Obama Rejects Obamaism

He claimed we can afford future Medicare costs if we raise taxes on the rich. He repeated the old half-truth about millionaires not paying as much in taxes as their secretaries. (In reality, the top 10 percent of earners pay nearly 70 percent of all income taxes, according to the I.R.S. People in the richest 1 percent pay 31 percent of their income to the federal government while the average worker pays less than 14 percent, according to the Congressional ... Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Sep 19, 2011 - 9:00 PM PDT
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Sep 21, 2011 - 11:31 AM PDT

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Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Sep. 21, 2011
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J. B. Van Wely
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by J. B. Van Wely - Sep. 22, 2011

No. It's an opinion piece. And while I somewhat agree that the Obama proposals are campaign positioning, Mr. Brooks's entire essay is poisoned by the confusion tax amount with tax rate.

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Robin Osborne McMullen
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by Robin Osborne McMullen - Sep. 23, 2011

This is opinion, not reportage. Brooks uses language intended to pander to his readers, e.g., "I'm an Obama sap" the subtext of which is "you're a sap if you believe President Obama." Brooks refers to the Congressional Budget Office as his source for the assertion that "People in the richest 1 percent pay 31 percent of their income to the federal government while the average worker pays less than 14 percent." but offers no link or other means by which the reader might verify the assertion.

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