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So How Long Has Obama Been Using That ‘Fairness’ Rhetoric? We Explored and Here’s What We Found

Nov. 3, 2012 1:19pm Charles C. Johnson

When it comes to taxes, Barack Obama has long championed “fairness,” but his “fairness” isn’t justice, it’s more demagoguery.

Indeed, according to press clippings from his time as a state senator, Barack Obama’s coalition building for the “working poor” extended beyond welfare policy to taxes. In February 1998, the then-state senator unveiled a “fair tax” which sought to increase personal exemptions for 10 million Illinoisans and make the tax code more “progressive.” Unfortunately, this loss in revenue had to be made up elsewhere and Obama targeted the so-called rich. This didn’t work in Illinois when the rich moved to other states.

Obama trumpeting his “fair” tax in 1998. (Photo: Chicago Defender)

In language eerily similar to some of his arguments today, notably at the Democratic national convention in Charlotte, Obama complained about “tax cut fever” gripping Illinois. Voters, he said, haven’t heard much about “tax fairness.” He also seemed to have an argument similar to the “Buffett Rule,” in which Warren Buffett’s secretary allegedly paid a higher percentage in tax than Buffett. Of course, the truth of the Buffett Rule is much more complicated: Buffett’s lower tax rate was from capital gains, which is already after-tax income.

“We’ve got a system where a millionaire pays the same tax rate as a single parent who’s making a minimum wage,” Obama said. “It’s working families that are bearing the brunt of our tax code.”

The move to increase the exemption, which was an end run around Illinois’s constitutional prohibition on a progressive income tax, was designed to restore “fairness and common sense to the tax system,” Obama told reporters, according to the urban newspaper The Chicago Defender. He added that we need to end “one of the most regressive” tax systems in the nation. But by ending what he deemed a regressive tax, Obama was really ending Illinois’s flat tax and making the state more reliant on the paychecks of the wealthy, who, in turn, fled the state, leaving the middle class paying the bill. By some measures, Illinois today has the nation’s largest budget deficit, at some $58 billion, according to the New York Times.

Illinois Republicans had hoped to tie overall tax reductions to reductions in the property tax, then among the nation’s highest, but Obama disliked this plan because, while it provided a modest property tax decrease for the middle class, it provided a “whopping tax break for wealthy home owners” who, in Obama’s eyes, “already bear less of a burden when it comes to state taxes.” In fact, according to the Chicago Tribune at the time (which I reviewed), of the $6 billion taken in from income taxes, only $200 million came from low-income citizens.

But Obama did not seem troubled by those figures. “If you own a $1 million home and pay $20,000 in property taxes, you’ll get a $1,000 a year tax break for the next five years. The more your home is worth, the bigger your tax break. Since the Republican plan leaves out renters and seniors [those not owning a home], it benefits only four out of 10 Illinoisans.

“Illinois and Indiana are the two worst states in the nation when it comes to making the working poor pay state income tax,” Obama noted.

Obama even couched some of his arguments in the politics of the day, throwing in welfare reform. “We impose state income taxes on people once they’ve received $4,000 in income,” Obama said, which “doesn’t make sense at a time when we’re trying to encourage people to move from welfare to work.”

This was an interesting observation for Obama to make. He strenuously opposed the 1996 welfare reform law, which he did everything to water down by proposing a commission to oversee all state changes. “(Welfare recipients) generally are not represented down here in Springfield. They don’t have powerful lobbies. They do not contribute to our political candidates,” Obama said in June 1997. He complained that “it’s hard to mobilize support for programs that cost money but benefit low-income folks,” Obama told the Chicago Tribune in April 1999, and became the sponsor of a $250 million earned income-tax credit law.

He even called the new welfare law “punitive,” according to the Chicago Maroon, the student newspaper of the University of Chicago. And he continued to focus on the “working poor” during his 2004 campaign.

