March 1, 2009 (World News Trust) -- Obama's campaign promises, clones of the promises made by Hillary, have been submitted to Congress as the budget outline. If it is not just talk, it will be amusing to watch those that backed Obama because he was a not serious about matching Hillary's proposals -- he was "someone business could work with" -- react to having Hillary's proposals enacted.
But it is a long way from proposal to enactment -- and those Democratic Party members who say they back Obama/Hillary-like proposals have a habit of being willing to "consider alternatives" in return for a good sized campaign contributions.
We can expect every GOP member to be bought and paid for and proudly wearing a sign on their forehead saying "property of the rich and corporate" and "We will will vote no" -- all the while trying to sell the same old/same old of "average cost" of programs to "average family" (total cost divided by total number of families -- the differences in assets and income between the top 5 percent and the rest only matters when they want to say that that the rich pay most of the taxes -- forgetting that the rich have an even higher percentage of the income and assets in this country). Indeed Fox has been on that "average family" nonsense 24/7 for a few days now -- with CNN not far behind.
The other GOP theme is the coming closing of the churches because of lack of donations (CNN had a soup kitchen manager -- black of course in this era of Obama -- saying he feared for the donations that support his kitchen if taxes on the rich are raised with a lower tax reduction value for charitable contributions).
Per the GOP, we are destroying the charitable nature of our country with this "class warfare" decrease in the amount of reduced taxes obtained by making a charitable contribution (Obama would limit the reduction to the Reagan era's maximum reduction of 28 percent of whatever is given -- but Ronnie is not a hero to the conservatives when he can't be used to justify a lower rate on the rich).
Of course Ronnie -- and Bush -- decreasing taxes on the rich so that a greater proportion of Federal FIT was paid by the non-rich was not "class warfare" by the GOP on the non-rich. Indeed Fox (of course) and CNN have yet to make this point that the GOP past tax cuts could be viewed as "class warfare on the non-rich." And the concept that the rising wage cap for payroll taxes, meaning major income tax increases for the non-rich while only minor increases relative to total wages for the rich, are in effect class warfare on the non-rich -- well that just has not been part of the theme our media has been told to feed us.
It will be a fun moment when Obama's health care, energy, and other proposals are passed (assuming they are passed), and the con-job business types that worked so hard to defeat Hillary realize they ended up with Hillary's proposals.
I really really want to see that moment.
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William Chirolas brings 40 years of real-world business experience in local, state, national, and international tax, pensions, and finance to the world of blogging. A graduate of MIT, he calls the Boston area home, except when visiting kids and grandkids.