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Published Oct. 7, 2008
OK, I have to admit the one big thing that scares me about Obama is all this talk about tax increases to support programs that won't benefit me. Selfish as that may sound, I do not believe in paying higher taxes to benefit those who make a career of mooching off the government. I think welfare is a wonderful concept, but it's a shame so many people abuse it.
When I say programs that won't benefit me....I mean things like his healthcare plan. I read somewhere that his government provided health care won't be for 'everyone', just kids, and moreso, just kids in families who don't have access to employer-provided insurance, and don't already qualify for current gov't programs such as medicare.
What about the family like mine, that has employer-provided health insurance, but it's so ridiculously expensive it's cheaper to go to BCBSNC and get it ourselves? My kids still would not qualify...yet my take home pay would be reduced because my taxes will be increased, to pay for this public healthcare that my kids cant make use of, leaving our pay inadequate to even afford the insurance we have now!
It's things like this that make me very nervous. We aren't 'poor', but we aren't rakin' in the big bucks either. We make enough money to cover our living expenses which include the mortgage (not an extravigant house, it's 30 years old and modest), food, gas, utilities, etc. We have no credit debt other than the house, no car pmt, no credit cards.
If our taxes increase drastically, our take home pay will decrease, and we will no longer be able to afford our meager lifestyle. We'd have to sell the house and hope to find a rent in a safe neighborhood suitable to raise two kids for much less than our 'huge' $800/month mortgage. We'd have to downsize our already humble living arrangements, and still would not benefit from any of these social programs that would put us in this mess in the first place.
So sway me.... why would a family like us want to support a guy who is going to jack up taxes and cause us to lose our way of life? We pay our bills on time, we didn't buy a house too large, we don't roll around in brand new cars (heck, we only have one car and its paid for!)...we don't deserve to be knocked down, but with the proposed tax increases, we certainly will be.
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GOLO member since November 15, 2007
October 7, 2008 4:31 p.m.
of all the people i know on welfare, not a single one of them is collecting because of a hard luck story, and all of them are taking advantage of the system...something i dont feel America needs to be paying for.
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October 7, 2008 4:27 p.m.
October 7, 2008 4:00 p.m.
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October 7, 2008 2:38 p.m.
GOLO member since November 15, 2007
October 7, 2008 2:36 p.m.
You need to listen to the small business owner instead of factcheck. org. I hear this from business after business owner...........
GOLO member since July 7, 2007
October 7, 2008 2:36 p.m.
The claim: Palin said Sen. Barack Obama voted 94 times to increase taxes.
The facts: Non-partisan FactCheck.org called that count, which has been cited before by Republicans, "inflated and misleading." Examining the 94 votes at issue, FactCheck.org found that 23 were for measures that would have produced no tax increase at all; they were against proposed tax cuts. Seven were in favor of measures that would have lowered taxes for many, while raising them on a relative few, either corporations or affluent individuals, according to FactCheck.org, which is a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
The 94 tally includes tw
GOLO member since July 23, 2008
October 7, 2008 2:33 p.m.
The claim: Palin said Obama's plan to raise the top income tax rate would affect "millions of small businesses." Biden responded that the vast majority of small businesses do not report more than $250,000 in income.
The facts: The liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, citing 2003 data from the non-partisan Tax Policy Center, said in a report that 436,000 tax filers with small-business income — 1.3% of the 32.8 million filers with small-business income — were subject to the top income tax rate. Another Tax Policy Center analysis concluded that "roughly 97% of small businesses would not be affected at all by increases in the top two tax rates."
Len Burman, who runs the Tax Policy Center, said in an interview Thursday: "The vast majority of small businesses would not be affected by the Obama tax increases" because they are not in the top two tax brackets. He added, "Most small business owners have relatively modest incomes."
GOLO member since July 23, 2008
October 7, 2008 2:32 p.m.
The claim: Palin said Obama voted against funding U.S. troops in Iraq.
The facts: Palin's charge is true, but FactCheck.org has said the statement paints "an incomplete picture." Obama voted against troop funding once and said at the time that he wanted to fund the troops, but the bill in question didn't include a requirement that President Bush begin bringing troops home. "Obama cast at least 10 votes for war-funding bills," FactCheck.org says
GOLO member since July 23, 2008
October 7, 2008 2:31 p.m.
The claim: Palin said Obama has proposed $1 trillion in new spending.
The facts: Both the non-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget and the conservative National Taxpayers Union have come up with figures close to that — over four years. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, however, also says Obama has proposed nearly that much in SPENDING CUTS.
GOLO member since July 23, 2008
October 7, 2008 2:30 p.m.
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