“Obama’s campaign for the U.S. Senate demonstrates his firm commitment to progressivism. His website, Obamaforillinois.com, showcased his dedication to providing social services to working class and lower income families,” wrote the Chicago Maroon. His “liberal program also includes a living wage for all workers…and improving welfare programs such as Medicare and Head Start, which he says the Bush Administration has recently targeted to support funding cuts.”

It seems some things never change.

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ProgressivePete
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:01pm
Romney is loosing support due to his stance on FEMA. Read this article

http://news.yahoo.com/undecided-voters-choice-romney-lost-vote-fema-163300942.html;_ylt=A2KJh9LMaZVQJgUABADNt.d_;_ylu=X3oDMTVya2F1M2F1BGNjb2RlA2dtcHRvcDEwMDBwb29sd2lraXVwcmVzdARtaXQDQXJ0aWNsZSBNaXhlZCBMaXN0IE5ld3MgZm9yIFlvdSB3aXRoIE1vcmUgTGluawRwa2cDNTgzYjA4MGYtNjJkMi0zMjFmLWFlNmYtOTBiNWYwZWQwNzcyBHBvcwMxMgRzZWMDbmV3c19mb3JfeW91BHZlcgNmZTYwMmQwMC0yNTBiLTExZTItYWZmZC1jMmE3MjIxOTMxNjY-;_ylv=3

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- TxSon
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:43pm
  I seriously doubt Romney is losing votes over FEMA. The voters of which you speak are already democrats.
  
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- GETLIFE
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:52pm
  Rather obvious….
  
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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 4:52pm
  NO ONE I know would ever believe anything from a Yahoo news source. They’re drinking kool-aid mixed with lies.
  
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- kenster56
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 5:31pm
  You mean the FEMA that ran out of water for the Sandy storm victims.
  
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- Clive
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:32pm
  romney is losing, because he’s a poor candidate, because of his rino tendencies and flip flopping.
  
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- endthemindlessspending
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 8:58pm
  How about you and your neighbors prepare yourselves for when storms come and FEMA wouldn’t have such of a burden to bare or needed hardly at all. What do you think people did before FEMA was around? Did they throw their hands up and say were screwed? No, they were prepared and got off their AZZ and rebuilt things and help neighbors. I wouldn’t want to be in a situation waiting for someone to save that why I take time to be ready for the unknown to come. By the way, I am a paralyzed person so if I can prepare for the unknown and not wait for FEMA. Whats your lame SORRY AZZED EXCUSE.
  
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- Hiswill
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:30pm
  Clive, why is it when your candidate flip flops he is only evolving? Obama said marriage was between a man and a woman, now he is pro-gay marriage. Obama said he wanted a one payer system for health care and then he said he never said that. He blamed Bush (called him un-American for grabbing the China credit card) for 4 trillion worth of debt in 8 years, but it’s OK for him to have 6 Trillion in 3 years. He said Jerusalem was the capital of Israel and then he said it wasn’t. Try Googling Obama’s facts that he has evolved on and maybe you’ll vote for the Right guy, Romney. Obama wants you to vote for him so you can,” get revenge”, Romney wants you to vote for him for, “Love of country”.
  
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- myway2112
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:34pm
  Gee, kind of makes me wonder what we did before FEMA. How on earth did we survive without another bloated B.S. federal government agency> How did we take care of all emergencies back in the day? Of course this is sarcastic.
  
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- desertspeaks
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 10:29pm
  obama is a divisive panderer, he’ll tell constituents what they want to hear. Whether it works or not is irrelevant and meaningless in his skewed sense of reality. Just as he was then, he is now, a divisive *****, race, money, power!
  He is the worst president to ever hold office, he is the most ill equipped person in the history of the world to hold office. Even after the fop gwb held office I never once thought there could possibly be a worse president. Wow, was I in for a rude surprised!
  
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- random26
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 1:20am
  I can name multiple times yahoo has misreported things in Obama’s favor. Why should i believe this?
  
