{"id":40160,"date":"2014-03-04T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=40160"},"modified":"2014-03-04T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T15:00:44","slug":"tax-cuts-are-only-good-in-election-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=40160","title":{"rendered":"Tax cuts are only good in election years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/a> that the Obama White House is planning to buy votes in the mid-term elections by giving tax breaks to the unwashed masses;<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama will propose an expansion of popular tax credits for middle class and working poor Americans on Tuesday in a fiscal 2015 budget designed to serve as a blueprint for Democrats in this year’s congressional elections.<\/p>\n

The budget, which would also create automatic retirement accounts known as IRAs for some 13 million workers, has little chance of getting enacted.<\/p>\n

But it codifies the president’s policy priorities ahead of the November race, in which Democrats hope to keep control of the U.S. Senate and Republicans hope to expand their majority in the House of Representatives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I always support tax breaks for everyone, but this seems to be targeted towards a majority of voters, instead of a majority of Americans. That makes it more of a class warfare thing, meant to polarize Americans. It also comes at a time when veterans are being told to give up more, further alienating groups of Americans.<\/p>\n

[Obama’s] proposal would expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, a government anti-poverty measure that is meant to encourage low-income Americans to work. The expansion would cover some 13.5 million people who do not have children.<\/p>\n

It would also make the program available to younger workers who are not currently eligible, the White House said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So basically, we’re pitting “the poor” against the rich and the troops. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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