Yet another tax increase to push back against. (HT AR15.com)

Once again President Obama has shown his true leftist colors. From the Associated Press:

In a sharp challenge to the GOP, President Barack Obama proposed paying for his costly new jobs plan Monday with tax hikes that Republicans have already emphatically rejected. The reception to his new proposal was no more welcoming, setting the stage for a likely new fight with Congress.

Flanked at the White House by workers he said the legislation would help, Obama declared, "This is the bill that Congress needs to pass. No games. No politics. No delays." He sent it to Capitol Hill saying, "The only thing that's stopping it is politics."

The president's proposal drew criticism from House Speaker John Boehner, who'd previously responded in cautious but somewhat receptive tones to the $447 billion jobs plan made up of tax cuts and new spending that Obama first proposed in an address to Congress last Thursday.The biggest piece of the payment plan would raise about $400 billion by eliminating certain deductions, including on charitable contributions, that can be claimed by wealthy taxpayers. Obama has proposed that in the past — to help pay for his health care overhaul, for example — and it's been shot down by Republican lawmakers along with some Democrats.

Yet by daring Republicans anew to reject tax hikes on the rich Obama could gain a talking point as the 2012 presidential campaign moves forward, if not a legislative victory.

At a Rose Garden event Monday, Obama brandished his jobs bill and surrounded himself with police officers, firefighters, teachers, construction workers and others he said would be helped by it. Adopting a newly combative tone that's been welcomed by dispirited Democrats, Obama demanded immediate action on the legislation, which the White House sent to Capitol Hill Monday afternoon.

"Instead of just talking about America's job creators, let's actually do something for America's job creators," he said.

Even the AP knows that this plan is costly. Obama wants more new spending, something Americans are sick of. He's not listening to the majority of voters, and the lamestream media can't figure out why his approval numbers are so low. Eliminating deductions means he wants to raise taxes. Again, Democrat = Tax Increase.

Then there's the people he surrounded himself with, "police officers, firefighters, teachers, construction workers". These are mostly public sector workers. Their union bosses would be the primary beneficiaries of this plan. This doesn't help job creators because the job creators are in the private sector. They're being hampered by heavy regulations from the EPA, Dept. of Agriculture, and the Interior Dept. among others. Again, the more people who have private sector jobs, the more people who can pay taxes, which increase treasury revenues.

If he's serious about helping job creators, then unleash the private sector. Lose the heavy handed regulations, lower corporate taxes and capital gains, especially for small businesses. That will allow companies to hire and expand. More people working means more people engaging in commerce which makes the economy grow. Zero job growth in August should tell you his economic policy is a disaster, and we have to reverse course.

Background Reading:

AP: Obama would raise taxes to pay for his jobs bill

Democrats Reveal Themselves On Bush Tax Cuts

They want more in 2011.



Recently there's been chatter about some Democrats wanting to extend the Bush Tax Cuts. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) put that to the test by proposing not one, but two amendments to keep them in place. The results? From the Heritage Foundation:

"the Senate also defeated two amendments by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), both by 58-42 votes, that would have prevented the largest tax hike in American history. And earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden told ABC News that the only thing wrong with President Barack Obama’s first $862 billion economic stimulus was that it didn’t borrow and spend enough.

The message to the U.S. economy’s job creators from this Administration and Congress is clear: You can expect higher spending, higher taxes and higher deficits for years to come. The verdict on this approach is in. Today the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor and Statistics released its monthly jobs report showing the economy shed 131,000 jobs in July as 143,000 temporary census workers lost their government jobs. With the private sector only managing to add 71,000 jobs and averaging only 51,000 jobs over the past three months, the private economy appears stuck in first gear. Despite the job losses, the nation’s unemployment rate didn’t budge from 9.5% because another 181,000 discouraged workers left the workforce. All told the U.S. economy has now lost 2.4 million jobs since President Barack Obama signed his stimulus bill, and his administration is 7.6 million jobs short of what he promised the American economy would support by 2010.

Faced with this failure, the Obama administration wants to double down on its tax and spend policies by hiking taxes on America’s job creators. Research on the last seven recessions shows that small businesses generate about two out of every three new jobs during recoveries. But the $3.2 trillion Obama Tax Hike in January will hit these businesses the hardest. As Heritage Foundation analyst Curtis Dubay has detailed, while only eight percent of small businesses pay the highest two tax rates, those businesses earn 72 percent of all small business income and pay 82 percent of all income taxes paid by small businesses. According to a study by the American Family Business Foundation, just stopping President Obama’s Death Tax hike alone would create 1.5 million jobs.

But lower taxes and a more dynamic private sector is not the direction that President Obama wants to take the country. Obama’s economic direction is obviously not popular among conservatives, and is now becoming less and less popular among independents and liberals. As Slate columnist David Weigel told National Review’s Dan Foster this week: “It is like the biggest failing of Obama, and I keep saying this, that he just can’t be honest about the fact that he wants America to be more like Europe. Obviously he does.” We couldn’t agree more."

The Bottom Line: The Democrats in the U.S. Senate have once again prove the formula, Democrat = Tax Increase rings true. King Hussein and the Democrats tax increases will make this nation and its citizens poorer. This is yet another reason why Americans need to throw out as many Democrats as possible in November.

Background Reading:

WSJ: Democrats Dissent on Bush Cuts
Askheritage.org: Will the Obama Tax Hike Lead America Closer to an European Welfare State?