Hannity falsely claimed Obama tax plan would raise taxes on families of 4 making $50,000 a year »
Posted By bubba2 11 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsOn 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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mesodude11 months, 3 weeks ago
And yet, we both know you had *no* such skepticism about re-casting a vote for Bush in 2004--DID YOU, Klarissa? Exactly... ;-(
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jmarks11 months, 3 weeks ago
Hannity's taxes? yes, now I see why they have grieve with Obama, Hannity is a rich man, he's using his poor listeners to protect his pocket!
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Beeboppin7111 months, 3 weeks ago
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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injest11 months, 3 weeks ago
"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."
Obama also vowed to fight FISA, even filler buster it and not to let it pass.
He voted for it in the same form he promised he would fight it.
He lied
Next
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rightfromwrong11 months, 3 weeks ago
The rich & super rich have to start paying their way and support America.
Why did Halliburton take it's office Dubai? Because they could max out their profits and make more money for Cheney.
Halliburton charges $100 per load of laundry & $25 for a hamburger. Who pays for it? American middle class! What do they get for it $135 per barrel of oil, 3,500 dead soldiers & over 30,000 disabled.
Thanks Bush & company
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Blackacereturn11 months, 3 weeks ago
Is this what we have become? Hannity is an idiot, to post an article on his opinions are equally idiotic. If you are a believer in his blatant lies, you should be ashamed to say it in public. This guy haven't met a truth he hasn't tried to spin. He plays Obamas tapes and then say here is what he really means. He say Obama hasn't done this and when it's pointed out that he has, he, (hannity) says he didn't do it well or as good as some lame GOPer. How can we indulge in this suborn drivel.
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ameliog11 months, 3 weeks ago
Obama, you've just been Hannitized. It's like truth, only much less.
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antibrainwasher11 months, 3 weeks ago
Largest "tv-news" audience in the world- faux news, owner the austrialian mogul billionaire Murcock, owner news corp, largest media globalist media empire in the world.
If Hanity says ANYTHING, murdock approves. If O'Reily says or does not say anything, its because he is paid by Murdock.
Its called point of view journalism. Its a racket, sold to american morons.
Like calling the 100% for profit 100% conservative, 100% hard right republican money donating american media "liberal biased". Its a propaganda scam, sold to the mal-educated army of american evangelicals, the base of the republican chrisitan zionist rural southern base.
Like the super rich give a crap about guns, gays, abortion, flags, or in fact this nation.
If you think NBC/Microsoft/General electric makes their money in THIS country, think again. They make a huge percentage as a GLOBAL multinational corporate entity. they don't need America to be profitable.
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mmrhe11 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Endoscopy11 months, 3 weeks ago
Tell that to his far left supporters. They feel betrayed about that and the many other flips he has made. Raising election funds when he promised not to. etc. etc. etc.
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wildman655711 months, 3 weeks ago
I am not surprised that the Republicans are lying. It worked the last two elections. Why not this one?
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mesodude11 months, 3 weeks ago
I've said it before, and I'll said it again. Cons would sell their kids into prostitution if they thought they could get a tax cut out of it. Unbelievably filthy cons like Hannity and others know that the hopelessly poorly educated and the extremely gullible only need to be spoon-fed pure raw sewage (like the lies that Obama is a Muslim and that Michelle Obama called somebody "whitey", for instance) once and they'll gulp it down as if it's ambrosia.
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nostalgia11 months, 3 weeks ago
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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mesodude11 months, 3 weeks ago
"All you have to do is read the article and see the confusion which exists over Obama's tax proposals:"
--Let me simplify it for you: Obama plans to roll back the tax structure to more closely resemble Bill Clinton's (remember back when we had a balanced budget, gas for a buck and change per gallon, milk for less than $4 a gallon, and the ENTIRE country was relatively prosperous?). The least needy will pay more again (which means they'll buy fewer yachts, I guess) and the needy and our bridges roads and highways will finally be taken care of again. Only the deliberately deceitful and the tragically uneducated could be confused by Obama's plan.
