Is Obama telling people in his income group to voluntarily pay more in taxes?
Lead by example...
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Is Obama telling people in his income group to voluntarily pay more in taxes?
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Obama: families making $97,000 are "upper class" and should pay more taxes
Obama budget: Tax plans aim at rich
http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/12/news/economy/obama_taxes/index.htm
Back on Jan. 19, President Obama had said, “Let me be absolutely clear: I should pay more taxes, and folks in my income bracket should pay more taxes, and certainly folks who are making billions of dollars should pay more taxes, not because I want to take their money and just give it to somebody else.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/wh-its-gimmick-ask-obama-buffett-voluntarily-pay-more-taxes
he doesn't say anything about voluntary or otherwise. he simply says they and HE should pay more. he also supports buffet's rule. my analogy is solid as i'm not telling other people to voluntarily eat healthier. i'm saying it in the same vein as obama.
it is truly amazing the depths of idiocy you will stoop to in order to defend obama.
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so much for debate....taking the easy onceler route
What is to debate, I don't think your analogy is correct. I think Obama wants to increase taxes on himself and he will pay those taxes when it becomes law. To think he should pay more than he legally has to is stupid
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he even said he should pay more taxes....yet he doesn't. why wait until you are required to pay more? that is not leading by example at all. there is no reason he can't pay more now.
Fairly typical intellectual dishonesty out of you, fueled by your ODS. He has been talking about policy changes throughout his admin, and it's what he's talking about here.
You & SF should really have your own Obama-hate forum where you can call everything you see out of him "outright hypocrisy."
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Nice massive SuperFail. Why don't you now link to Romney paying a 25% lower rate than Obama?idiot
You do understand... One of them is campaigning on raising taxes, the other is not. You do understand that... don't you?
Relevent? No.
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President Obama paid an effective tax rate of 20.5 percent in 2011, according to tax returns he and first lady Michelle Obama released today. That makes the president’s tax rate lower than Warren Buffett’s secretary, who pays upwards of 35 percent and whom Obama often cites on the campaign trail as justification for increasing taxes on millionaires like Buffett.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/obamas-2011-tax-returns-show-20-5-percent-rate/
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/obamas-2011-tax-returns-show-20-5-percent-rate/
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dishonesty? he flat out said "I should pay more taxes"
what is stopping him from paying more taxes? nothing. but hacks like you will bend over backwards to defend him. there is no hate here, we haven't said any vile about him. if you can't handle the fact your dear leader is a hypocrite and does not lead from behind, then stop posting on a political board because you always get very sensitive and offended when someone dares criticize him.
No need for a meltdown. I'm not a big believer in symbolic BS. Obama gives a ton to charity; that's enough for me. You sound like toppy telling anyone who believes in environmentalism that they're a hypocrite if their house is bigger than 1,200 square feet, or a BDSer telling Bush he should send his daughters to war.
He's pushing for a policy change. It's not rocket science, Yurtsie.
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did he say the rich should only pay more taxes if the law requires it?
"I should pay more taxes"
funny how you get pissy when the facts are shown to you. the only one having a meltdown is you. you had to throw out the old "you hate obama"...as if someone cannot criticize without hating him.
further, you want to talk about false analogies....your example of bush's daughters is a classic false analogy. did bush tell parents they had to send their children to iraq? oooops. topspin's is irrelevant. no wonder you can't see the sound reasoning in the example i gave. you don't understand what analogies are.
It isn't hypocritical to play by the rules as they exist while advocating for the rules to be changed.
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wow
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you're kidding right....obama claims the rich paying more taxes will help the economy....why wait for the rules to change? lead now.
if i advocate for a law that advocates healthy eating, but now i gorge on junk food everyday....how is that not hypocritical?
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Yes.
President Obama is campaigning on the rich paying 'their fair share'. I stated he should lead by example given his effective rate is so low.
Candidate Romney is NOT campaigning on 'tax the rich more'. So why would he 'lead by example' on something he is not promoting?