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Sen. Obama's economics plan centers on his claim that he'll cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers. Left unsaid is that to accomplish this, he'll have to levy a massive tax increase against the other 5 percent who already pay nearly 60 percent of all taxes.
Just as troubling, however, is this little factoid: Even the one-third of all American working families who pay no income taxes now will receive a government check under the Obama plan. And that number could rise to about 44 percent under Obama's proposal.
And for most, these payments would exceed even the amount they pay in payroll taxes.
Obama is not offering a tax cut. He's proposing welfare payments. And it represents an extraordinarily noxious expansion of the welfare state.
- I think Obama is more about closing loopholes in corporate taxes than taxing more the wealthy...TheBlueOne
- ..and my household will see our taxes rise under Obama's plan and me and the wife are cool with it.TheBlueOne
- Even more social welfare? No thanks.********
- We definitely don't agree on what constitutes "social spending"...TheBlueOne
- Increasing what they've classically called "welfare" scares me. Expansion of the welfare state? huh...?********