To hear conservatives and Tea Partiers tell it, President Obama is a serial tax-raiser who has increased taxes on “millions of Americans.” But according to the latest data from the Congressional Budget Office, tax rates under Obama hit a 30-year low in 2009, in part because of the tax cuts he implemented in response to the country’s economic downturn:
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I think he raised the tax on suntanning booths and cigarette-specific tobacco. I don't use the former and I'm rolling my smokes with pipe tobacco rather than pay a $25 per pound tax. :-)
ReplyDeleteThat's why they're whining, because it costs the Orange Boner more to stay orange. ;)
ReplyDeleteExcellent point, although I'm sure his Masters have donated him his own booth.
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