Obama: I Will Cut Taxes For 95% Of Working Americans
I had a lot of family over tonight, so I only half listened to Obama’s big speech, but watching the liberal talking heads on television gush about it I did hear one excerpt from Obama’s speech that struck me as odd. Here’s a quote:
“Change means a tax code that doesn’t reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it,” he was to say.
“Unlike John McCain [his Republican opponent], I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship our jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.
“I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.
“I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 per cent of all working families.
Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class.
Forgetting for a moment that Obama has, in the past, called for tax hikes on Americans making as little as $41,500/year and that this new call for middle class tax cuts is either a lie or a massive flip-flop…what exactly does tax cuts for “95% of all working families” mean?
Why just 95% of working families? Why not all working families? Are there some working families that are getter than others? What has this 5% of working families done that Obama doesn’t think they deserve a tax break?
Also, what’s the definition of a working family? Poor and middle class families? Does that mean that rich families haven’t worked for what they have? Or even just upper class families?
How does it feel, you Americans who The One doesn’t plan on giving any tax relief, to know that Obama doesn’t think you work for what you get?
