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Obama fails to keep his 2009 pledge to cut deficit in half – Deficit skyrockets instead – Proposes draconian tax hikes – Why? So the debt increases by only $1.3 trillion – More Obama, More Debt

By AWC on February 13, 2012 • ( 0 )

Obama submitted his $3.8T budget to Congress. Inside his proposal were the following economically devastating tax hikes:

Expiration of Bush-era tax cuts for couples earning $250,000 or more a year.
Limiting the value of itemized deductions to 28% for couples earning $250,000 or more a year.
Imposing a minimum tax for individuals with annual incomes of at least $1M.
Raise taxes on dividends received by the wealthy to 39.6% from the current 15%.
$61B “Financial Responsibility Fee” imposed on banks.
Increase in the terrorism-security fee charged to airline passengers.

It will take all of these exceptionally destructive tax hikes just to hold the deficit at $1.3T. Not reduce the deficit. Not reduce the debt. Just add more debt on top of debt…just less debt.

That means, we still add $1.3T in debt on top of our current $15.3T in debt, with no end in site. In 2009, Obama pledged to cut the deficit in half by the end of his term. Instead, he has exceeded a trillion dollars for four straight years. And there are still people walking around that would vote for this idiot again? I’m embarrassed for you.

These taxes will divert more capital out of the United States as the wealthy and those who make more than $250,000 a year (who I do not consider wealthy) move their money, investments, and potentially themselves, to other countries. All Obama is doing is making the United States the most acidic and inhospitable environment for wealth creation, capital investment, expansion and entrepreneurship in the world. He is effectively driving out every business minded and creative visionary in the country.

This is the long slow death of our economy. Obama and the government will continue to raise taxes, which drives more people and their money out of the country and before you know it, there is nobody left to pay all the bills. Nobody left to pay the social security payments, to pay for the military machine, to pay for the bailouts, the government union pension plans, bailing out the post office and Amtrak, paying for medicare and medicaid. Eventually, the Government will run out of someone elses money to spend.

And what does that look like?

We’ve seen it already. As reported by Bloomberg, Rioters Burn Buildings as Greek Parliament Votes on Cuts.

The people burning down buildings and lighting the police on fire are not vigilante criminals. They are not felons. They are middle-class government union workers and Greeks receiving some type of government aid. This is what happens when a government runs out of other people’s money and the parasites in society that have lived and depended on bloated government salaries, healthcare benefits and pensions and leaches living off of government aid and subsidies are told they can no longer do so.

This is how Athens burns. Obama is running out of someone else’s money. So which of our cities will be the first to burn?