First point on corporate tax cuts: This does not accompany reductions in government spending, the lion's share of which goes into the military to fund our serial wars and skirmishes.

Second point: Gov. has bestowed billions of dollars of corporate tax cuts per year for the past 30 years, all of which supposedly would result in "massive job creation." Well, I suppose it did -- in India, Thailand, Mexico, etc., etc. Not in the US, in spite of the fact that some corporations pay little or no taxes.

We are coping with the horrendous consequences of such skewed and irresponsible corporate welfare today.

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by the way, Rush has nothing to do with the Republican Party... he's a radio jock. So this is another childish mental prank.

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I don't understand what's so hard to understand that cutting taxes costs nothing (except the gov't may need to work with less finances for a short term)... and it reaps tons fo benefits like: more business growth, more money in people's pockets, more consumer spending, and the most important is that small business (who gets taxed on the personal level) can grow and market and employ A GREAT DEAL MORE! I know, I am a small business owner for 12 years now. I've writtne to my state congress people... they don't want to hear my plea... they want to listen to themselves... basically telling me that I'm too stupid to understand... but tey can understand better. Makes me real mad!

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The idea that Rush or anyone who likes to listen to him doesn't want to have a Black man as president is laughable. It's the man's core beliefs that are problematic. It was the Democrats who wondered in the Primary if Obama was authentically Black enough. Conservatives and Republicans aren't against people of color...Condi Rice, Colin Powell, Michael Steele, Thomas Sowell, Bobby Jindal, etc. While I'm not defending Rush for questioning Michael J. Fox having Parkinson’s (Rush sometimes has foot-in-mouth disease), it's adult stem cell research that holds the possibilities of cures. Undifferentiated embryonic stem cells result in those cells turning into cancerous ones in mice. Private research was never prohibited by Bush, nor using the remaining embryonic stem cell line. As far as Obama inheriting 8 years of Bush's mess, there is plenty of blame to go around. Hellooo, Democrats! Hellooo, Barney Frank!

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M.D. Mr. Obama is "mulatto". That is the correct term for someone who is half Black and half White. He is NOT a black man. Would everyone PLEASE stop referring to him as "black"?!!!

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Promise #3: No Tax Hikes on the Poor

What he said first:

“I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” (September 12, 2008, Dover, N.H.)

What he did first:

By signing H.R. 2 into law, Obama happily signed onto the idea that smokers should pay for a $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Plan (SCHIP). Cigarette taxes are going up 61 cents a pack starting April 1. Obama signed this bill knowing that the majority of smokers in the United States are working poor, and one in four lives below the federal poverty line.

What he said next:

“If your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.” (February 24th, 2009, Address to a Joint Session of Congress)

What he did next:

Ignored the already-hiked cigarette tax at the time of the statement and then this restated promise was broken just two days later, when the Obama’s budget proposal was released. His new budget raises 45 percent of its revenue from energy taxes that will be paid by everyone who fills a gas tank, pays an electric bill, or buys anything that was grown, shipped, or manufactured.

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Promise #1: Big Government

OK, so this one is more of a statement than a promise, but it’s the biggest whopper of all.

What he said:

“Not because I believe in bigger government — I don’t.” (February 24, 2009, Joint Address to Congress)

What he did:

Obama proposed a budget that is breathtaking in scope, a blueprint for the biggest permanent expansion of government in history right on the heels of a sweeping trillion dollar stimulus plan. The budget lays the foundation for a government takeover of the health care and energy sectors and dramatically increasing spending across the board, other than defense weapons programs. Spending as a percentage of the economy under this budget will reach the historic level of 27.7 percent this year. The deficit as a percent of the economy, at 12.3 percent, is set to be the biggest in the entire history of the country outside of the four peak years of World War II. Anyone who offers such a budget can only fairly be described as a believer in bigger government.

Phil Kerpen is director of policy for Americans for Prosperity.

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Promise #2: Pork Barrel Earmark Reform

What he said:

“The system is broken. We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’ seniority, rather than the merit of the project. We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or non-profit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it. And we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.”

(Statement on Earmarks, March 10, 2008)

What he is expected to do:

The White House has signaled that it intends to sign the $410 billion Omnibus Appropriations bill, which according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, contains 8,570 earmarks totaling $7.7 billion, including dozens of wasteful pork-barrel projects. These earmarks were awarded based on seniority, not on merit, and were mostly the result of high-priced lobbying, precisely the process that Obama promised to end. When the omnibus reaches his desk later this week or next week, we’ll find out if this is one more broken promise.

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Promise #4: Lobbyist Revolving Door

What he said:

“No political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years. And no political appointee will be able to lobby the executive branch after leaving government service during the remainder of the administration.” (BarackObama.com campaign Web site)

What he did:

Obama appointed Goldman Sachs lobbyists Mark Patterson chief of staff at the Treasury Department, where he directly oversees his former employer, a recipient of $10 billion of taxpayer funds from the TARP. Obama also appointed Raytheon lobbyist William Lynn to be an undersecretary of Defense.

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Promise #5: Sunlight Before Signing

What he said:

“Too often bills are rushed through Congress and to the president before the public has the opportunity to review them. As president, Obama will not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days.” (BarackObama.com campaign Web site)

What he did:

Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter bill, the SCHIP/cigarette tax hike, and the stimulus bill all with far less than a five-day waiting period that he promised–and continues to promise–on his campaign Web site.

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