Registered Voter Wrote:
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> Johnny Walker Wrote:
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> > Registered Voter Wrote:
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> > > Obama said he wasn't going to raise taxes on
> > > people making under $250K per year. Oh wait,
> he
> > > did and he put in new fees and such that
> > weren't
> > > "taxes" per se but still acted the same.
> >
> > No he lowered taxes. I don't know what fees you
> > are talking about, but taxes have gone down
> under
> > Obama.
>
> My bad, he has proposed new fees over and over
> again as a way to say he won't be increasing
> taxes.
>
>
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/New-government-fees-
> pepper-apf-4120540659.html?x=0
>
http://blogs.wsj.com/environmentalcapital/2009/02/
> 26/tax-time-obama-urged-to-raise-gas-taxes-to-save
> -roads/
>
> Then there was his budget proposal...
>
>
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/02/obama
> s-budget-a/
>
> ..1) On people making more than $250,000.
>
> $338 billion – Bush tax cuts expire
> $179 billlion – eliminate itemized deduction
> $118 billion – capital gains tax hike
>
> Total: $636 billion/10 years
>
> 2) Businesses:
>
> $17 billion – Reinstate Superfund taxes
> $24 billion – tax carried-interest as income
> $5 billion – codify "economic substance
> doctrine"
> $61 billion – repeal LIFO
> $210 billion – international enforcement, reform
> deferral, other tax reform
> $4 billion – information reporting for rental
> payments
> $5.3 billion – excise tax on Gulf of Mexico oil
> and gas
> $3.4 billion – repeal expensing of tangible
> drilling costs
> $62 million – repeal deduction for tertiary
> injectants
> $49 million – repeal passive loss exception for
> working interests in oil and natural gas
> properties
> $13 billion – repeal manufacturing tax deduction
> for oil and natural gas companies
> $1 billion – increase to 7 years geological and
> geophysical amortization period for independent
> producers
> $882 million – eliminate advanced earned income
> tax credit
>
> Total: $353 billion/10 years...
So what you are saying is, he hasn't raised any taxes and none of these fees actually exist, so you are wrong.