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In reply to the discussion: Krugman: Obama and the One Percent [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Whose idea was the Making work pay credit.
It was "campaign Obama".
Then it was abandoned by "President Obama"
A pony? Again, it was Obama who said THIS, as recently as 2 January 2013 Obama: "An essential premise of my campaign was to change the tax code that was too skewed towards the wealthy, at the expense of working, middle class Americans...."
And including the TOP 20% in the upper MIDDLE class is just more "help the rich" bullsh*t.
It should be by quintiles
Poor - bottom 20%
middle class - middle 60%
rich - top 20%
super-rich - top 5%
ultra-rich - top 1%
super-duper rich - top 0.1%
But the "rich" (as I define it) just love to look up and say "I am not rich, look at those people way up there".
But here, let's let campaign Obama explain how the "top 6% is NOT part of the middle class" http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2618869
Would I have preferred that my taxes went up?
Actually yes. When I filed my taxes in 2010, I didn't claim my refund. I was prepared to not claim refunds for as long as my man Obama was President. Instead of a refund, just keep rolling it over on line 75 of the 1040.
But that was when I still had hope. Hope that Obama would "change the tax code that was too skewed towards the wealthy, at the expense of working, middle class Americans...." Something HE, himself, called "an essential premise of my campaign".
And Republicans controlling the House? That never helps.
But you may have forgotten. Obama did NOT fight the Republican House and lose. Instead he did not even bother to fight.