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Obama Mocks Tax Cuts

DevilDog0311 Wrote: Sep 17, 2012 4:18 PM

Fact: If the CBO doesn’t do it for you, then try the IMF, which has said that the US has a “critical” fiscal problem and is “not serious” about addressing it. According to the IMF, were the US government to repeal the tax cuts enacted in the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA), the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003 (JGTRRA), and were the IPAB to succeed in curbing healthcare spending growth as provided in the IPAB mandate, reining in the fiscal gap would still require an immediate and permanent increase in all taxes and cut in all transfers of 26%.

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Obama Mocks Tax Cuts

Do you feel like you're taxed enough already? Do you feel like you work for the government more and more each year, rather than yourself? Do you feel like you should be able to keep more of your own money while the government takes less? If so, President Obama mocked you today at a campaign event in Ohio.

In his Eden Park speech, Obama mocked the Republicans for having only one answer for everything.

“Tax cuts in good times, tax cuts in bad times. Tax cuts in peace, tax cuts in war. Want to...

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