Hannity falsely claimed Obama tax plan would raise taxes on families of 4 making $50,000 a year »

Posted By bubba2 1 year, 4 months ago in News

On his radio program, Sean Hannity falsely claimed that Obama's proposal for rescinding the Bush tax cuts would result in families of 4 making $50,000 a year ... paying another $2,000 in taxes a year. In fact, Obama has proposed cutting taxes for middle-class families and rolling back President Bush's tax cuts only on people making over $250,000.

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    Klarissa1 year, 4 months ago

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    I'll believe that these proposals are the final version next November

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    Beeboppin711 year, 4 months ago

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    What Hannity meant to say was that the proposals will raise HIS taxes. This is merely a plea to his listeners and viewers to keep his tax breaks. Please. Please. Don't make poor Hannity fork over a few bucks to help pay for the war he's been promoting.

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    ameliog1 year, 4 months ago

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    Obama, you've just been Hannitized. It's like truth, only much less.

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      bluenote15221 year, 4 months ago

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      You guys don't feel rich but in Obama's book you are. Deal with that!

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      mmrhe1 year, 4 months ago

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      injest

      Obama supported an amendment that was attempting to keep the Telecom companies liable.

      It didn't pass and he voted for what he believes is the best bill they could get.

      It's called pragmatism in my world.

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      wildman65571 year, 4 months ago

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      I am not surprised that the Republicans are lying. It worked the last two elections. Why not this one?

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      nostalgia1 year, 4 months ago

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      All you have to do is read the article and see the confusion which exists over Obama's tax proposals:

      "According to the TPC analysis, under Obama's tax proposals, tax filers in the middle quintile -- those earning between $37,595-$66,354 annually -- would receive an average tax cut of $1,042 in 2009 and an average tax cut of $2,136 in 2012"

      This is a far cry from only raising taxes on anyone making $250,000 or more. Looks more like raise taxes on anyone making over $66,354/yr

      Plus the article does not take into account his paln for Social Security - remove the cap. This will raise taxes on anyone making over $102,000/year as well as raise taxes on businesses. $102,000 may be a good income in many areas of the country but try telling someone with that income in NYC or CA they are rich

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      AllenRocks691 year, 4 months ago

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      But over on www.dontvoteobama.net they include all raised taxes including the Global poverty act which will increase every American family's taxes up to $ 8,500 per year . So there goes all the kiddies education .

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      ningyo1 year, 4 months ago

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      barryO is just one big promise and platitude after another with real plan how to pay for all his big govt programs..about 1/2 trillion so far..a good insight how he really wants to do things comes from a recent speech where he said he would do something to control the high pay of corp CEO's..when asked how or where he would get the authority to reach into private business..he didnt answer but went on to give a comparison of CEO pay in japan..the only way he could really do anything about the pay rate of CEO's would be to nationalize american industry..which fits right in with his marxist beliefs..we're going to take those profits..we're going to take over your oil companies..its the hard left coming to town if this crew gets elected..hold onto your wallet and sell everything you have short

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      lloydm651 year, 4 months ago

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      Most of these post are slightly stupid,so let put forth a modicom of common sense.First off Obama is flat out lying about his tax plan,the money it will take to fund his plan is more than the profits of the rich.Even if he lets the Bush tax cuts expire,and confiscates all the profits from the wealthy, he will still come up short.The democrats have always used the middle class as the work horse, and when they are through riding us hard,they will put us up wet.

      PS Your are right about both men missing votes,they should have to resign from all state and federal office to run.

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      skyshadow1 year, 4 months ago

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      Hannity is biased, uneducated, selfish, prejudice, arrogant, deceitful, spiteful and annoying. Why would anyone listen to him?

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      jordan111 year, 4 months ago

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      OK, back to the subject. Hannity LIED about Obama wanting to raise taxes for middle Americans. What he really wants to do is reverse the cuts for those making over $250,000 a year. Is all this talk about FISA a diversion from that by some of you folks?

      Anyway, how's the tax break for the middle class that bushy gave ya'll working for ya? Does it pay for your gas increases? Do you pay more now in State, local, property taxes? How's it going with your total at the grocery store? How's the value of your extra dollars working for ya? But the best thing is, you got a tax cut! Lordy, lordy. Wouldn't want you to think beyond the end of your noses.

