Monday, April 15, 2013

Happy Tax Day!

Happy Tax Day!
The president’s tax return has been released, and as you might expect it is generating criticism from the right.
The president made over $650,000 last year and paid taxes at an 18% rate.  The president’s critics at FOXNEWS are using this information to paint the president as a hypocrite on the matter of taxes: “He wants to raise taxes on small business while he is only paying 18%...If I’m paying 36% why is a rich guy like the president paying only 18%.”
Idiots!
First of all…if you are paying 36% in taxes under the current tax code…you need a new accountant.
Go back and look at any speech on taxes that the president has made since taking office in 2008.  Look at any stump speech that he made in the last campaign.  He always said the same thing.  He said the Republicans want to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and the middle class while protecting loopholes for millionaires and billionaires.  He said that the tax rates for the richest among us should go up: “so that guys like me who can afford to pay a little bit more pay their fair share.” 
The clowns at FOX are making the president’s argument for him.  Why IS a rich guy like the president paying taxes at a lower rate than his staff?
Just another example of why research polls examining where people get their news show that viewers who consider FOXNEWS their primary news source are the "most uninformed" on matters of politics and current events.      

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