Here is a SHORT list of them so far, although it goes way beyond this but unfortunately, there are too many to list:
Barack Obama has promised, among many other things, that if America elects him, he will safeguard all nuclear material worldwide within his first term, stop new nuclear weapons development, finish the fight in Afghanistan, crack down on al Qaeda in Pakistan, end the Darfur genocide, and create a Palestinian state that exists with Israel “side by side in peace and security.” He aims to cut the world’s extreme poverty in half and boost international aid. He will help revitalize inner cities, overhaul immigration laws, outlaw discrimination against transsexuals, ban racial profiling, make the criminal justice system into one that will inspire every American’s trust and confidence, and even attract more doctors to rural areas. He will provide free college for those who want to become teachers, supply health care and broadband Internet access for every American, preserve Social Security, rebuild aging infrastructure, and build a 21st-century VA hospital—all while slashing federal waste and cutting taxes for 95 percent of working families. He will “make sure our economy is working for everybody,” and generate “nothing less than a complete transformation of our economy.” He pledges to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050, to reduce electricity demand even as the population increases, to “end the age of oil,” and to “work to solve this energy crisis once and for all.” Again, this is just cherry-picking from a much larger list of his campaign pledges.
Let’s not forget, he also plans on sending out checks to those less fortunate. All of these promises and he’s going to cut taxes for 95% of the people, he says.
Is there anyone who REALLY believes that if they work, they’re not going to be taxed for this, unless they make over 250K?
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
"I don’t think it all adds up," Isabel Sawhill, an official in President Clinton’s Office of Management and Budget, said of Obama’s spending plans.
"There will definitely need to be a recalibration of these proposals once someone is in office," said Sawhill, now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "The fiscal situation just isn’t going to permit doing what Sen. Obama or anyone else would like."
http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/politics/articles/adding_up_the_cost_of_obamas_agenda.html
Obama would end the Bush tax cuts and allow the top two tax rates to return to 36 and 39.6 percent. He also would allow personal exemptions and deductions to be phased out for those with income over $250,000. The real kicker, though, is that Senator Obama would end the Social Security payroll tax cap for those over $250,000 in earnings. (The cap is currently set at $102,000.) These individuals will then face a tax rate of 15.65 percent from payroll taxes and the top income tax rate of 39.6 percent for a combined top rate of over 56 percent on each additional dollar earned.
Senator Obama’s new tax rate would give the United States one of the highest tax rates among developed countries. Currently only six of the top 30 industrial nations have a tax rate for all levels of government combined of over 55 percent. Under Obama’s tax plan, the United States would join this group and have a higher top rate than such high-tax nations as Sweden and Denmark. The top marginal rate would exceed 60 percent with the inclusion of state and local taxes, which means that only Hungary would exceed Senator Obama’s new proposed top tax rate.
Senator Obama’s tax rate would be the highest individual tax rate since the Jimmy Carter days. Tax shelters and tax avoidance strategies were common when the top marginal rate was 70 percent or higher. This new top tax rate will again encourage these gimmicks, reducing investment and economic growth as resources are squandered in an attempt to avoid punitive taxation.
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Taxes/wm1973.cfm
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Under Obama, projected spending is 3.5 trillion. Under McCain, projected spending is 5 trillion. Where do you think McCain is going to get the money?
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Both sides promise things they cannot follow through with! They should never be supported!
Democrats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xV4KfeZabE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5st1WpF5HcM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWG5Dh_ehTU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB97F7fFTL8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LoAMfJOrms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ipO8By5Xk
Republicans:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJYwgC4aRRc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5BY1RgKf64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pgHxHLU-bY
http://www.youtube.com/user/shanklinmike
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
i need to find a wife like you
you are a very smart woman
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Either it will be tax the life out of the entire country, or print and borrow more money making us even more vulnerable to foreign powers than we are now. It’s totally absurb!