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- Thatsitivehadenough
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 6:44am
  Romney’s not losing. You’re drinking too much Kool Aid.
  
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- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 7:26am
  @PROGRESSIVEPETE
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:01pm
  Romney is loosing support due to his stance on FEMA.
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  You’re losing your mind from years of sniffing model glue
- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 7:26am
  @PROGRESSIVEPETE
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:01pm
  Romney is loosing support due to his stance on FEMA.
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  You’re losing your mind from years of sniffing model glue
- NO_MORE_OBAMA
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 8:42am
  I never did listen to or even like a progressive. You stand for nothing and stick your wet finger in the wind to see where it blows
  
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- Jim
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 10:25am
  Hi Progressive…. Of course you would think this… Go Romney!
  
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- liberum1776
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 11:54am
  I see two issues: 1) Yahoo has made it clear they support Obama. 2) This is an article by a person who may or may not have the intelligence to make an educated argument (My experience is most media people are incapable of understanding past the first level of their actions and mostly I see it happening in people who tend to vote liberal). Generally, it can be said a person who supports the existence of an agency which is incapable of responding in a manner which common sense dictates is, most likely: 1) A Liberal 2) A person who thinks BIG Government is the end-all, be-all of the world 3) Has done little to resolve the issue they are claiming FEMA can solve. An idiot watching the situation in NYC would realize just how INCOMPETENT the City/State/Federal levels of government are. Not only that, but the FACT that Obama AND Christie both said they were clearing out the Red Tape (Read this to mean they are getting the idiots in the government out of the way) is a good condemnation of FEMA itself (as it is all red tape). I would wager that if a person, such as yourself and the author of the article you reference, believe FEMA will fix everything then you are definitively a person who has never needed FEMA. I would ask the people of NYC, esp Staten Island, how they feel about FEMA when they are shelterless, cold, have no food (cold or hot), and no fuel to get out all things FEMA Promises. BUT, Romney shells out his own cash to get things to these same people. BO Hasn’t
  
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- liberum1776
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 12:09pm
  Oh, one more thing for the liberal “genius”: FEMA doesn’t even have a supply of WATER! Yup, this is what you get when you become a slave to the government. Guess it is OK for the government to be caught with thier pants down when the president is a liberal jerk who didn’t move FEMA into position before the storm. Unlike the situation with GW when FEMA was moved in but, as is the rule of law, the governor and mayor were supposed to take over and direct it to where it was needed and FAILED!. Guess that was GW’s faults just like everything else over the past four years (can’t wait to hear how GW is the cause of the supposed Arab Spring when the current idiot figures out it is a serious threat to us…though he never will since he is a complete idiot). Here is FEMA without water: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/11/02/FEMA-Still-Doesn-t-Have-Bottled-Water-to-Distribute-Finally-Places-Large-Order-Today-for-Delivery-Monday
  
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- Constantine Ivanov
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 1:10pm
  It’s not Romney who loses, it;s the obama who wins.
  Why?
  Because the (even slight) majority of Americans and all minorities are “hooked up” on freebies, like on narcotics.
  Politicians intentionally deprave the people with and by promises of freebies of any kind (housing projects, Section 8, Affirmative Act, prolonged unemployment benefits, etc., etc., etc.) with only one goal.
  Don’t even think that the goal is taking care of us the people.
  No. That goal is to get more votes, to weld tightly and forever high-paid-huge-power office chairs to their asses.
  But who is strong and self-respecting enough to reject freebies? Definitely not those who like that woman who screeched that the obama gives phones and everything for free.
  
  It’s not coincidence that even commercials squeal: Buy one, get the second free.”
  The entire American culture is built on injecting a “wish for freebie” into American brains.
  
