Tax Day (April 18) even worse under McIntyre's Democrat plan for job-destroying taxes!

NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRAT'S NEW TAX HIKE PLAN WOULD BOOST TAXES EVEN HIGHER THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT!

Verne Strickland Blogmaster    042011

Washington — Tax Day (April 18) could get even worse than it already is if Mike McIntyre and his fellow Democrats have their way, since they unveiled new plans to raise job-destroying taxes further last week in a speech made by President Obama. 

To make matters worse, it appears that McIntyre and his Democrat colleagues would actually raise taxes considerably more than President Obama indicated in his speech, which would especially harm small businesses that are the engine of American economic recovery. 

Will Mike McIntyre continue to follow his Democrat leaders down the path of fiscal and economic ruin, or will he change his ways and embrace a pro-growth budget plan that would encourage small business growth for North Carolina families?

“Mike McIntyre and his Democrat colleagues continue to demonstrate that they are completely unwilling to let go of their free-spending policies, even if that means hiking taxes on families and crushing job-creation instead of cutting spending,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay.

“Regrettably, it comes as no surprise this Tax Day that McIntyre and his fellow Democrats appear to be raising taxes even more than they led us to believe, particularly burdening small businesses that families in North Carolina are relying on for jobs. Will McIntyre continue to fuel the Democrat spending spree with $2 trillion in new taxes or will he finally learn his lesson and support a pro-growth budget that forces government to live within its means and encourages private-sector job creation?”

President Obama presented the Democrat plan to raise taxes last Wednesday, but the details have since revealed that he intends to actually raise taxes by $2 trillion instead of simply $1 trillion:

“In the case of the new White House proposal, its baseline starts with the assumption that the Bush-era tax cuts for higher earners are allowed to expire after 2012. That puts about $1 trillion in revenues into the White House estimate of future tax revenues right off the bat, even before the $1 trillion in new tax revenues that the president now is proposing to raise.” (John D. McKinnon, “Battle of the Baselines,” The Wall Street Journal’s Washington Wire Blog, 4/15/11)

This also means that the Democrats’ budget plans rely mostly on job-destroying tax increases rather than spending cuts, in contradiction to their talking points:

“So of the 3.4 percentage points of savings, more than half — 1.9 points — comes from taxes. That’s 56 percent, not the one-third or one-quarter that Obama was talking about. And I am assuming that Goldman is using the White House’s rosier economic forecasts when evaluating Obama’s plan.” (James Pethokoukis, “Obama’s new plan may actually rely 60 percent on tax increases,” Reuters’ James Pethokoukis Blog, 4/15/11)

And these types of tax increases directly harm small businesses, forcing layoffs and hampering economic recovery. (Jonathan Karl, “Fact Checking the Tax-Cut Debate,” ABC News, 9/8/10)

McIntyre and his fellow Democrats’ priorities are clear – they will continue to rely on job-destroying tax hikes to fuel their spending spree rather than live within their means and institute true fiscal reform. If McIntyre gets his way, Tax Day will get much worse for families and small businesses throughout North Carolina.

Tags: Failed Democrat Leadership, Mike McIntyre, Taxes, U.S. Budget

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Palin serves up a winner at embattled Madison, Wisconsin, at Tax Day Tea Party. You go girl!

Verne Strickland Blogmaster
April 17, 2011

CAN SARAH PALIN REALLY SEE RUSSIA FROM HER BACK PORCH? NOT IMPORTANT. SHE CAN SEE WASHINGTON FROM HER FRONT PORCH -- WELL ENOUGH TO KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH IT. THIS IS AN EXCERPT FROM HER SPEECH TODAY AT THE TAX DAY TEA PARTY IN MADISON, WISCONSIN. WORKS FOR ME.

By Sarah Palin on Sunday, April 17, 2011 at 1:45pm

Madison, you held your ground. Your governor did the rght thing. And you won. Your beautiful state won. And you know what – people still have their jobs because of it! That’s courage. And that’s integrity. And that’s something that’s sorely missing in the Beltway today.

Because let me tell you what isn’t courageous: It’s politicians promising the American voters that, as we drown in $14.5 trillion debt, that they’re going to cut $100 billion out of this year’s budget. But then they cave on that and they reduce it down to $61 billion after they get elected.

Then they get in there and they strike a deal and decide, nah, they will reduce that down to $38 billion. And then after some politics-as-usual and accounting gimmicks, we find out it’s not $38 billion in cuts. You know that $38 billion – we don’t have it; we’re borrowing it.

We borrow from foreign countries to give to foreign countries, and that’s insanity. We find out it’s not even $38 billion; it’s less than $1 billion in real cuts. Folks, that $352 million in real cuts – that’s no more than the federal government is going to spend in the time it takes us to hold this rally today! That is not courage; that’s capitulation!

Now, there’s a lesson here for the Beltway politicos, something they need to understand; the lesson comes from here in Madison. So, our lesson is to the GOP establishment first. And yeah, I’ll take on the GOP establishment. What more can they say about us, you know?

So, to the GOP establishment: if you stand on the platform, if you stand by your pledges, we will stand with you. We will fight with you, GOP. We have your back. Together we will win because America will win!

