Points Memo article)
#24 You know, come to think of it…it is a good portrait.
It looks very much like a Mussolini or perhaps Cesar pose, doesn’t it? I can see our glorious leader wearing laurels…
Oh, the hell with it. Let’s just outsource our med care to Canada. That would be cheaper than doing it ourselves. And, at the end of their contract, if we don’t like it, we can contract with France or Cuba or…
Seriously, I’m resigned to a national health care system. If not this one then the next one of the one after that. It will come. I just want to be assured of two things:
1) That a huge Federal bureaucracy will not ensue (current trend does not look promising)
2) That members of Congress will be forced to participate. They already have an ironclad retirement program outside Social Security and have already included an exemption for themselves for health care in the proposed legislation. That just ain’t right!
We pay these people to take care of us but they invent programs so bad they refuse to participate in them and then demand we be grateful for the backdoor skewering.
My apologies. I intended this to be posted in the article titled “Why do Republicans continue to lie about Canadian health care?” A mixup caused by tabbed browsing and more than a little lapse of attention por moi. I will not repost but Mr Dvorak may move it if he so wishes. It could be appropriate for this post also, I suppose.
Yes, more taxes may be on the way, because the economy was left in such shambles by the previous administration that even fundamental services are being threatened. Public schools, fire and police departments, basic infrastructure are threatened by the lack of economic health of the country.
We expect a minimum level of services from our government… if that can’t be met by current government income, then either taxes must be raised, services must be cut, or debt must increase. Which will it be John Dvorak? I know… let’s cut the military budget drastically… or Social Security… or Medicare (used by seniors that are utterly uninsurable by ANY private program)… where are the necessary cuts coming from now that we moved into a ‘code blue’ economy?
#23 So your problem was GWB’s attitude, not his policies. Oh, the mind of a mindless follower, plenty of space to plant ideas.
#28, Nimby,
“We pay these people to take care of us… … “
That’s the problem right there, Americans have been taught to think that the government is the entity that is supposed to “take care of them” when people should be taking care of themselves.
#30, We expect a minimum level of services from our government… if that can’t be met by current government income, then either taxes must be raised, services must be cut, or debt must increase.
So I’ll ask the question again, what possible “minimum level of services” requires a $3 trillion dollar federal budget in addition to the billions spent by local and state governments?
Is ANYBODY the least bit surprised…..?
On another note, by “giving” unions the majority of GM/Chrysler – (nullifying legal agreements with creditors out of order) , he has done exactly what Article 1, Section 10 of the constitution was written to prohibit the states from doing – “impairing the obligation of contracts”.
I’m sure that there is more fun to come…….
#11
Richest population in the world – and thanks to a trickle down, our poor are better off than any other countries poor.
This because of those mean, nasty, greedy, profit hungry, capitalists would rather do what they want with their own money instead of giving it to someone who’s only qualification in life is the ability to convincingly lie to masses of people and get elected.
#32, I’m glad you responded to that. I was stuck in the headlights, unable to move or comment.
Why is it that the people are always told to make do with less, when government NEVER has to make do with less?
# 4 You can’t do math. With cap and trade, tax on insurance to support general health care, and a few other goodies I’ve got him figured as trying for a least $1,500 more expense this year for just little old me.
# 11 Greed as you call it, working hard for a better life is what gave the US the highest standard of living on earth.
And Greed, trying to get free everything at the expense of others, is what is bringing it down.
I left one out.
The boss is responsible for what his staff say and do. That is why they call him the boss.
As Harry Truman said, “The buck stops here.”
# 14
And if you don’t succeed in becoming a millionaire, you are left with a fairly useless health and social system.
What an amazing way to treat people.