[antimedia] antimedia: Just as I thought....

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Now that's really interesting.  Zilch.



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Posted by antimedia:
Just as I thought....
http://www.antimedia.us/posts/1204089942.shtml


   ....We're being bombarded with campaign ads right now, because our
   primary is March 4. One of Barack Obama's ads lists some of his
   economic plan. One item of that plan is "no taxes for seniors who earn
   $50,000.00 or less annually."
   Guess how much people in that category pay in taxes now. I wasn't
   sure, but I had my suspicions. So I went to [1]1040.com, punched in
   married filing jointly, both with $25,000 annually in social security
   income.
   The result? $0.00 in taxes. Zilch. Nada. Zero.
   Bingo. One campaign promise fulfilled, and he hasn't even been elected
   yet. :-)
   In another ad, Obama says something along the lines of, "we're going
   to take the tax breaks that lobbyists gave to corporations and give
   them to the middle class."
   Uh, I know he hasn't been in the Senate long, but surely Obama knows
   that lobbyists don't give tax breaks to corporations -- Senators and
   Congressmen do?
   If Americans paid attention to what politicians say, we'd all be
   better off.
   Tags: [2]Obama [3]promises [4]politician [5]baloney

References

   1. http://www.1040.com/site/
   2. http://technorati.com/tag/Obama
   3. http://technorati.com/tag/promises
   4. http://technorati.com/tag/politician
   5. http://technorati.com/tag/baloney

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