Barack Obama Promotes Tax Fairness Policy in New Hampshire
According to a press release issued by Barack Obama's campaign on Monday, he spoke to voters in the New England state about the middle-class tax fairness policy he would work to implement as President. The roundtable event was held at the Black Orchid Grille, which is located in Nashua. A participant in the roundtable was quoted as saying that it has become much more difficult for people to "make ends meet", despite working hard, and going on to say that he believed Barack Obama would "fight" for the benefit of the middle class if elected President. The press release also indicated that he would be campaigning in New Hampshire for the next three days.
The tax fairness policy would include simplification of the tax code, the elimination of income taxes for seniors who receive less than fifty-thousand dollars per year, a credit for home owners who do not itemize their tax deductions, and other measures. Additionally, he calls for eliminating off-shore "tax havens" and loopholes for corporations. The press release stated that Obama's tax policy would reduce taxes for 800,000 people who live in New Hampshire, including 40,000 home owners and 30,000 seniors. Full details (PDF format) are offered on his campaign web site. The detailed version indicates that his plan includes making the tax code simple enough for "millions" of American taxpayers to complete their tax returns in only five minutes, by having the IRS use data from employers and banks to pre-fill most of the tax forms. It points out that the IRS estimated it took the average taxpayer twenty-eight hours in 2004.
According to wikipedia.org's entry on Senator Obama, he was born forty-six years ago in Hawaii. He received a Bachelor's Degree with a political science major at Columbia University in 1983 and began attending Harvard Law School in 1988. Obama became married in 1992, and was elected to the State Senate of Illinois in 1996. He was elected to the national Senate in 2004, and announced his intention to run for president in early 2007.
Sources:
1. Obama '08, http://www.barackobama.com/2007/10/22/obama_talks_middle_class_tax_f.php
http://my.barackobama.com/page/-/HQpress/New%20Hampshire%20fact%20sheet.pdf
2. Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama
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Post a CommentGood article! Anything to get people knowledgable about Obama. I think he's the only hope we've got to put this extreme partisan, do-nothing government back in shape. We especially need someone outside the political elite.
But, Sooner65, getting back to Obama, he is most definitely a sincere person, despite what you believe is his reasons for saying things. He believes in the Constitution, bipartisan co-operation between elected officials, that the government is, "of, for and by the people" and he wants to serve and lead, not rule and govern. Rather refreshing after these horrid years under the "decider" who thinks it would be easier if this were a dictatorship and he was the dictator; and much better than H. Clinton who thinks the government should lie to the people and wants power. She and GWB do not get that they are not the gov, we are. Obama gets it.
Actually, Sooner, saying "Robin Hood style of taxation" makes you sound like what you "guess" I am. The gov's idea seems to be to tax the middle class out of existance so that there will only be two classes of people: the rich and ruling and the poor that are ruled. Kind of like back in the day when slaves were forced to build pyramids for the Pharaohs; except today we are called employees and employers. Kellogg, Root & Brown, Halliburton, Dubai, Neil Bush (and I read Bill Clinton), Cheney, Hoffman-La Roche, Bird Flu vaccine, Bill Gates attempt at monopoly...verifiable facts.
Actually, Sooner65, I do not believe anything I hear and only 1/2 of what I see. According to those cute little political quizzes, I am smack dab in the middle, or a staunch moderate. I most often waste my vote, voting for a three (or more) party system, because most often I do not like the platforms and voting records of "any of the above". The first thing I thought when reading Obama's "Audacity" book, was what rock has he been living under; that he is a tad bit idealist, if he truly believes the majority of 'American' people are "decent".
Obama's heart is definitely in the right place, in being for the people and against government corruption. Do hope he is elected, because if so, we, the people will have a President willing to serve and lead to good stuff, unlike past admins that have turned the gov into a us versus them situation. Then we, the people, can lobby him to do something about the whole corrupt IRS system.