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- liberty49
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 1:27pm
  Obama is and always has been a communist. I agree with Romney that states do a better job of handling emergencies and people helping each other through their churches, etc. is the way to go. Anything the Federal Government does is always a day late and a dollar short! You can’t help a man to be better by taking away from those who have been successful. Liberals will NEVER understand that.
  
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- RightStuff44
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 4:18pm
  Clive, you are a poor deluded person! Obama is measuring you and others for chains, and you don’t have the slightest clue it is going on. Very sad.
  
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- stopspending
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 6:32pm
  You are so right. My family lived along a river that flooded every year. They knew to prepare and move furniture upstairs. One flood also flooded the upstairs so they had to deal with that. Neighbors pulled together to help with clean up. Neighbors not affected gave furniture and goods to those in need. Funny, they did not have to shop things across the country to help. Help was right next door or down the street. Much more effective than waiting for big gov to decide who to help and how to help.
  
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- USA5
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 12:25am
  You bring in yahoonews into The Blaze…yahoonews reporters with twisted facts, made up facts,
  overload of obam supportive stories…..yahoonews doesn’t even come close to the quality reporting of The Blaze.
  
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- Mulder1
  Posted on November 5, 2012 at 9:57am
  How is it fair for some workers to actually get money from the government (Earned Income Tax Credit) while others pay almost a 40% tax rate? Also, raising the capital gains tax too high will stifle investment, and it is just unfair to tax people twice on the same income. People have already paid taxes on the money they earned, and then they have to pay another tax on the income that this money generated. That’s double taxation.
  
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AxelPhantom
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:44pm
My husband and I were both born and raised in Illinois, now we live in Texas. And yes if we had stayed, we would have been paying big taxes to Illinois. My retiered parents-in-law own a home in Illinois and in Texas. They officially reside in Texas, guess why Illinois?

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- loriann12
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 5:58pm
  Wow your story is similar to mine. I was born in Missouri, husband in Illinois, so when he retired, we moved to Illinois (thinking better job opportunities than my small town in Missouri that only had a factory basically). We moved to Texas 7 years ago. We were a bit dismayed when we found out the wages were lower, until we realized the cost of living was a lot lower, too.
  
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- AxelPhantom
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 10:44pm
  Loriann,
  
  We moved from Illinois and lived in Florida for 5ys and then moved to the Texas Hill Country10 years ago. Since then my brother, my sister-in-law and my in-laws have joined us, though not in the hills (too “rural” for them). The first and third from Illinois and the second one from Michigan. She’s a big progressive though, :(
  
  I kind of miss snow for Christmas, and the ease of growing things, but I don’t miss the -20 windchills!
  
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Jenasus
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:35pm
Obama and the Demoncrats have turned into communists and call themselves progressive.
There is no progress in a communist society.
In a communist society you are either turned into a slave or murdered on a massive scale like when Hitler killed the Jews.

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- 4xeverything
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:39pm
  So, he’s only consistant on one topic.
  
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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:14pm
  The “Social Fairness” doctrine began in the Wilson Administration in the 1912, the income tax was originally only a “TAX the RICH” policy, now it affects the Middle Class taxpayer.
  
  “Social Security” in 1935 was a SAVINGS plan backed by the Gov’t and it was voluntary, since very few people signed up an FDR staffer pushed for changes in 1939 which turned it into a “Government Ponzi Scheme” and since it was a Government program it was not considered illegal. They also forced taxpayers to pay into it and payed few benefits out of it. So it ended up being a slush fund for a while but now it is going bankrupt because politicians used it as a bank account, they even started taxing recipients on their benefit checks to keep it semi-solvent. It needs to be replaced with a new system that younger taxpayers can have something when they get into retirement.
  
  And now we have Healthcare, with mandates not even related to health. Its about destroying the Constitution as we’ve lived under it.
  