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Taxes are the cost of entrance to a civilized society. If anything I’d like to see more of my tax money go to things like education and medicine for those who can’t afford it than bailing out companies that were run into the ground by guys who make $50 mil for being a loser and bitch about how they have to pay taxes.
I pay my taxes, I don’t whine about it. If I can with my average salary, then so can people who make 4, 5, 10, 100 times what I do.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Because when we stop spending $2 billion a month in Iraq we could afford to do that. Easy.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
He’s MAJIK;o)
No, most American’s know it’s impossible.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Well if we can’t afford Obama’s promises we surely can’t afford McCain’s which will add 1.5 trillion more to the national debt than Obama.
Funny how you people don’t trust Obama when Palin distorts the truth far more, McCain flip-flops more, and think we can’t afford Obama, when McCain and Palin will cost us 1.5 trillion more.
Why not go ahead and say it….it is becoming painfuly obvious. You’ll trust a white liar more over an honest black man any day …right?
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Don’t underestimate the wealth of the osbcenely rich. We have epic levels of economic inequality in the US.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
I think you are ignoring the fact that he will end the Iraq war which costs $10 billion a month.
But, just because you don’t believe something to be true is no excuse not to do the research. I think you should spend a little while messing around with this, it comes with actual numbers.
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
after 8 years of Bush, I will take that chance. If this country can survive Bush, it can survive anything thrown at it.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
The tax part of it doesn’t make sense, but the rest of it does–especially the transition to reneweble energy. We need to get off our addiction to oil and not pretend like we have unlimited supply of it. He will invest more in human capital–yes, I believe he will.
The only concern I have is the deficit–you know, the one that has increased three trillion since your man took office in 2001. Sometime down the line, we are going to have to pay down the deficit. Not involving ourselves in stupid wars may be one way to start doing that.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Well, seeing as how the top 2% have more money then the remaining 98% combined, I’d say it’s possible.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
On June 19th Obama promised to heal the Earth. What is the price tag on that.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Is simple they have stole the money from the government and now we are going to get it back. DUH!
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Why wouldnt we help the less fortunate when American taxpyers are on the hook for 900 billion in corporate bailouts in 2008 alone?
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
They can’t. They are just following what they have been told by the biased Media. I think they forgot to think for themselves.
With the Bush tax cuts eliminated, as Obama wants to do, Americans making $38,000 or more will be taxed.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Granted, given the incredible amount of debt that is currently being racked up in the taxpayer’s name, the tax proposals may have to be revamped. Republican flawed economic policies caused the problems and Obama will have to address them.
Obama’s proposals are ambitious but I believe he will actually try to accomplish them. McCain’s tax proposal is ludicrous and his health plan is absurd and unfair. Many of McCain’s other proposals are so vague as to be meaningless.
I’ll go with Obama’s plans, any day, because we have suffered enough with the Republicans running the show.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
He hasn’t put us another 4 TRILLION in Debt, which we have to pay the interest. The reality is that 5% own most of America’s wealth and are getting all the tax cuts, while Bush has decimated the middle class and the poor, stealing from them to give to the rich!
And even if he doesn’t, one thing is for sure, McCain WILL NEVER DO ANYTHING FOR ANYONE BUT THE RICH!
David Stockman’s Voodoo economics was a failure under Reagan. it was a failure under Bush, as you can readily see, and McCain wants to continue giving tax cuts to the rich!
What does Dick Cheney need with a 1.7 MILLION cut while there are people in America choosing between heating and eating!
You are off base. In Fact no Republican has had a balanced budget in the 28 years of the 40 that they have been in power The last to have one is Clinton, who cleaned up Bush1′s mess and left Bush 2 a surplus and 7 combat ready army Divisions. In 2 years Bush 2 squandered the surplus and we do not have ANY Divisions that are combat ready!
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
ok, alot of those things obama didnt actually say, they are just things that republicans say he said, for example, barock obama has never said anything socialist, and he is definately not a liberal, if he were a liberal, he would not have denounced reverand Wright.
