Obama’s Hidden Fees - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Working Class Patriot · **^ Top** #1 2 Weeks Ago

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When the president does it, it’s not a tax

President Obama’s promise to raise taxes only on the wealthy was easy to make and easy to break. He broke it barely two weeks after taking office, and he will break it again if Congress passes the health care legislation he wants. But Obama has come up with a strategy to avoid the fate of George H.W. Bush: Although he will raise your taxes, he will never admit he is raising your taxes.

Campaigning in Dover, New Hampshire, in September 2008, Obama declared:“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.” [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link.

Five months later, Obama [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. a bill that more than doubled the federal cigarette tax, which falls especially heavily on the poor. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. that it didn’t really count, because “people make a decision to smoke.” Similarly, White House spokeswoman Linda Douglass [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. financial penalties for failing to obtain medical coverage are not taxes because “a fee would only be imposed on those few who could afford to purchase insurance but refuse to do so.”

Yet the fact that you can avoid a tax by changing your behavior does not mean it isn’t a tax.

You don’t pay gasoline taxes if you don’t drive, you don’t pay property taxes if you don’t own real estate, and you don’t pay income taxes if you don’t earn income. In this case, people are subject to the “fee” simply by virtue of living in the United States and choosing not to buy something the government thinks they should.
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boone315 · **^ Top** #2 2 Weeks Ago

I guess "fees" do not count as taxes, I went to get my CDL re-newed, the price of the haz-mat endorsement went from $15 to $148, but all of us truckers are rich anyway, right, hunting liscenses jumped by $40.00, but only the wealthy hunt to feed their families, We can no longer burn our garbage in our area because of the "health hazard" but now have to pay for somebody to come and haul it to landfills that aparently are no longer the problems that they once were(of course the ships that dump their oil and chemical tainted bilge in the St Lawrence river and the nylon factory on the Canadien side that makes the air un-breathable at times are perfectly acceptible), I could go on, but why bother

madbunny · **^ Top** #3 2 Weeks Ago

Isn't CHANGE great? NOT

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