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- endthemindlessspending
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 9:27pm
  @1TRUEONE55
  
  The only way Bill Clinton ran anywhere near a surplus he claimed he ran was a sleight of hand accounting trick with Social Security funds. They took the surplus that Social Security was running and More that into accounts that were in the red to make it look better. They have been using that Trick for years. This is why Social Security is now more than an account full of IOU’s. Now that the baby boomers are retiring to say it is anywhere near soluble is an outright blatant lie.They only way Americans can expect a retirement is to start saving on their own again. Sad thing is most people have no clue what that means.
  
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whiterightwingchristianmale
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:34pm
There is NOTHING “fair” about liberalism, socialism, communism, or what ever you want to call it. It is theft. Obama is toast. Liberalism is being rejected thanks to him, and his cronies showing people who democrats really are. The only good thing Obama did. Carter gave us Reagan (thank God) and Obama has given us Romney and the Tea Party. Both good things!

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- Mike Benton
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:56pm
  A wise woman once said: “Socialism is great until you run out of other people’s money” .
  
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- Pantloadian
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 9:23am
  Mr. Benont . . .A wise man once said, “The government is the enemy, until you meed a friend.”
  
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TH777
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:29pm
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2SENSEWORTH
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:21pm
Obama – like the Pied Piper of Hamelin who wore a coat of many colors and was hired by a a town to lure away rats with his magic pipe – who, when the citizens of the town refused to pay for his service, retaliated by turning his magic on the uniformed children and led them away as he had the rats.

Wake up youthful generation – he is playing you like game pieces with his luring tune.

In the story that generation lost its children. Wake up young people – the story is about you.

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Mike Benton
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:19pm
You can’t have a fee enterprise system with out enterprising people; and if one person’s enterprise nets him a greater outcome, so be it. The commies need to keep their greedy hands off of it and go out and earn their own!!!!!

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BODYBAG
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:07pm
This is a HUGE LIE that no one ever really addressed adequately.
When Romney states he paid 14% tax on income —- thats capital gains tax.
He ALREADY PAID the regular rate when he made the money initially.
The 14% is taxing the SECOND TIME.

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- 1TrueOne55
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:45pm
  And I believe our founding as a New Nation State was built on the same argument today that the King was taxing the Colonies to much to fund his wars in Europe and elsewhere. And the original T.E.A. party showed its displeasure by dressing as Native Indians of the area and raiding shipping of the day and dumping cases of tea into the harbor at Boston, MA.
  
  And the Original Constitution removed double taxation as an economic tool. but it was not until recently that it has returned with the Progressive agenda of Social Justice with Social Security, Income tax, Medicare and Medicaid. And now Obama Healthcare Act. They will now need to “TAX” the very benefits that they said would not be reduced, well if you “tax” something you reduce my use of it and it makes you a liar.
  
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- Elaine P
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 7:49pm
  He also gave 33 percent of his income to charity. The moron liberal media never talks about that. Romney is a good man, who loves America. America needs him.
  
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- Pantloadian
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 9:22am
  Mr Bag . . . I’ve head this fact before. But help me understand, how did Mitt Romney make his money the first time? And how do we know he paid the “regular” rate?
  
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zoro51
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:03pm
I do NOT buy into this DAMN SOCIALIST ******** america has has a ear full of LIES n deciet by this WANNA BEA DICTATOR..IMPEACH N THROW OUT NOW SAVE AMERICA

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rbanner
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:03pm
I have a friend who didn’t finish college but worked like a slave, saving every penny he could and worked his way up in the company he worked for until, one day, he had enough money to buy a partnership in the company. Another decade of 18 hour days and sacrifice and he was able to buy out his partner. He invested back into his company, providing his employees with excellent health care. He works right along side them as he did for thirty years, even though he is now the boss.

What, tell me, is “fair” about anybody on this entire planet thinking that he owes them ANYTHING?
He has given “his fair share” his entire life. I cringe when I hear this “fair share” thing slung around as if it’s a foregone conclusion that just because someone has more than someone else, they OWE.