Barock will not even a decent president, he will destroy the middle class and crack down on personal choices… sounds offly reagan-esc to me
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
First your [premise that 2% is faulty on it’s face and secondly Tristan disposed of the rest of the ignorant rant quite handily
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Democrats are not one for letting the truth get in the way,
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
imo never believe when anyone says something about aking new programs and tax cuts in the same breath.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
There are dummies out there who think that Obama can tax wealth.
He can’t.
Our system only taxes income.
The wealthy will stop investing in things that produce income.
So capital will dry up.
That’s why the economy will slow down and jobs will disappear.
Since there will be less income from the wealthy to tax, revenue to the federal treasury will go down.
The wealthy can live off their assets or from the proceeds of tax-free investments.
How hard is this to understand?
Obama’s plan does not work.
Anybody who understands basic economics is voting for McCain.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
God, the ignorance on here is frustrating! I do not understand why these people fail to see this. My father has a small business he started in 1991 with $500.00. Today, he employs 31 people, pays their health insurance, profit shares via a 401K, works his ass off, all of his insurances (and there many) are going up 18% this year alone, he is modest, lives in the same home he and my mother bought in 1970 for $20.000, has no off shore accounts, does not defraud the government, has substantial personal risk (outside of what insurance will carry) with his business, was not educated beyond the 12th grade. This year he grossed a bit over a million dollars after expenses. After writing the feds a check for $370,000 without complaint, he took home a bit under $650,000. Nice income….his reward for hard work and the will to succeed.
He gives thousands to charity, helps those in need more than most, is humble and modest, mom still cooks dinner each night and does not sport "bling" or has even had a manicure! They are just hard working people who had a dream and made it happen. My mom drives a modest buick and dad drives a GMC truck.
I honestly believe that most people look at "rich" as snooty, selfish, greedy, money hungry people…..most are not. They are hard working americans who pay their fair share and love this country.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
More to the point. Is there anyone who really believes that we aren’t already stuck in a position that DEMANDS taxes be raised due the the irresponsibility of this Bush, Cheaney, Rove administration.
The "war" they started against a country that didn’t even threaten to attack us is unfunded. To blindly toe the GOP line of not raising taxes and borrow money from China instead President Bush Has already guaranteed the inevitability of higher taxes.
By borrowing this money rather than confessing to the American people that we need to fund this "war" he can say he didn’t raise taxes, and if the Dems. win they go back to the "we don’t raise taxes, they do" line
The big problem is that while we will be forced to raise taxes anyway, now we pay China $20 Billion per year in interest alone. That should be our tax money NOT Chinas. They have betrayed us in the long run all to keep the hollow claim that they wont raise taxes.
So sad, and all too true
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Of course, they can’t. Someone is fibbing to us.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
He can’t get any of this money he’s an idiot and to that guy who says McCain plans tio spend 5 trillion to Obama 3.5 get off you kool aid McCain is going to cut speding to 2 trillion well Obama will raise it past 5 trillion
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
Jealously is a bad mistress. All those who believe in Obama’s tax plan are just so jealous they can’t see beyond the dollar signs. They think Obama is going to let them win the lottery. I would almost say let Obama win just for the pure pleasure of seeing them cry in their beer when they realize his promises are only good in their dreams. I say almost because I’m not willing to stand by and watch Obama destroy America and the freedoms our ancestors have fought so hard for. Only a real idiot will believe the lies told by Obama.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
There aren’t enough people in the USA making over $250K to foot this massive bill. Anyone in the middle class who thinks they’re safe from Obama’s tax-raising plan is fooling themselves.
VOTERS BEWARE.
13. November 2010 at 6:07 am
It’s not possible. Obama didn’t have time for math class while he was studying to be a community organizer.
As for safeguarding all nuclear material in the world, he better ask Russia for permission to tamper with theirs.