One of the key tenets of Obama's church, reverend Wright, Saul Alinsky, and most Marxist doctrine -- Why shouldn't he make the promise? You can't expect him to waste all his upbringing and not follow through.

I'm looking forward to Halperin's forthcoming book, "Class Warfare Gibberish from a Media Idiot" with a forward by Paul Krugman.

McNotObama '08

Oh for crying out loud...the question is, what is rich according to liberals? I would guess it is anyone making over $100,000 (even a combined income of that amount). Hang on to your wallets folks.

  I agree with this guy.  Obama should make the case for higher taxes every chance he gets. 

Well John F'n Kerry sure tried. I clearly remember him going on every political show saying "Roll back the Bush tax cuts!" "Roll back the Bush tax cuts!". Of course, he didn't ever go much further because the inconvenient truth for Kerry, Gore and  the DNC, "wealthy" means anyone who made $200,000 and over

We aren't at that stage of the campaign season yet.  The time for "tax the wealth" only comes a few weeks before the election. Right now Obama is raking their big money donations. 

What the Democrats don't realize is that, in the United States, anyone could become "wealthy", or at least wealthy enough to come into the Democrats tax sights.

What the Democrats never mention is how few people, in the lower brackets, actually have to pay taxes.  The taxes the Democrats are complaining about are Social Security taxes which everyone has to pay. 

I'm sure the Democrats would like to rich to pay for everyone's social security, and of course not collect themselves, and pay for everyone's medical care also.  They can propose tax increases all they want and rich folk will figure out how to avoid them, even if it includes moving to Guatamala. 

Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.

Let me pose a simple question. Why would anyone want to vote for a tax increase for themselves?  Those in the liberal media such as Halperin, Stephanopoulos, Couric, Williams, etc. are earning much more than the $200,000 to $250,000 threshold where Barack Obama’s substantial tax increases would supposedly begin. Add to that the capital gains tax that Obama would like to double, and you have Democrats in the media pushing for a candidate that, if elected, will impose hefty tax increases not only on the ‘wealthy’ but on them as well. What am I missing?  http://www.issues200...

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I'm voting for Barack Obama now that an AP poll shows people would rather barbecue burgers with Barack Obama than with John McCain.  http://news.yahoo.co...

One need only look back to what the "soak-the-rich" luxury tax did to the US boat building industry in 1990. The documentary The Rising Tide explains how the blue collar factory workers were the ones that got hurt. The tax paid out 7 dollars in unemployment for every 1 dollar it collected. Let's learn from the past.

Geez, who needs the American dream when Democrats are in control! They'll make sure that we're all poor - except for them of course.

It's sad that most people don't realize that the true face of communism is to take the possibility of individual acheivement and wealth and not really spread it around to everyone but to give all to the politicians, which is why they naturally seem to cling to such ideology.

I wish these liberal idiots would take an Economics course or go back and review our own recent history. When we conservatives talk about tax cuts, the first of those are tax "rate" reductions on income. Then, after that generates a huge cash flow to the treasury because so many people successfully try to increase their income because they get to keep more of it, reduce the tax "rates" on the other types of taxable money, e.g. capital gains, interest, dividends and those areas will increase as behaviors are modified to take advantage of that. However, increasing tax rates defeats its own purpose every time because it changes peoples' behavior to make less money available to tax. 

This week I called the Senate offices of Obama and Biden.  Each time I spoke with a very polite young man. I said, Is it true the Senator's tax plans include increasing income taxes on people earning $250K or over, the upper 5%, is that true? Then I asked each one, "Where are these folks going to get the money to pay the higher taxes?"   The Obama aide said,"Nobody has ever asked us that before." I laughed and said, in real world economics, unless these folks take it out of their own pockets, they are going to raise thr costs of the goods and services they sell to EVERYBODY ELSE. That means  higher taxes, higher inflation and higher cost for capital.  How is that a prescription for economic growth? The aide said he would pass my concerns on.The Biden aide addmitted it would raise prices  but that higher taxes and higher prices are not correllated. Iguess that must be a  coincidence of 100%. He also told me the was no correllation between increased tax revenues to the government and the Bush tax cuts.  I guess just another case of 100% coincidence.