Remember this from Obama’s State of the Union address last week:
“If you make more than one million dollars a year, you should not pay less than thirty percent in taxes… In fact, if you’re earning a million dollars a year, you shouldn’t get special tax subsidies or deductions.”
Below for your viewing pleasure is a picture of Barack & Michelle Obama’s 2010 tax return. On page 2 one will see the Obamas in spite of Obama’s quote above, made $1,795,614 and took $373,289 worth of deductions:
The “everyone but me” rule applies here.
Obama paid approximately $454,000 in taxes which amounts to 25% of his income, not the 30% he lectures should be paid by “millionaires,” and he is one.
Anyone who wishes to peruse the entire 59-page return, it can be found here.
Knock yourselves out.
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20111221-707599.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhzMEtD349Y
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/199601616?pgno=2&queryText
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_India
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But you haven’t addressed the issue at hand in the article.
I’m not sure why this makes him a hypocrite. Obama is proposing that taxes on millionaires should be raised to this level, and really just in a quote, it would take both houses to pass a law imposing a 30 percent tax rate even on himself, and then he’d have to sign it into law. This is as dumb as pretending that Romney’s 13.7% (legal) rate is some kind of a crime… it is a big deal, both of them should pay more, but it is hardly hypocrisy to pay the legal tax rate, and anyone who cares to take the time and effort to utilize legal deductions is only working within the law, not to mention that at his level of income there is no way he does his own taxes, the only way it makes sense to do them yourself is if you make less than 50,000 per year.
Hy-po-crite:
“A person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.”
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/hypocrite
Obama is a “hypocrite” because he is doing “say as I do, NOT as I do.” Romney doesn’t matter in this instance. What matters is that the President of the United States is telling the rest of us to do not as HE does, but what he SAYS the rest of us should do.