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Another Obama lie alert!



Does anyone remember candidate Obama?  Remember that hope and change guy, with the big smile, that left wing media swooned over in 2008?  Remember when he said, no one with incomes under $250,000 would see a tax increase under his regime.

Obama, you lied!

What Obama really meant was no one whose income was under $250 dollars would see a tax increase.  Being the typical liberal he is, he wants to find even more ways to generate tax dollars so he can have more money to spend. 

Now, Obama wants to tax us per mile we drive. 

Only in Obama land would such a plan be called the “Transportation Opportunities Act.”  In Obama speak, opportunity means the opportunity to take more of our hard earned money and restrict our freedom even more.

In a nutshell, here is how the plan is supposed to work.  Every American car would be fitted with an electronic device so that you would pay your “vehicle mileage tax” or VMT.  The plan says there would be a device at the gas station that would automatically read your mileage and when you are buying your gas, your tax would be included in the purchase price.

Who would pay for this?  The American taxpayer of course.  If this devise were put in a new car, you would pay for that as a part of the cost of a new car.  For those who are smart enough to purchase and drive used cars, we would have to retrofit our cars.  Guess who would pay for that?  Guess who would have to maintain that?    If it goes out, guess who has to pay to have it fixed?

Oh but wait.  Like late night only on TV offers, this gets better.

Gas stations will have to pay for the new technology to read the devices and collect the taxes.  They will have additional expenses. Guess who will be covering those expenses?

You got it Johnny!  We the people will!

This is the kind of stealth tax the government loves.  Why?  Because we do not realize we are paying it.

How much do we really pay in income taxes?  Most of us don’t know.  Why?  Because it is withheld from our paychecks.  It is hard to complain about the money you never receive.  If Americans actually had to write a check to pay their taxes, there would be riots in the streets!

Do you own a house?  Then the expression PITI should be familiar to you.   That is the acronym for the total amount you pay every month.  Guess what?  The “T” stands for taxes.  You don’t know how much your property taxes are because that is figured into your monthly payment.

Complaining about the price of gas?  The government makes nineteen times the profit off of a gallon of case than the oil companies. Yet we never know it because we just keep paying.

Obama lies again.  He wants to soak the poor, the middle class and anyone who takes a breath, with taxes.   One of the symbols of freedom in America is the open road and the ability to take your car and just drive.  Another symbol of freedom is under attack by Obama and his regime.  They probably won’t be happy until the private ownership of cars is a thing of the past.

Hopefully, the House of Representatives will have the good sense to make sure this proposal is dead on arrival.  

 

From: FactCheck.org

Misleading e-mail:  From Audacity of Hope: "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."

Actual quote from "The Audacity of Hope" [pg. 261]:  Of course, not all my conversations in immigrant communities follow this easy pattern. In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories of detentions and FBI questioning and hard stares from neighbors have shaken their sense of security and belonging. They have been reminded that the history of immigration in this country has a dark underbelly; they need specific assurances that their citizenship really means something, that America has learned the right lessons from the Japanese internments during World War II, and that I will stand with them should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.