I’m not one of the so-called one per-centers–just an average, not-as-well-off-as-I-was-four-years-ago, middle class-ers. But I am sick and tired of this entitlement mentality that says that people who have done well in life somehow owe me because they have more than I do.

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- BODYBAG
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:13pm
  You’re dead-on correct Sir. Its called Communism. Reject it on Tuesday.
  If voting doesnt defeat it, then draw your hammers and shoot to kill.
  
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- TH777
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:24pm
  My thoughts exactly! Great post!
  
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- Dde13
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:11pm
  Your friend lived the American dream. He used our FREEDOMS and LIBERTIES to succeed or fail by his own hand. Is the American dream fading away? Are stories like your friend going to be the thing of the past? He made it happened and was allowed to use it as he see fit. The GOVERNMENT HAS NO RIGHT TO TAKE ANY PART OF IT AWAY!!!!!
  America was built on MAKERS we have a president that is a TAKER, tax the successfull and reward the LAZY….If you make the rich poor you make the poor poorer…
  Psalms 109:8
  
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- Mustanger
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 5:06pm
  “I’m not one of the 1%” neither am I, I will not stand by and let anyone take away my dreams of being one of the 1% myself. Your boss is my new hero.
  Who is John Gault?
  
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Hope_and_Restore
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:02pm
This article state, “Barack Obama has long championed “fairness,” but his “fairness” isn’t justice, it’s more demagoguery.”

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines demagoguery as “a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power.”

That about sums it up.

I’ve noticed a pattern: what the liberals call “fairness” simply means they think there should not be any natural consequences from a person’s action or inaction. They think government should take away the impact of the consequences.

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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:54pm
BO or BS or whatever name this communist bastard has used over the years to game the system is anti American and anyone who pays attention to whats going on around them knows it. He was raised outside this country by a communist mother and a communist father and his ideology is foreign to America and he will be rejected by the American people on the 6th of November. Barrys god is Carl Marx and that’s obvious to even the casual observer.

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- oldeagle101
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:59pm
  Agreed!!
  
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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:54pm
Interestingly enough when truth is spoken the left, and the right, and many in the center all agree on one thing – gang up against the truth. It’s because you’re brethren, but with different DNA, and different environmental factors influencing your beliefs, and thought process, but the same distaste in your gut is the same.

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 2:03pm
  You’re the same clone network, but different clone branches.
  
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Rock_Moninoff
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:51pm
Obama – a walking cliché looking for a cogent thought.

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- mamatango
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:30pm
  Obamacare summed up in one sentence…
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdnY8r7_fLw&feature=fvwrel
  
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barber2
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:48pm
Isn’t it interesting all of the old definitions that now have new meanings with our Far Left Democrats ‘ dictionary : stealing = redistribution; fairness = unfairness ; marriage = a union of whatever; revenge = social justice ; Columbus= white exploiter ; freedom of the press = leaks and cover-ups allowed; treason = unknown word . Am sure there are other examples I am over-looking.

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StarkeRaving
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:45pm
Just goes to show Obama’s ideas didn’t work then and won’t work now. Yes we need to move forward–forward to voting Obama and his cronies out of office.It’s time as Ann says to put a MAN in the White House. Vote the CHILD out.

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- barber2
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:53pm
  Stark: agree. We need to get the responsible adults back into the room. Send the angry, temper-tantrum- throwing juveniles to a time out or to anger management class . ( I would strongly advise monitoring the Time Out Room as these guys have poor self-control and hang with a bad crowd ) NOBAMA 2012
  
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rsanchez1
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:45pm
Stupid liberals, they would run up state deficits of billions of dollars and national deficits of trillions of dollars just to make things “fair”.

We’ll all be equal when the economy crashes because of their recklessness. That would be “fair”.

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:48pm
  Yes, yes, keep saying they are stupid. Yet somehow they are the ones sitting in State and Federal Legislatures making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year – “Stupid liberals.”
  
