The MSM & GOP Continue to Lie about TAXES
ABC News helps the GOP and Pawlenty make stuff up about Obama admin middle class taxes: here.
The GOP voted AGAINST middle class tax cuts that were in the stimulus bill. And the mainstream media continue to just simply reguritate GOP talking points.
Everyone making under $250k/year is already seeing more income in their paychecks thanks to the middle class tax cuts. But Republicans ALL voted against it. Now they try to say that Obama is taxing TOO MUCH because there are no middle class tax cuts in the budget??
What a complete crock. And ABC News and the MSM allow them to get away with more lies like this. There are NO tax increases in this budget.
But will there be FACTUAL coverage of taxes and the budget? Certainly not. The GOP is allowed to fill the coverage with noise and loose "facts".
There is also NO small business tax and the tax INCREASE is simply allowing the damaging Bush wealthy class tax gifts to expire in 2011 to go BACK to the 2001 level of 39% from 36%.
The media coverage of TAXES and this BUDGET has been abysmal.
Most of the television media is poorly presented and therefore talking points will rule the day. In order to make the most simplistic product for consumption, media outlets must pit Obama's policies against an "equal" challenger and that challenger is the GOP. It's ok though because Obama and Democrats will win the media war in 2010 by running on a good record and swamping the airwaves with ads due to good fund raising.
April 11, 2009 10:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, there's a kernal of truth to it, which is all the excuse the MSM needs to swallow a GOP talking point whole. Unable to kick the addiction to smoke, mirrors and general accounting fakery that's been a hallmark of Congressional budgeting for the last thirty years, Kent Conrad dropped a provision in expiring the middle class tax cut in 2010 when he knows full damn well no one's going to let that happen in an election year.
April 12, 2009 11:08 AM | Reply | Permalink