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AllenRocks6911 months, 3 weeks ago
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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antibrainwasher11 months, 3 weeks ago
That's a total lie, and I believe this website has been targeted by a group of new republican shills, organized and paid for by the McSenile organization, or perhaps some right wing think tank.
Judging by the low level lies and propaganda like from AR69, eaisly disproved by a quick google search, its low paid low level p*ssants, probably summer interns for fox news or some political right wing candidate.
Swiftboating lying partisan hacks. Partisan before american. These are the 20% scumbags that think getting rich war profiteering while 4500 americans are sent to death for a neocon zionist big oil fantasy is just the american way.
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ningyo11 months, 3 weeks ago
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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mesodude11 months, 3 weeks ago
"barryO is just one big promise and platitude after another with real plan how to pay for all his big govt programs"
--But none of your post makes any sense whatsoever. Didn't we get the largest government in history under Bush and the GOP? I think we did and I think Americans re-elected them--before waking up. Your post is incomprehensible because if you were so afraid of big government programs, REPUBLICANS would be the last people on earth you'd want to see running our country. You're illogical, irrational and entirely lacking in basic common sense. Period. I'm sorry but con ignorance is totally out of control. ;-(
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lloydm6511 months, 3 weeks ago
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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antibrainwasher11 months, 3 weeks ago
What a pantload. 1% of americans own 85% of all american stocks.
.01% of the super class of super rich in the world, own more than the lowest 50% of the world, 3 billion people.
The economy of the top 20 corporations in america exceed the economy of the american government.
Exon awarded its CEO in 2006 with 350 million dollar retirement gift, which was more that the anual income of all its employees by 10 times.
10 speculators, including George Soros, made over a billion dollars LAST YEAR in stock speculation, while the economy crashed.
2 billion people survive on less that 2 dollars a day.
YOur idiot lies and propaganda would go well on faux news, you should apply for an internship, if you aren't already working there.
When 50% of americans can't name the vice president, in a democracy it creates a power vacuum, and the super rich just fund propanda spinners and lying republican sills, like the great republican lm65.
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antibrainwasher11 months, 3 weeks ago
Fox news, owned by multibillionaire austrialian anti american Murdock, has the largest media audience in the world. But its only a division of News corp, the largest media empire in the world.
100% for profit.
Murdock and his sock puppets Hanity and O'Reily, don't report news, they make news.
Their job is to sell comercials, by creating controversy. Point of view journalism, non - objective propaganda to create controversy.
No suprise they hired Rove.
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jordan1111 months, 3 weeks ago
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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automan90911 months, 3 weeks ago
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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antibrainwasher11 months, 3 weeks ago
The lefties you are speaking about are the 80% of americans who are sick of propanda spewing brown nosing fox news watching morons who are just echoing the propanda from the right wing super rich funded think tanks.
The rich recieved the largest income redistribution of the american economy in the history of the planet during the bush administration, 99% of all economic gains over the last 8 years went to households earning over 350,000 per year, yet brainwashed idiots like the AM keep blaming lefties for trying to regulate a sinking nation.
The 80% of americans who can still think for themself: lefties.
The 10% that still sniff the gas from Rupurt Murdock's rectum in the hopes of making brown nose moron of the month award, that would be the McSenile swiftboaters for the rich.
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ConquerorWyrm11 months, 3 weeks ago
"He just deceives us all by not calling them taxes directly."
You mean like how the Republican buzz-words "user-fees" replaces "taxes"?
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jordan1111 months, 3 weeks ago
Wake up lefties. Obama will over tax all of us>>>
As opposed to what? Borrowing and spending our country out of existence? This "tax & spend democrat"nonsense is one of those propaganda lines that stick with conservatives to their own detriment. Tell me; what would you rather have; higher taxes to pay off the debt & increase the value of your dollars, or out of control gasoline prices and shivering in your homes when you can't afford to heat them? How about those rising food prices. You like that, do you? How about those bridges getting ready to fall? No problem? Roads a mess. No problem? This fiasco in Iraq. Who the hell do you think has to pay for that? Ya'll are ridiculous.
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Tangent00111 months, 3 weeks ago
"That is socialism."
