Why I'm Voting For Obama

[Sundial]

1. Obama has cut my taxes.

POLITIFACT: Barack Obama says taxes are lower for middle class today than when he took office

Second-lowest 20 percent

2008 tax burden: $1,715
2011 tax burden: $1,396
Decline of $319

2008 tax rate: 6.7 percent
2011 tax rate: 5.7 percent
Decline of 1 percentage point

Middle 20 percent

2008 tax burden: $6,290
2011 tax burden: $5,535
Decline of $775

2008 tax rate: 13.6 percent
2011 tax rate: 12.4 percent
Decline of 1.2 percentage points

Second-highest 20 percent

2008 tax burden: $13,749
2011 tax burden: $13,078
Decline of $671

2008 tax rate: 17.4 percent
2011 tax rate: 16.5 percent
Decline of 0.9 percentage points

So for each of the three middle quintiles, both the amount of tax paid and the effective tax rate paid declined.

Our ruling

Every taxpayer is different, and some "middle-class" Americans may have seen their tax rate or their tax burden go up for one reason or another. But Obama was talking about "the average middle-class family." The changes to the tax code made under Obama and the analyses by the Tax Policy Center show that for the middle 60 percent of the income distribution, both the average tax paid and the average tax rate fell between 2008 and 2011. We rate Obama’s statement True.

 

[Sundial]

2. Obama is fixing the economy.

 

[Sundial]

3. Bin Laden is dead.

 

[theHawk]

Translation: "I'm a political hack - that's why"

 

[WillowTree]

The United Postal Service is gonna lay off about 30 thousand people in March.

 

[Truthmatters]

Because your party forced them to fund 75 years of retirement in ten years.

The PO is fine but they are under a burden NO OTHER ENTITY in the world is asked to do.

Why does the right want the PO dead when the founders were willing to pay for it right in the constitution?

 

[theHawk]

Because the Hussein tripled the deficit?

 

[Trajan]

2. Obama is fixing the economy.

do you think that 8 years is an acceptable "fix" time-line for the economy?

 

[Trajan]

1. Obama has cut my taxes.

POLITIFACT: Barack Obama says taxes are lower for middle class today than when he took office

Second-lowest 20 percent

2008 tax burden: $1,715
2011 tax burden: $1,396
Decline of $319

2008 tax rate: 6.7 percent
2011 tax rate: 5.7 percent
Decline of 1 percentage point

Middle 20 percent

2008 tax burden: $6,290
2011 tax burden: $5,535
Decline of $775

2008 tax rate: 13.6 percent
2011 tax rate: 12.4 percent
Decline of 1.2 percentage points

Second-highest 20 percent

2008 tax burden: $13,749
2011 tax burden: $13,078
Decline of $671

2008 tax rate: 17.4 percent
2011 tax rate: 16.5 percent
Decline of 0.9 percentage points

So for each of the three middle quintiles, both the amount of tax paid and the effective tax rate paid declined.

Our ruling

Every taxpayer is different, and some "middle-class" Americans may have seen their tax rate or their tax burden go up for one reason or another. But Obama was talking about "the average middle-class family." The changes to the tax code made under Obama and the analyses by the Tax Policy Center show that for the middle 60 percent of the income distribution, both the average tax paid and the average tax rate fell between 2008 and 2011. We rate Obama’s statement True.

and this translates to what, exactly?

 

[Lakhota]

The New York Times: How the Deficit Got This Big

 

[Truthmatters]

They dont care.

they have no convictions.

they are like a cult and will believe and think whatever they are told to believe and think

 

[Avorysuds]

You and TM will both vote Obama for the same reason, you both chose to not know any better.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Bush grew the debt by 5T in 8 years which is absolutely horrid. O has grown the debt by 5T in 3 years. Can we afford 5 more years of exponential debts? Do we really want four more years of this? Of course we don't.

 

[chikenwing]

The New York Times: How the Deficit Got This Big

Yep all Bushes fault every bit of it

Funny they left out the other super sized elephant in the room entitlements,but then that would be next to imposable for a paper like the Times to even mention them.

 

[Avorysuds]

Bush grew the debt by 5T in 8 years which is absolutely horrid. O has grown the debt by 5T in 3 years. Can we afford 5 more years of exponential debts? Do we really want four more years of this? Of course we don't.

Give me a few Trillion and I'll "create" some jobs and give the markets a boost... Of course it will make everyone more poor in the long run but I can post cool charts showing spikes from unloading printed money into the markets...

 

[Rozman]

POLITIFACT: Barack Obama says taxes are lower for middle class today than when he took office

This guy says a lot of stuff....

yap
yap
yap

He has been in campaign mode non stop since he has been in office.
I have never seen a President spend so little time in his office working
at his job...This guy is on the road all the friggin time.

 

[laughinReaper]

Sundial I would like to take this time to thank you for the best comic relief of the day. Really dude, my sides hurt, stop it already!

 

[Lakhota]

What is Obama spending BIG bucks on that wasn't a result of George W. Bush?

 

[LordBrownTrout]

What is Obama spending BIG bucks on that wasn't a result of George W. Bush?

Who knows but nobody is benefiting from it. We're just spiraling into the abyss.

 

[Listening]

what is obama spending big bucks on that wasn't a result of george w. Bush?

gm......