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The D.C. based Tax Foundation, which specializes only in the numbers on taxes, yesterday released findings on the current Dem health care proposals working their way through Congress. What they uncovered was astounding.

If the House version of the Universal Health Care proposal becomes law, embracing the priorities that the President directed it to cover, the top tax rate would jump to 58%.

I've been speaking to Summit crowds this summer explaining what happens when a small business owner (the majority of the people who will be forced to pay this rate) are forced into these absurd, highly discriminatory, prejudiced tax scenarios. They shed work force, they slow their productivity, and a bigger recession than anything we've seen thus far under Obama's thumb... uh administration... WILL be coming about.

And this small note to all those pastors who read this space and are more concerned with the "social justice" issues like feeding the poor, (as opposed to the moral justice issues like allowing unborn children to be snuffed out in the womb or the upside down whacky combination of definitions that make a "family" this week) why won't you be speaking to this issue?

This tax will create worse unemployment in urban and impoverished households, though all will suffer. This tax will have an adverse effect on the quality of life from poor to middle class. America will again begin to see hungry children and suffering families.

And here's why: COMPANIES NEVER PAY TAXES. They never have. Customers to those companies pay the taxes or they go bankrupt.

60% tax also far exceeds Obama's campaign promise to do no worse than return the tax codes to the 1990's.

And the White House response when called on it?

"It's a process and we're watching..."

Hope and Change!

This headline should have a lot of people worried today!

With the downturn in the economy it is now more urgent than ever previously known that the government get a form of genuine tax relief into the pockets of real WORKERS (not slugs who aren't producing.)

In getting taxes lowered REVENUES would go up - as they did under the Kennedy, Reagan, and Bush tax cuts.

But this is not the plan for Obama et al. Nope, he's going to raise taxes, which will further put a choke hold on the slugs and workers alike.

It's basic Economics 101, but as with many of the issues he's facing in the first term, these complexities are turning out to be "above his paygrade."

AND NOW: From that bastion of right-wing extremism... The Washington Post... comes the "National Sales Tax!"

Since President Obama has never run so much as a corner store, it's easy to understand why he might just be so confused about how the real business world works. He's never had to meet a payroll. He's never had to do projections, or cost analysis, and certainly has no idea how to help poor people.

Because he keeps doing things to make it more and more difficult for them.

Today he's announcing that he's going to crack down on business taxes, discounting some of the deductions that they are allowed to take.

He calls it closing loopholes. Economists call it lengthening the chance of economic recovery from his worst in a generation recession that he seems insistent upon making last as long as possible.

He says companies are avoiding paying taxes they should be paying. Yet he's not accusing them of breaking any laws. In other words, in a global economy if they can base portions enough of their operations to be able to establish a more profitable address to operate from he now wishes to take that opportunity away.

Will he do the same to foreign owned businesses?

No.

Why?

Because he wants their trade and operation to take place in the U.S.!

What he is willing to do is make it more expensive for businesses to do business, and ultimately that doesn't hurt anyone more than John Q. Public.

See here's a little concept that Obama does not realize, nor does he understand. Businesses are not the individuals who pay businesses taxes.

Consumers are.

Every time a business is charged a cost to operate from the government (taxed). They line-item that puppy, and fold it into the cost of the product, good, or service.

They do the same thing with their light bill, phone costs, internet support. The customer pays for all of it. THEY HAVE TO. Otherwise the business would not be able to operate.

See President Doesn't-Have-A-Clue is still insisting on raising the income and federal tax rates on the working people. Economically speaking this is going to reduce the amount of capital that can be raised for the federal treasury. To make up for that shortfall he is now being forced to look at "creative measures" to attempt to raise the amount he will need to fund his largest expansion of government in the history of the United States.

He thinks there is some limitless pot of gold for businesses (which he deems evil and greedy to begin with) and that simply barking at them, "pay more," will solve his problem.

He really needs better advisers. Because now in addition to the extra taxes his tax increases will bring about, and in addition to the tax on the little guy that "Cap & Trade" taxes will bring about, NOW President Obama is adding his 3rd layer of taxes onto the consumers, citizens, little people of America by being punitive in operational taxation against businesses.

I'm sure there will be more to come. But just remember this important concept, "Businesses don't pay taxes... people do."

And thank President Present when you get tapped once more to help fund all this "Hope and Change!"

The Wall Street Journal ran this tidbit yesterday:

Last year Congress raised the minimum wage, which is set to rise to $7.25 an hour next year from the current $6.55. But Mr. Obama wants to raise it again, to $9.50 per hour by 2011, and index it for inflation. Mr. Obama says further increases are necessary so that "full-time workers earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs." According to Census data, less than 1% of workers over 25 are earning the minimum. And rather than family heads or full-time workers, they tend to be young single adults, teenagers living at home or spouses providing a second income.

Moments ago Shep Smith was discussing it on FoxNews and admitted that when he runs down to get his Wendy's Value meal in New York - that it turns out to be $11. (For the same meal that would cost $3.50 in Mobile, Alabama.)

Shep points out the obvious truth.

When you force up the minimum wage two interesting things happen.

Products and Services get more expensive - thus TAXING everyone in America, and secondly many companies have to lay people off to get their employment budget in line.

Sure it sounds magnanimous for THE ONE to talk about people getting more pay. But it doesn't happen in a vacuum. And just like his ideas about "taxing business" it will not work.

Businesses - don't "PAY" for anything. People who frequent businesses, customers who order from businesses, and clients who order from businesses PAY FOR EVERYTHING. (Including an increase in wages, or 45% taxation that an Obama administration would likely level against them.)

Truly uneducated poor people, are about to rush into office a man who is about to create the single biggest season of unemployment, high tax, stagnated economic depression-like conditions we've seen in three generations. And while they've been mesmerized by his good looks, fancy words, and slogans of profound depth like "Hope and Change." The truth is he is about to unleash the single biggest assault against the poor of my lifetime...

PEOPLE - there is NOT an endless stream of "money" that Washington can GIVE you. That money comes from those who have earned it.