We Have a Budget Proposal

 

President Obama’s first.  It doesn’t sound communistic to me, despite some recent allegations by Conservative talk show host Alan Keyes.  According to the Washington Post, “President Obama is putting the finishing touches on an ambitious first budget that seeks to cut the federal deficit in half over the next four years, primarily by raising taxes on businesses and the wealthy and by slashing spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan”.     Cutting the deficit?  That sounds downright “Republicanesque”, although as you can gather from this;  http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/files/uploads/2009/02/Natl_Debt_Chart_367c0.jpg the Republicans can hardly have much to say.  But they will.  The GOP is so disorganized right now the only thing they can unite against is the President.  They can’t even turn to their base, because they have voted against helping them in the recent Stimulus plan.  But even rich conservatives don’t believe their own blather anymore.

*June 28, 2007
(Warren) Buffett blasts system that lets him pay less tax than secretary

"Mr. (Warren) Buffett said that he was taxed at 17.7 per cent on the $46 million he made last year, without trying to avoid paying higher taxes, while his secretary, who earned $60,000, was taxed at 30 per cent. Mr. Buffett told his audience, which included John Mack, the chairman of Morgan Stanley, and Alan Patricof, the founder of the US branch of Apax Partners, that US government policy had accentuated a disparity of wealth that hurt the economy by stifling opportunity and motivation. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/money/tax/article1996735.ece

 

Finally, to follow up on the very dim Republican State Senator in Utah, Chris Buttars…please check out this link:

http://www.sltrib.com/Salt%20Lake%20Tribune%20Home%20Page/ci_11757628

 Good luck.  

We always have HOPE.