Matt Collins
08-01-2009, 05:53 PM
Obama's First Six Months: By the Numbers
http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs073/1102236309048/img/39.jpg?a=1102655847150July 17, 2009 marked President Barack Obama's first six months in office.
Americans for Tax Reform, a non-partisan group that works for lower taxes and smaller government, marked the occasion by assembling the following numbers (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102655847150&s=57420&e=001YotAiyLRmDprmFaV0TMiOw1qKIihIQ2lqwedBJaVNPOL2 2usv2v5fenBl_9amPtqsbFdTA3-ta1A5A-kmvv75ohO_NdnM5OvEM_likIjjkqYlpfdvwDVJjJ19lGlhoypM M6xTmfAfXgnX-QDfeLnkdeXq3H4am4z) to evaluate Obama's performance:
10: Number of years it will take to *double* the national debt under the Obama budget.
16: Number of days it took Obama to break his central campaign promise to not raise "any form" of taxes on Americans earning less than $250,000 per year by signing an increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco. (The median income of smokers is $36,000 per year.)
153: Number of days it took Obama to abandon his campaign promise to allow the public to view legislation on his desk for five full days: "When there's a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government's doing."
500: Number of Fortune 500 companies who would ship jobs abroad as a result of Obama's proposed double taxation of American companies overseas.
0: Number of developed countries that have a higher corporate income tax rate than the United States (we're tied with Japan at 40%).
33%: The percentage of families filing a tax return that had zero or less in income taxes paid (making it mathematically impossible to cut taxes for "95 percent of working families").
800,000: Minimum number of Americans attending anti-Big Government tea parties since Obama's inauguration.
http://origin.ih.constantcontact.com/fs073/1102236309048/img/39.jpg?a=1102655847150July 17, 2009 marked President Barack Obama's first six months in office.
Americans for Tax Reform, a non-partisan group that works for lower taxes and smaller government, marked the occasion by assembling the following numbers (http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102655847150&s=57420&e=001YotAiyLRmDprmFaV0TMiOw1qKIihIQ2lqwedBJaVNPOL2 2usv2v5fenBl_9amPtqsbFdTA3-ta1A5A-kmvv75ohO_NdnM5OvEM_likIjjkqYlpfdvwDVJjJ19lGlhoypM M6xTmfAfXgnX-QDfeLnkdeXq3H4am4z) to evaluate Obama's performance:
10: Number of years it will take to *double* the national debt under the Obama budget.
16: Number of days it took Obama to break his central campaign promise to not raise "any form" of taxes on Americans earning less than $250,000 per year by signing an increase in the federal excise tax on tobacco. (The median income of smokers is $36,000 per year.)
153: Number of days it took Obama to abandon his campaign promise to allow the public to view legislation on his desk for five full days: "When there's a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it, so that you know what your government's doing."
500: Number of Fortune 500 companies who would ship jobs abroad as a result of Obama's proposed double taxation of American companies overseas.
0: Number of developed countries that have a higher corporate income tax rate than the United States (we're tied with Japan at 40%).
33%: The percentage of families filing a tax return that had zero or less in income taxes paid (making it mathematically impossible to cut taxes for "95 percent of working families").
800,000: Minimum number of Americans attending anti-Big Government tea parties since Obama's inauguration.