Well, being middle-class, if it's between 'socialism' and fat-cat robber barons, I'll choose the socialism!
"...it is not fair to over tax the rich."
Who's talking about 'over taxing'? Dick Cheney has less of a tax burden than the average middle-class couple.
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antibrainwasher11 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Klarissa11 months, 3 weeks ago
If you are a union member of work for a state government or ae in education your retirement fund owns stock - so I guess we have a lot of super rich
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Klarissa11 months, 3 weeks ago
http://www.factcheck.org/search/
How many U.S. jobs have been lost since the inception of the North American Free Trade Agreement?
July 7, 2008
Actually, nearly 25 million jobs have been gained. Nearly all economic studies say NAFTA's net effect on jobs was negligible.
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Doddlin11 months, 1 week ago
I guess we can watch them send all the jobs overseas after Obama is elected. Unless the government just goes the path of China or Cuba and forces businesses into the hands of governent. That's what you'd recommend right? "Just force them 'richies' to take their money out of the bank, open a business for me, hire me and my children, pay us $10 an hour like we deserve, and don't allow them to take their business anywhere else where they could PROFIT". "Profit is evil, all that matters is that they hire me and pay me the amount I think I deserve and need to afford the 4,000 sq ft home I got that adjustable rate mortgage on". "It's not fair that guy down the street has that Hummer, the government should go take it from him and give it to me, I work hard".
Man, what system does all this sound like?
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ConquerorWyrm11 months, 3 weeks ago
Sean Hannity exhibits all the most lovable traits of a coward
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automan90911 months, 3 weeks ago
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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antibrainwasher11 months, 3 weeks ago
Stop looking for handouts, yeah right. I own both my houses, not looking for anything. I'm concerned about the unsustainable rape of the american economy and the massive income redistribution for the rich occuring under the bush regime. Never in the history of the world has the power to rape the world been concentrated in so few hands.
and one of the major players is Murdock, the godfather of faux news, and his hard right super zionist faux news CEO, president of the RJC, major contributer to the AIPAC, the most powerful and richest lobby in America, Roger Ailes.
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Doddlin11 months, 1 week ago
bingo
Problem with this socialist plan is that we are still in a free nation. Therefore, nobody has to leave their wealth here. It's far to easy to see all those "richies" move their wealth to other, more business friendly nations. Heck, mabye even Russia, since the have recently decided to make a move toward a more capitalist economy since their old plan didn't allow for much prosperity among the peoples.
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ningyo11 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Klarissa11 months, 3 weeks ago
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200...
About 25 percent hold individual stock. About 20 percent hold stock outside an employer sponsored retirement plan. About 6 percent hold individual stock inside a plan. As of 2005.
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newbie042011 months, 3 weeks ago
Raising taxes on the riches almost always gets passed down to the middle/lower classes which is why Obama's plan SOUNDS good but in reality will have a negative affect.
What he's doing is waving his right hand saying "I'm lowering taxes on the middle class" to appeal to more voters while with his other hand raising taxes on the rich, to again appeal to the middle class but in reality he knows exactly what he's doing, raising taxes on everybody.
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antibrainwasher11 months, 3 weeks ago
Wrong, completely false, republican propaganda, and the mantra of trickel down reganites everywhere.
One thing for sure, the rich own the propaganda machine where N, gets his talking points.
When you make 200 million profit and pay less taxes, it does NOT trickel down, you put it in gold and your kids inherit it tax free now that bush killed the inheritance tax.
The bush tax income redistribution regime, and those republican voting p*ssants who aren't even millionaires have created the most massive gift to the rich ever in the history of the planet.
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skyshadow11 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Hobe11 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Klarissa11 months, 3 weeks ago
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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Klarissa11 months, 3 weeks ago
There are also figures given for those who own equity mutual funds outside of an employee sponsored plan - 28.7 million households - as well as 35.9 million households who represent those who own either individual stocks or mutual funds or both. I'm not comfortable with either of those, as subsequent ICI studies suggest that the majority of the Mutual Fund investing households are holding their funds in IRAs or other tax deferred plans - so they, too, do not significantly benefit from a lower capital gains tax or lower dividend tax.
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