We didn’t elect you just to re-arrange the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic. We didn’t elect you to just stand back and watch Obama re-distribute those deck chairs. What we need is for you to stand up, GOP, and fight. Maybe I should ask some of the Badger women’s hockey team—those champions—maybe I should ask them if we should be suggesting to GOP leaders they need to learn how to fight like a girl!

And speaking of President Obama, I think we ought to pay tribute to him today at this Tax Day Tea Party because really he’s the inspiration for why we’re here today.

That’s right. The Tea Party Movement wouldn’t exist without Barack Obama.

You see, Candidate Obama didn’t have a record while he was in office; but President Obama certainly has a record, and that’s why we’re here. And hey, media, it’s not inciting violence and it’s not hateful rhetoric to call someone out on their record, so that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to do it to be clear. That’s right: we’re here, we’re clear, get used to it!

Candidate Obama promised to be fiscally responsible. He promised to cut the deficit; but President Obama tripled it!

Candidate Obama promised that fiscal responsibility; but President Obama flushed a trillion dollars down the drain on a useless “stimulus” package and then he bragged about the jobs he “created” in congressional districts that don’t even exist! That’s right; on this, White House, you lie. The only thing that trillion-dollar travesty stimulated was a debt-crisis and a Tea Party!

Now, the left’s irresponsible and radical policies awakened a sleeping America so that we understood finally what it was that we were about to lose. We were about to lose the blessings of liberty and prosperity. They caused the working men and women of this country to get up off their sofas, to come down from the deer stand, get out of the duck blind, and hit the streets, come to the town halls, and finally to the ballot box. And Tea Party Americans won an electoral victory of historic proportions last November. We the people, we rose up and we decisively rejected the left’s big government agenda. We don’t want it. We can’t afford it. And we are unwilling to pay for it.

But what was the president’s reaction to this mandate for fiscal sanity?

Less than 90 days after the election, in his State of the Union address, President Obama told us, nah, the era of big government is here to stay, and we’re going to pay for it whether we want to or not. Instead of reducing spending, they’re going to “Win The Future” by “investing” more of your hard-earned money in some cockamamie harebrained ideas like more solar shingles, more really fast trains – some things that venture capitalists will tell you are non-starters.

We’re flat broke, but he thinks these solar shingles and really fast trains will magically save us. So now he’s shouting “all aboard” his bullet train to bankruptcy. "Win The Future"? W.T.F. is about right.

And when Wisconsin’s own Paul Ryan presented a plan for fiscal reform, what was Obama’s response? He demonized the voices of responsibility with class warfare and with fearmongering. And I say personally to our president: Hey, parent to parent, Barack Obama, for shame for you to suggest that the heart of the commonsense conservative movement would do anything to harm our esteemed elders, to harm our children with Down syndrome, to harm those most in need. No, see, in our book, you prioritize appropriately and those who need the help will get the help. The only way we do that is to be wise and prudent and to budget according to the right priorities.

Now, our president isn’t leading, he’s punting on this debt crisis. The only future Barack Obama is trying to win is his own re-election! He’s willing to mortgage your children’s future to ensure his own. And that is not the audacity of hope. That’s cynicism!

Piling more debt onto our children and grandchildren is not courage. No, that’s cowardice!

But did you notice when he gave that polarizing speech last week there was a little gem in the speech. Maybe you missed it. But he spoke about the social contract and the “social compact.” Well, Mr. President, the most basic tenet in that social compact is adhering to the consent of the governed. That would be “We the People.” President Obama, you do not have our consent. You didn’t have it in November. And you certainly don’t have it now. You willfully ignored the will of the American people.

You ignored it when you rammed through Obamacare.

You ignored it when you drove up the debt to $14.5 trillion.

You ignored it when you misrepresented your deficit spending.

You ignored it when you proposed massive tax increases on the middle class and our job creators.

You ignored is when you went to bat for government-funded abortions and yet you threw our brave men and women in uniform under the bus, Mr. Commander in Chief.

You ignored it when you got us into a third war for fuzzy and inconsistent reasons, a third war that we cannot afford.

You ignore it when you apologize for America while you bow and kowtow to our enemies, and you snub our allies like Israel.

And you ignore when you manipulate the U.S. oil supply. You cut off oil development here and then you hypocritically praise foreign countries for their drilling.

And when hardworking families are hit with $4 and $5 a gallon gas and your skyrocketing energy and food prices as you set out to fundamentally transform America, you ignore our concerns and you tell us we just better get used to it.

Well, Mr. President, we’re not going to get used to it. Not now. Not ever. You ignored us in 2010. But you cannot ignore us in 2012.

Mr. President, you and your cohorts threw all the hatred and all the violence you could at these good folks in Madison, Wisconsin. But you lost here.

And Madison, you defended the 2010 electoral mandate. You are heroes, you are patriots, and when the history of this Tea Party Movement is written, what you accomplished here will not be forgotten.

Your historic stand brought down the curtain on the last election. And the 2012 election begins here.

We will take the courage and the integrity that you showed all of America. We will take it and we will win back our country!

God has shed His grace on thee, America. We will not squander what we have.

We will fight for America! And it starts here in Madison, Wisconsin!

It starts here! It starts now! What better place than the state that hosts the Super Bowl champs, to call out the liberal left and let them know: Mr. President, game on!

God bless you, Wisconsin, and God bless America!


VS: And God bless you, Sarah Palin. You go girl!