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Isn't that what Obama promised in 2008?
The following are highlights from an email message sent by Siegel to his staff that was obtained and verified as authentic by Gawker:
Subject: Message from David Siegel
Date:Mon, 08 Oct 2012 13:58:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: [David Siegel]
To: [All employees]
To All My Valued Employees,
As most of you know our company, Westgate Resorts, has continued to succeed in spite of a very dismal economy. There is no question that the economy has changed for the worse and we have not seen any improvement over the past four years. In spite of all of the challenges we have faced, the good news is this: The economy doesn't currently pose a threat to your job. What does threaten your job however, is another 4 years of the same Presidential administration. Of course, as your employer, I can't tell you whom to vote for, and I certainly wouldn't interfere with your right to vote for whomever you choose. In fact, I encourage you to vote for whomever you think will serve your interests the best. [...]
Now, the economy is falling apart and people like me who made all the right decisions and invested in themselves are being forced to bail out all the people who didn't. The people that overspent their paychecks suddenly feel entitled to the same luxuries that I earned and sacrificed 42 years of my life for. Yes, business ownership has its benefits, but the price I've paid is steep and not without wounds. Unfortunately, the costs of running a business have gotten out of control, and let me tell you why: We are being taxed to death and the government thinks we don't pay enough. We pay state taxes, federal taxes, property taxes, sales and use taxes, payroll taxes, workers compensation taxes and unemployment taxes. I even have to hire an entire department to manage all these taxes. The question I have is this: Who is really stimulating the economy? Is it the Government that wants to take money from those who have earned it and give it to those who have not, or is it people like me who built a company out of his garage and directly employs over 7000 people and hosts over 3 million people per year with a great vacation?
Obviously, our present government believes that taking my money is the right economic stimulus for this country. The fact is, if I deducted 50% of your paycheck you'd quit and you wouldn't work here. I mean, why should you? Who wants to get rewarded only 50% of their hard work? Well, that's what happens to me. [...]
Read more: CEO Threatens to Fire Employees If Obama Is Reelected and Raises Taxes | NewsBusters.org
Romney Promising The World
In its report on “State and Local Tax Burdens as a Percentage of State Income” for fiscal year 2010, the Tax Foundation estimated “the combined state and local tax burden shouldered by the residents of each of the fifty states” and ranked them.
The top 10 states with the highest tax burdens as a percentage of state income are as follows:
New York, 12.8 percent
New Jersey, 12.4 percent
Connecticut, 12.3 percent
California, 11.2 percent
Wisconsin, 11.1 percent
Rhode Island, 10.9 percent
Minnesota, 10.8 percent
Massachusetts, 10.4 percent
Maine, 10.3 percent
Pennsylvania, 10.2 percent
The top 10 states with the lowest tax burdens as a percentage of state income are as follows:
Already among the most taxed in the nation, Californians will have to pay even more if Gov. Jerry Brown gets his way. Faced with a $16 billion deficit, Brown is pushing a ballot measure next month known as Prop 30 that would increase taxes by up to 30 percent on those earning more than $300,000. Brown claims that unless voters pass the measure, dubbed the "millionaires tax," he'll cut the school year by three weeks to save money. "It's either massive cuts to the schools and colleges or the most blessed, the most well-off paying 1 or 2 or 3 percent more," Brown told a group of supporters in Oakland.
With his proposal, Brown is taking a page from President Obama's playbook, appealing to middle- and lower-income voters to tax higher-earning residents. But public policy expert Dan Schnur is not convinced it will work. "It's been almost 20 years since Californians went to the ballot and voted to increase their own taxes," said Schnur, director of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California. "The decision for California voters is deciding, do we care enough about these services to pay more money for them? And before they can come to that point, they have to decide, even if we are willing to pay more money, do we trust the state government to spend it effectively?"
Brown said that if Prop 30 is voted down, "I'll manage the best I can." But he's casting it as a simple choice between closing schools and asking the well-off to pay more. "I will tell you and I'm telling you the truth. Everything I've seen in my lifetime tells me that the schools need more money and that the people who we're asking to pay can afford it," he said. Brown's supporters, led by California teacher unions, have spent more than $40 million in advertising for Prop 30. Ads say "the plan asks the wealthiest to pay their fair share."
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...ornians-to-pay/?test=latestnews#ixzz2A9ytyFOn
