Obama Promises to Deliver Clinton’s Middle Class Tax Cut

And if you fall for this, then you’re an exceptionally dense person:

Democrat Barack Obama told voters Saturday he would push an aggressive economic agenda as president: cutting taxes for the middle class, raising taxes on the wealthy, pouring money into “green energy” and requiring employers to set up retirement saving plans for their workers.

Campaigning in Pennsylvania, a key battleground in the fall campaign, Obama said he would take a much more hands-on approach than would Republican John McCain. He again criticized McCain’s proposal for a temporary halt in the federal gasoline tax. It would “actually do real harm,” Obama said, by reducing revenue for road and bridge construction even as oil companies make record profits.

Speaking to about 200 people in Wayne, a Philadelphia suburb, Obama made no new proposals but emphasized earlier ones in light of rising gas prices, inflation and job losses. They include a $1,000 tax cut for most working families; a new Social Security tax on incomes above $250,000; a “windfall profits” tax on oil companies; a $4,000 annual college tuition credit for those who commit to national or community service programs; and an end to income taxes for elderly people making less than $50,000 a year.

A President can only do so much, of course, and just how much effort do you think ultra-leftwing extremist Obama, working with a very liberal Democratic Congress, will expend on cutting taxes vis a vis raising taxes and spending? I’m sure that if Obama wins the “middle class tax cut” will make it into the rhetoric for a while, but I’ll also bet that, like Clinton, Obama will find out that, painful as it may be (for you and me, that is), there’s just no room in the budget for a tax cut…this is because we can’t afford it…can’t afford, that is, to leave your own money in your own pocket. And “we” means “government bureaucrats” and not, you know, “me and you”.

Of leftist moonshine and American defeat is what you want, thne Obama is your man - on the other hand, if hard nosed reality and American victory is what you want, then McCain will be your man in 2008.

Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain, liberal lies, spending, tax cuts, taxes

18 comments June 15th, 2008

62% of American Voters Prefer Fewer Government Services With Lower Taxes

So says Rasmussen:

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 62% of voters would prefer fewer government services with lower taxes. Nearly a third (29%) disagrees and would rather have a bigger government with higher taxes. Ten percent (10%) are not sure…

…Republican voters overwhelmingly prefer fewer government services—83% of the GOP faithful hold that view while just 13% prefer more government involvement. Democratic voters are evenly divided on this question: 46% prefer more government services, while 43% prefer less government services.

Not surprisingly, conservative voters like less government while liberal voters favor a bigger government. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of politically moderate voters prefer smaller government. A separate survey found that most adults (56%) are worried that the next president will raise taxes too much.

Sixty-two percent (62%) of voters think American society is generally fair and decent. Twenty-seven percent (27%) think it is unfair and discriminatory. Those numbers have become slightly more positive over the past month.

A lot of bad news in there for Obama and the basic leftwing worldview…this, though, tends to confirm (with the proviso that polls are always weak reeds) my long held view that America is at bottom a center/right nation; any politician who can bring together the center and the right will have the majority, while any attempt to curry favor with the left will make a politician just about un-electable. This year is the best year for the left to win not because the left is popular, but because the right is less popular than usual, and many consevatives are threatening to sit it out…but if McCain can re-energise the right and carry with him the center he’s already got, then he will win in November.

Tags: Barack Obama, Conservatism, John McCain, liberalism, spending, taxes

16 comments May 27th, 2008

Democrats in Disarray

You know the Democrats are in trouble when the MSM has no choice but to report on it.

Democrats Blaming Each Other For Failures

Intraparty Feuds Dog Democrats, Stall Congress

Democrats Bow to Bush’s Demands in House Spending Bill

Dems cave on spending

Surge’s success holds chance to seize the moment in Iraq

Tags: Iraq, spending

26 comments December 13th, 2007

Democrats Fight Bush over Spending

How amazing is this? Last year, Democrats were blasting Republicans over spending too much, and they tried to portray themselves as the fiscally conservative party.

Now, they’re at odds with President Bush because he and the GOP want to control spending.

Tags: President Bush, spending

16 comments November 12th, 2007