FOCUS ON OBAMASPEAK -by Gary Bauer, Contributing Author: Remember good old Joe the Plumber, who bravely confronted candidate Obama in Ohio? Joe had the audacity to ask then-Senator Obama, “Your new tax plan’s going to tax me more, isn’t it?” Obama didn’t hesitate a second. He assured Joe that 95% of Americans would see their taxes go down, and then he told Joe “. . . from 250 [thousand dollars a year] down, your taxes are going to stay the same.”
Joe was skeptical, but millions of voters drank the Kool-Aid and believed Obama. The rest is history. Fast forward to yesterday, when Obama was asked about a new task force he is appointing to come up with deficit solutions. What if it recommends middle-class tax hikes? Would Obama’s promise still hold? No way! He responded, “What I want to do is to be completely agnostic in terms of solutions.” That is Obamaspeak for “you better hold on to your wallet!”
Back in 2009 Joe the Plumber, who didn’t go to Harvard, knew there was no way Obama could pay for all his schemes without raising everyone’s taxes. I am sure Obama knew that too. 2010 is going to be the year of the tax hike.
Gary Bauer is is a conservative family values advocate and serves as president of American Values and chairman of the Campaign for Working Families. He submitted this article in an email to the ARRA News Service Editor. Bauer was a former Republican presidential candidate and served as President Ronald Reagan’s domestic policy adviser.
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