The candidate of change?
Headline from the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Obama proposes tax boost
Shocking! And so it begins. The candidate of "change" has nothing new to say, nothing that liberals have not already been saying for my entire life: soak the rich, raise taxes, redistribute wealth, increase the size, scope and power of government, class warfare. As the first major party minority candidate, Obama is unique but he is hardly an agent of change.
COLUMBUS - Sen. Barack Obama promised senior citizens Friday that as president, he would protect Social Security benefits and provide universal health care.
To extend the life of Social Security, Obama proposed applying a payroll tax to annual incomes above $250,000, affecting the wealthiest 3 percent of Americans. The Democrat also proposed eliminating income tax for any retiree making less than $50,000.
"Secure retirement is no longer a guarantee for the middle class,'' Obama said during a visit to Oakleaf Village retirement center with his wife, Michelle. "It's harder to save and harder to retire."
It is not harder to save, you go to the bank and open an account. What is difficult for people is to curtail their spending. The definition of "necessity" has broadened considerably in the last few decades. Utilities used to be electric, gas, water, phone. Now utilities include things like multiple cells phones, digital cable or satellite TV, high speed internet. Our nation's family vacations have become more and more ornate and expensive (we still just got to my parents place on the lake, for free). It isn't hard to save, it is just hard to not spend on things that really aren't required. Like most cagey liberals, he paints everyone who makes more money (or at least is perceived as making more money) as rich. His universal health care program, if enacted, would be an enormous bureaucratic nightmare that would have to be funded by drastically higher taxes, and if you think insurance is expensive now wait until the federal government with no incentive for efficiency takes over. Barack Obama promises change but it certainly would be a change for the worse.
Headline from the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Obama proposes tax boost
Shocking! And so it begins. The candidate of "change" has nothing new to say, nothing that liberals have not already been saying for my entire life: soak the rich, raise taxes, redistribute wealth, increase the size, scope and power of government, class warfare. As the first major party minority candidate, Obama is unique but he is hardly an agent of change.
COLUMBUS - Sen. Barack Obama promised senior citizens Friday that as president, he would protect Social Security benefits and provide universal health care.
To extend the life of Social Security, Obama proposed applying a payroll tax to annual incomes above $250,000, affecting the wealthiest 3 percent of Americans. The Democrat also proposed eliminating income tax for any retiree making less than $50,000.
"Secure retirement is no longer a guarantee for the middle class,'' Obama said during a visit to Oakleaf Village retirement center with his wife, Michelle. "It's harder to save and harder to retire."
It is not harder to save, you go to the bank and open an account. What is difficult for people is to curtail their spending. The definition of "necessity" has broadened considerably in the last few decades. Utilities used to be electric, gas, water, phone. Now utilities include things like multiple cells phones, digital cable or satellite TV, high speed internet. Our nation's family vacations have become more and more ornate and expensive (we still just got to my parents place on the lake, for free). It isn't hard to save, it is just hard to not spend on things that really aren't required. Like most cagey liberals, he paints everyone who makes more money (or at least is perceived as making more money) as rich. His universal health care program, if enacted, would be an enormous bureaucratic nightmare that would have to be funded by drastically higher taxes, and if you think insurance is expensive now wait until the federal government with no incentive for efficiency takes over. Barack Obama promises change but it certainly would be a change for the worse.
1 comment:
Arthur,
There is a huge problem with what you are saying here. It makes sense and uses fact. Please do not use common sense and facts to talk about government. They have about as much in common and a Joel Osteen sermon and the subject of sin.
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