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Puddle Duck
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:41pm
The commie POS is a one note tune through and through. This man is an utterly clueless ideologue that is incapable of learning on the job. He’s been banging this Marxist claptrap drum since he was 2 years old…..the red diaper has never been removed.

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Ilikepeople
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:39pm
Yes, he likes this word “Fairness” or at least he likes you to hear it. Is it fair the government is doing a bad job taking care of people in NY? Sometimes I think the government does a bad job on purpose to get people to complain about it, think about it, miss it. Then you say: the government isn’t doing this thing or that thing; but you are acknowledging the government [can do], it can “Cut through the bureaucratic red tape.” Then you eat those words you have said making your love for government stronger. Watch out for the words you say, for it is the path to the darkside. Don’t speak in anger, but out of thoughtfulness.

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- Puddle Duck
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:43pm
  Vodka and Ambien are a bad combo Tim….
  
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1947
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:38pm
Doesn’t this mean Obama screwed the Illinoisans…..?

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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 5:09pm
  @1947 – He’s screwed all American’s he’s one of the promoters of the ACORN causing HOUSING BUBBLE AND CRASH while he was in Chicago. His evil, dark deed are deep and large. If people would have been told back in 2007/2008 to just this one evil deed alone…he would never have been elected.
  http://www.illinoispaytoplay.com/2012/10/26/rezko-obama-and-the-nadhmi-auchi-railroad-linking-chicago-washington-baghdad-part-3-of-3/ all three parts are revealing!
  
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An_American_Thinker
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:37pm
Obama’s “fairness” rhetoric is nothing but that, rhetoric. It has no basis in fact whatsoever. We have heard ad nauseum about fair “tax rates.” Let me show you fair tax rates:
Using the calculator for taxes due in 2012: (moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm)
$50,000 Single Payer = 17.06% tax = $8,530 tax due
$1,000,000 Single Payer = 32.68% tax = $326,761 tax due
While the tax rate paid by the “millionaire” in this case is a little less than twice the tax rate of the person making $50,000, the amount payable is more than 38 times what he/she pays. A recent report said that it costs $60,000 for each person on welfare. That means the person making $1,000,000 supports his/her own family + 5 people on welfare. What’s not fair?

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Marci
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:36pm
This is no shocker. But those who know no different, and those who choose to not know, and those who simply do not care and agree, this makes no difference. And I beg of you “undecideds”, can you please take the next year and inform yourself of what goes on in the world? At least in this nation?

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barber2
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:34pm
Obama is nothing more than an international Lefty. Look at Europe which is his role model. All based on that old , tired anti rich / Bolshevik / proletariat / revolutionary rhetoric. Didn’t work in the USSR, and now Europe is going down the economic toilet ! WAKE UP . This Marxist economic stuff is dysfunctional . NOBAMA 2012

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- Pantloadian
  Posted on November 4, 2012 at 9:29am
  You remind me of Tom Tuttle from Tacoma.
  
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EdgeOfSanity
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:26pm
His Buffett routine shows how lacking he is in economics and tax policies. He also is paying Warren for his support by his veto of the Pipeline . . . that way Buffett’s trains can continue to haul the oil. What a piece of work. Would love to see how he is remembered by the history books.

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HKS
Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:26pm
Anything that “gets whitey” is fair. Got him a few in Benghazi.

“Remember Ebenghazi”

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- StarkeRaving
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:48pm
  lets send Obama,Reid and Polosi to Libya.
  
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- barber2
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 1:56pm
  STARK: These wealthy Democrats could re-build the Benghazi embassy with their own funds. ( can I get an ” oh, yes, we can ” shout- out ?!
  
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- thegreatcarnac
  Posted on November 3, 2012 at 3:44pm
  HKS….I think you are right. I think if these SEALS would have been black….he would have sent the whole Marine corps (I mean–corpse..as he says it) to Benghazi to save them. He is a racist.
  
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