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      automan9091 year, 4 months ago

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      Wake up lefties. Obama will over tax all of us. He just deceives us all by not calling them taxes directly.

      The fact is that your income will be taxed more, your capital gains taxes will go up, he will tax oil companies which will be passed down to all of us at the pump, taxing the rich will cost us all jobs because the rich are business owners that employ us so we won't have any money to be taxed, and it is not fair to over tax the rich.

      That is socialism.

      Obama is a sneak that will pander to anyone that he is talking to at the moment.

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      antibrainwasher1 year, 4 months ago

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      Income redistribution: the raping of the american economy by the super rich during the Bush administration, starting with killing the inheritance tax, immediately creating a new global aristrocracy of fathers and sons of billionaires, who inherit their billions tax free.

      And they call increasing taxes for the super rich, who own 85% of all american stock, socialist.

      Thats like bush critizising someone for verbal fumbling, or McSenile acusing someone of being confused, or Cheney, accusing someone of murdering thousands for war profiteering.

      Its called point of view relativism. Take the worst thing republicans are doing, the war profiteering in a war, lied into existance for the benifit of neocon zionists military industrical billionaires like Cheney himself and Rumfield and Bush, and the rich income redistribution rape of america by the superclass of super rich corporate CEO's and private equity funds, and then blame it all on dems when the unregulated economy crashes

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      skyshadow1 year, 4 months ago

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      The right just sends job after job out of America and then complain when might have to pay an increase in their taxes because they are super rich. Give me a break.

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      ConquerorWyrm1 year, 4 months ago

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      Sean Hannity exhibits all the most lovable traits of a coward

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        automan9091 year, 4 months ago

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        I don't know where you get your 80% crap antibrainwasher.

        I guess you make up your own figures.

        Taxing the rich and giving to the poor IS Socialism.

        It never worked anywhere else and it won't work here.

        It will cause us to lose jobs and people will not have an income to be taxed. Just look at the Soviet Union as an example. A capitalist nation like us is doing much better than they did. It promotes invention, business, growth, opportunity, success, and the American Dream.

        Stop looking for handouts and take advantage of the opportunities of a Capitalist Country.

        Socialism sucks

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        ningyo1 year, 4 months ago

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        when barryO raises the corp tax rate and dividend tax--how will he keep me from closing my factory ,laying off all my employees and moving production somewhere that is more profitable..the only way to really do this as he claims he will is by nationalizing industry--we know thats their plan for the oil companies..and i have to question the figure that 1% of americans own 85% of stocks--thats just plain fantasy--the numbers are hard to divide up but the vast majority of stocks are held by mutual funds ,ira's ,401k's etc--mostly owned by people with wage earner jobs--its creeping socialism coming and its been a disater everywhere its been tried--why would we make the same stupid mistake--most of europe wised up finally and are moving away from that

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        skyshadow1 year, 4 months ago

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        So what is the right's plan to make things better? They don't want taxes raised in any way shape or form but if we ship job after job out of America, that is fine? A huge deficit is fiscally responsible?

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          Hobe1 year, 4 months ago

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          Hannity falsely claimed Obama tax plan would raise taxesâ;¦

          Prety SAD.... FOX News at one time was fair and Balanced?

          Bill Orilley, Hannaty, laura igram and fox news in general have become a Major Lying Disgrace....

          FOX NEWS with their Obsession against Obama have become another CBS one sided Bias reporting just like Dan 'the Liar' Rather....

          One could Never TRUST FOX News with these Lying Pigs, how sad...

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            Klarissa1 year, 4 months ago

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            http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_percentage_of_Am...

            Because there are many ways to "own" stock, this question can have many answers. For example, if you own a mutual fund in your company's retirement plan, you can be said to be the "owner" of the stocks that are in the mutual fund. That's in spite of the fact that you probably don't know what they are, and you have no voting control in either the stocks themselves or the mutual fund. The most commonly offered answer to this question uses this broad, and, arguably meaningless definition.

            The Mutual Fund Industry group - Investment Company Institute - has a lot of data on this subject. Its 2002 study, http://www.ici.org/pdf/rpt_02_equity_owners.pdf showed that 49.5% (or 52.7 million) of US Households owned equities in some way shape or form in 2002. However, only 21 million (less than 20%) owned invidual stocks outside an employee sponsored plan.

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