Obama vs. Taxes

Sorry if this post isn't as interesting or humorous as the last one, but I just got back from the football game (Tucker is a bulldozer at left guard. Pancake city!) and it's late.

On Tuesday the popular Barack Obama revealed that he plans to shift the tax burden from the poor the rich, as stated in this L.A. Times article: http://tinyurl.com/2mcj7w. As well as revealing his plans for tax cut repeals from the rich, Obama gave some ideas for cutting taxes or giving certain tax relief to the poor elderly, among many other people. I find it interesting that he reveals his plans to do this after revealing some parts of his plans for national healthcare as well. It seemed sketchy as it was how much money he planned on squeezing out of the current system for future healthcare, so he was really heavily relying on the money from repealing the wealthy's tax cuts already. Sure he will be making the less wealthy more happy, but in the end with tax relief for those people the result will probably not be a very big gain in the national budget.

Obama has centered much of his campaign over being the 'Washington outsider.' While he mostly uses this to separate himself from that manly 'Washington insider,' Hillary Clinton, I think that this move really shows how much of an outsider he is. Everybody knows that Obama is a fundraising machine, but it would be pretty absurd to think that every penny comes from fifty dollar donations from Jenny and Joe down the street. Nor is he running a lemonade stand (though Obama brand lemonade would be absolutely GENIOUS!). Fact is, a good chunk of that money probably came from corporations, or the very wealthy, the evil special interest groups; you know the people that would get mad at these kind of changes in the taxing system. Obama might find out that dealing with these people might be just a little difficult, as they expect something back for their support.

For the record, I'm not an Obama trasher. In fact, I sorta like the guy. But it gets tiring hearing the same stuff every year, it's not like you expect a guy to come out and say he'll tax the poor more heavily. Honestly, if some dude with balls came out and said, "Yep. I plan taxing the hell out of the poor and letting the fat cats live it up with tax cuts," I might vote for him just to see the change. I mean really that's what ends up happening anyways, so why try to hide it by giving these speeches?