Obama's in - no more tax breaks for millionaires

[babsbunny]

Thanks in part to the support and encouragement of USAction/TrueMajority members, President Obama is drawing a line in the sand and promising to make millionaires and billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.

http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=226

It's a big step, but if we want to restore fairness to the tax code, we need the President to stay strong. Sign here to thank the President, and ask him to stick to his guns in negotiations with the Republicans.

http://act.truemajorityaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=226

[Cali_Democrat]

1. How can we be sure that Obama will not compromise again on taxes?

[gratuitous]

6. He crossed his heart, hoped to die, promised to eat a muddy pie

So this time, for sure! (Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)

[RegieRocker]

2. Done

[taught_me_patience]

3. Earning 250k does not make you a "millionaire" or "billionaire"

If we want to go back to Clinton rates, shouldn't taxes go up for everybody? Didn't everybody get a tax break under Bush?

[dkf]

4. Yup. This is really his promise to raise taxes on pretty much everyone.

[JuniperLea]

8. No it isn't

He's already said the middle class is carrying too much of the burden.

[dkf]

11. Well I think he is deluded if he thinks he is going to get just taxes on the upper end raised.

It's not happening.

[JuniperLea]

12. I think he has a good chance if he frames it correctly...

2% of the population hold 98% of the wealth and pay 30% of the total tax revenue.

98% of the population are left to fight over 2% of the "wealth" (note the irony quotes) and from that measly amount they must fork over 70% of taxes.

I'm not sure how anyone can push back from that now that it's out there.

[dkf]

14. Not with this House and Senate.

Those guys heads are like bricks.

[CreekDog]

17. you just said he promised to raise taxes on everyone

now you seem to be saying something else.

no credibility whatsoever here.

[CreekDog]

16. that's false, please don't spread falsehoods about Obama

and saying he promised to raise taxes on everyone is false.

[enough]

5. How does he get credit for this a few months after extending the Bush tax cuts? (nt)

[JuniperLea]

9. How soon we (you) forget the circumstances...

And the duration of that choice.

[Ruby the Liberal]

7. I thought we had his back on this in 2008.

[lame54]

10. seems to me there is an election coming up

[Dawgs]

13. Fool me once, shame on you.. Fool me twice, won't get fooled again.

Or something like that.

[GeorgeGist]

15. Wake me when he etches it in granite.

'line in the sand' is weaker than a sternly worded letter.

[Obamanaut]

18. Did he say "And this time I mean it." nt