Stunner. Obama Now Says He's "Agnostic" On Raising Taxes On Those Making Less Than $250,000
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, February 11, 2010, 5:45 AM
Another Broken Promise–
During the 2008 campaign Barack Obama pledged not to raise taxes on families making less than $250,000 a year.
After tripling the national budget deficit his first year in office Barack Obama told reporters yesterday that he’s “agnostic” to raising taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year to bring down the deficit.
Bloomberg reported:
President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.
Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said that a presidential commission on the budget needs to consider all options for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”
Obama repeatedly vowed during the 2008 presidential election campaign that he would not raise taxes on individuals making less than $200,000 and households earning less than $250,000 a year.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 60 Comments
NC Cop commented:
I’m shocked……………….really.
IOpian commented:
He might consult G.H.W. Bush about making ‘read my lips’ type of tax pledges. Not good for re-election hopes. Then again he may have realized he’s not going to have a second term anyway so why not raise taxes.
avery commented:
Medicare alreaoy going broke the baby booner are going on it now they have been force to paid into it all their life and Omaba want to steal 500 billion from it to help paid for his “Omabacare”.
Male Silverback commented:
As if we didn’t see this one coming. Like to see how the media hides/defends/carries this one.
Male Silverback commented:
Agnostic:
2. a person unwilling to commit to an opinion about something
agnostic. (2010). In Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.
Retrieved February 11, 2010, from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agnostic
He voted present again.
olm commented:
Oh well, there are more layofffs every week here. I really wonder who is going to be left that is not on govt assitance.
xiphos commented:
Tax paying Americans paid into Social Security all of their working lives and recieving S.S. payments is “entitlement?
Paying politicians for the mess this country is in, is an entitlement program that needs to be cut.
Militant Conservative commented:
AHHHHHH the Malignant Nacissist strikes again.
Google the term OMG that discribes Barry. LOL
Karen commented:
How are social security and medicare “entitlement” programs if you’ve paid INTO them your entire lives? They’re not. That’s money the government has taken from us from the moment we started working. My husband and I have contributed well over a million dollars into social security during our lifetime and someone else has gotten that money and spent it. It’s only an entitlement if it’s given to people who have NOT paid into it what they’ve gotten out of it.
Food stamps and pell grants etc. are entitlement programs but since politicians are interested in keeping the votes of those people because they’ve got years ahead of them to vote, they’ve decided to sacrifice those who’ve actually WORKED for a living to support everyone else. Obama hates old people and white middle class America.
Patman77 commented:
Agnostic? Rev Wright is gonna be pissed.
Militant Conservative commented:
Karen #9,
Your getting close to the answer. You paid that amount IN, you will not get that amount of benifit out of it. LOL, look at how much you would have had IF you had put the monies in an account with YOUR name on it at a simple 8% interest. The monies have been confiscated to buy votes from groups that do not participate yet. This is a perversion of the original intent of SSN. Supposed to be for Widows and Orphans now it has grown to unsustainable levels. This is what happen in ALL government programs. Progressives are distroyers of the capitolistic system and personnal wealth.
wow commented:
Agnostic? Ah, you mean unwilling to commit to anything, or take a stand on anything… well, so what else is new. It’s par for the course for him. He waffles, votes present and lets others take the rap. He learned well in Chicago.
dave commented:
If you want to reduce the deficit. Cut taxes.
A break on small business capital gains is not a tax break for small business.
A credit for hiring new employees is not a tax break. I’m trying to protect the employees I have.
These do not relieve small business. They are not business creating solutions. We are the engine of the economy. Stop looting and get out of the way.
We don’t need BHO or any of them. They need us.
down with dems commented:
Captain Waffles is an uncommitted agnostic. Who’s surprised?
Robert commented:
And still not a spending cut in sight.
wow commented:
Can we please move November up and vote all these cretins out? The sooner they stop trying to “fix” things the sooner the economy will right itself. Tax breaks cretins and get out of the way!!!
down with dems commented:
Robert
February 11th, 2010 | 9:45 am | #17
And still not a spending cut in sight.
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And if he’s leaving higher taxes for <$250,000 families on the table, that means he's committed to continued spending.
If he is worried about the deficit, he'd cut spending. If he was worried about not getting to continue his orgy of spending, he'd raise taxes because he thinks that will get him more money to spend. If he had a clue (as in ever run ANYTHING in his life) he'd cut spending AND cut taxes.
Neoavatara commented:
I am shocked! Shocked!
Well, no I am not…
aprilnovember811 commented:
He’s banking on the drones not knowing what agnostic means. On the other hand, we knew the guy was a liar before the election, the drones saw the “D” behind the name, and pulled the lever. Dumb.
In plain english, I need to raise taxes on everyone to pay for the fraudulent stimulus bill, that was really to pay off my union supporters, Wall Street supporters, and people we are keeping under the radar. Yes, your taxes will be raised to pay for theft of the United States Treasury by Obama, Paulson, Geitherner, Bernake, Soros, Pelosi, Reid, and all of those that voted for the fraud. We’re coming for all of you in November and after. Hearings for crimes committed after we take over everyone. These people need to be criminally prosecuted. My hope is that some or all of them spend their last days in Federal Prison. We know you robbed us!
Andreas K. commented:
Told you so.
No really, that was so clear.
greenfairie commented:
To those making under $250K who voted for Obama:
SUCKAZZZ!
PackerBronco commented:
Agnostic? Does that mean this is another thing that’s above Obama’s pay grade?
timajin commented:
He. Just. Doesn’t. Care.
