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links in article and LOTS of comments.
Today at 8:02am
Yesterday, PolitiFact.com fact-checked my statement about the coming $3.8 trillion Obama tax hike the largest tax increase in history. They did such a bad job of it, however, that I feel compelled to fact-check the fact-checkers.
First of all, they claim that there are Democrat proposals which would keep the tax cuts for individuals who make less than $200,000 and couples who make less than $250,000.
Unfortunately for PolitiFact, no such proposal exists. They admit as much, by the way, when they state that There are no formal congressional proposals yet to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, so we dont have precise estimates from official sources like the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That doesnt stop them, though, from claiming I confuse the issue by using numbers that assume all the tax cuts are going away. That is not the Democratic plan nor is it President Obamas plan.
Plan? What plan? There is no plan. All we have is smoke and mirrors based on an old Obama campaign pledge that if elected, he would exempt families making less than $250,000 a year from any form of tax increases. But this pledge was already watered before he was even elected. First vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden lowered it to $150,000. Then campaign surrogate Gov. Bill Richardson lowered it even further to $120,000.
A few months after the inauguration, even that last promise disappeared in a puff of smoke. When asked to reaffirm the White Houses commitment to the campaign promise of no tax increases for families earning less than $250,000, Obamas spin doctor David Axelrod declared the President had no interest in drawing lines in the sand.
The truth is that as of today, Democrats havent taken any action to extend any part of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for any income group and in this case doing nothing equals hitting American taxpayers with a massive $3.8 trillion tax increase.
read it all here with comments.
Sarah Palin: Fact-checking the Fact-checkers on the $3.8 Trillion Obama Tax Hike | Facebook
Today at 8:02am
Yesterday, PolitiFact.com fact-checked my statement about the coming $3.8 trillion Obama tax hike the largest tax increase in history. They did such a bad job of it, however, that I feel compelled to fact-check the fact-checkers.
First of all, they claim that there are Democrat proposals which would keep the tax cuts for individuals who make less than $200,000 and couples who make less than $250,000.
Unfortunately for PolitiFact, no such proposal exists. They admit as much, by the way, when they state that There are no formal congressional proposals yet to keep the Bush tax cuts in place, so we dont have precise estimates from official sources like the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. That doesnt stop them, though, from claiming I confuse the issue by using numbers that assume all the tax cuts are going away. That is not the Democratic plan nor is it President Obamas plan.
Plan? What plan? There is no plan. All we have is smoke and mirrors based on an old Obama campaign pledge that if elected, he would exempt families making less than $250,000 a year from any form of tax increases. But this pledge was already watered before he was even elected. First vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden lowered it to $150,000. Then campaign surrogate Gov. Bill Richardson lowered it even further to $120,000.
A few months after the inauguration, even that last promise disappeared in a puff of smoke. When asked to reaffirm the White Houses commitment to the campaign promise of no tax increases for families earning less than $250,000, Obamas spin doctor David Axelrod declared the President had no interest in drawing lines in the sand.
The truth is that as of today, Democrats havent taken any action to extend any part of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts for any income group and in this case doing nothing equals hitting American taxpayers with a massive $3.8 trillion tax increase.
read it all here with comments.
Sarah Palin: Fact-checking the Fact-checkers on the $3.8 Trillion Obama Tax Hike | Facebook