O’doofus doesn’t care about us, “we the people”. All he cares about is taxing, spending and gaining greater control (power) over us. Why else would he continue to do things that are proven to not work? Why? He’s pragmatic they once said. I call Bull Sh^t. Never believed it. Everything he’s done and is continuing to do is what I fully expected from him. He told us during the campaign. Certain statements from his mouth, words, are what he’s honoring now. Spread the wealth is good for everybody. ACORN will have a seat at the table. Cap’n Tax will NECESSARILY bankrupt the coal companies.
All the other stuff about cutting taxes for 95% of Americans or not having lobbyists in his cabinet, posting bills for FIVE days before a vote, not approving earmarks, etc. etc. etc. All Bull Sh^t!
Actions speak louder than words, so tell me where have his actions been.
Pat the First commented:
Agnosticism: “the view that the truth value of certain claims—especially claims about the existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims—is unknown or unknowable.”
Joanne commented:
Obama’s lips are moving – he is lying.
Jayne commented:
The brillant one throws out words thinking we are just to dumb to know the meaning. I didn’t graduate from a Ivy league University, just a State College. I sure wuld like to see his transcripts compared to mine. He thinks we are just so beneath him.
avery commented:
Social Security is taken out from the day you start to work,so is Medicare and Medical.Social Security is to go into a lock box for your Retirement and Medicare to help on Dr. and medicine.Medical was set up for Widows and Orpan everyone working are force to pay into them but someone found the Key to the look Box.
eaglewingz08 commented:
To the schmucks and hypenotized masses who voted for Mr. Obama and his demo(n)crap minions, you’ve been PWNED. I wonder if Mr. Brooks and the other oh so pure conservative pundits who voted for and supported Mr. Obama, still are feeling that thrill up their legs? I wonder why someone as supposedly ‘stupid’ as Gov Palin could have predicted everything that has occurred during Obama’s first year in office, while all those bright light elitists failed miserably?
Obama was NEVER an agnostic on taxing everybody, no matter what they earned. He just had to set up the conditions (without taking any personal responsibility) so that he could bankrupt the country and raise taxes ‘reluctantly. (Anyone hear of Cloward Piven leftwing strategy?).
Chris commented:
“So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”
Somebody forgot what “agnostic” actually means. That has to be the most hilarious unintentional revelation of Obama’s capabilities I’ve ever seen.
Agnostic:
1) a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and probably unknowable
2) : a person unwilling to commit to an opinion about something
In other words, Obama is admitting when it comes to his own policy, even he doesn’t know what it is, and is unwilling to commit to one regardless. This is the guy who is supposed to be the leader of our country in general and his own party specifically.
Awesome. Simply awesome.
Sojourner commented:
…hmmm.. Owebama’s agnostic (elitist code for… gonna get some hacks to play the fall guys for me) when it comes down to anything actually having to do his job.. national security, budget, foreign policy.. he’ll make a big media splash out of “putting everything on the table” when he unveils his bipartisan (haaaa) advisory deficit panel .. they’ll break his promise for him.. taxes will rise (unless you’re union.. then, he’ll cut a sweetheart deal a la health reform).. he’ll nevah cut those sacred cow entitlements…he’ll get his deficit panel to redefine who’s wealthy and VIOLA!.. the tab for redistribution agenda’s rolling out… just wait.. November’s gonna be… historic.
Alaskan commented:
I have seen NO ONE discussing Obama’s $3.83 Trillion budget.
……he has the elimination of ‘mortgage interest deduction’ for the top 5% of Americans, but to be widened later.
Michelle commented:
This is not the Barack Obama I thought I knew (wait, yes it is).
mike191 commented:
President 44 using the word, agnostic, to tax people is STUPID.Can the American people see his college course transcripts?The only tranparentness of this administration is the constant deluge of insipient lying.
dallasdan commented:
BO is a lying pos. Anyone who doesn’t know this has been in a coma.
bg commented:
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Obama Now Says He’s “Agnostic” On Raising
Taxes On Those Making Less Than $250,000
President Obama’s Pledge Never to Raise Taxes
on Anyone Making Less Than $250,000 a Year
hah, guess he didn’t make himself very clear on that..
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Herman Husband commented:
Re: The Media…how will the MSM cover this?
Answer: They won’t.
jonyjoe101 commented:
Have everyone in the government (except the military) take a paycut, you don’t work for the government to get rich. Government workers are overpaid and incompetent. That’s the way to reduce the deficit, raising taxes might finally push the economy over the edge.
Spread the wealth around Obama, don’t just give raises to the government workers.
Dutch commented:
Agnostic? I could have told you that if you had asked me – around September-November 2008!. Not Only is he Agnostic, but 100 % Moslem too. What say you? Don’t believe it? Ok wait for it, wait for it, as soon as Iran makes a move on our guys, he will say that Iranian are dysfunctional kids and deserve a second chance, as well as all terrorist at Gitmo…BELIEVE IT Or NOT!!!
bg commented:
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“I am not a Muslim”
~ Mubarack Hussein Obama
[Even the full name of the president-elect, Mubarack Hussein Obama, might be calculated to appeal to Iran’s youth. Hussein was the revered founder of the Shia tradition of Islam, while every Muslim knows that Mubarack is Arabic for "Blessed".
When Tehran’s leaders claim that America is leading a "crusade" to wipe out the Muslim faith, young Iranians will know that Mr Obama’s father was a Muslim and the new president spent some of his childhood in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, where he attended a "Madrassa", or Islamic college. They will also know that Mr Obama opposed the invasion of Iraq.]
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