Rich Ask Obama To Raise Their Taxes! – MSNBC w/ Cenk
Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks) on MSNBC Live speaks with millionaires who signed a letter asking president Obama to let the Bush tax cuts for the rich expire. ______ Some liberal millionaires are putting their money where their mouths are: they are calling on Democrats to stay true to their word and allow the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest to expire next year. Joining the likes of Warren Buffett and George Soros, a calling themselves “patriotic millionaires” want President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats to raise their taxes to levels before former President George W. Bush cut them in 2001. “We have done very well over the last several years,” about 50 millionaires including several early Google Inc. executives and the founder of IAC’s Ask.com, say in a letter to leaders. “We don’t need more tax cuts, and we understand that cutting our taxes will increase the deficit and the debt burden carried by other taxpayers.” Obama wants to let lower tax rates expire above the first $200000 of an individual’s income but has been clashing with Republicans, and some in his own party, in Congress on a deal to prevent all taxpayers from seeing hikes on January 1. The group is asking policymakers to extend the higher rates for those making more than $1 million. New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer has suggested that benchmark, as have some others. “They felt comfortable speaking for themselves and their income bracket,” a spokeswoman for the group said. The …
come on people people like obama will nto use your taxes to make more wars its peopel like the republicans who do stuff like that obama will not do that but since you have elected republican congress you are asking for stuff like that to happen republicans help keep oil companys rich and the help nothing but war way is only good for companys since when have americans got the point were they are so dam radical you rich ass fucks got radical ass thinking going on
He who gives to the? poor will never want, but he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.
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@SuckMyPhallus He who gives to the? poor will never want, but he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.
Proverbs
@shakidaki Learn economics. Giving money to the govt so that they can start wars (blowing things up and killing people), so they can bail out banks, buy up toxic assets, so they can spend and consumer resources without producing(driving up the cost of living) does not make a better economy. Government harms the economy so we should keep as much money out of politicians hands as possible.
Please tax the Middle Class Obama. After all someone has to flip the bill in Lybia, and Obama knows if you tax us rich, we will just move out of the state that has the heavy tax bracket, go to a state that has lower taxes. Use massive amounts that not even George Schwartz AKA Soros has and get Obama unelected. Kerry stood up to the rich, that is why he was not President. THE RICH OWN THIS COUNTRY. MONKEYS LIKE OBAMA CAN BE BOUGHT. Raise the gas prices for my stock. The middle class PAY.
The rich own Obama. Just another political add to get your vote and let you down. Are we out of Iraq? NO, Did Guantanamo Bay close? NO Obama said the Muslim community will be are friend after Bush leaves office? NO, that is why we are fighting Lybia under this President. Gas Prices are up and BIG OIL is making tons of dough. YOU BELIEVE IN CHANGE, YOU TRUST OBAMA, YOU PEOPLE ARE INDEED THE PUNCH LINE OF THE JOKE. The RICH OWN OBAMA. Obama will tax the Middle Class. Thank you Obama.
Interesting, when Obama wanted to tax people making under $250,000 the public said HELL NO. Now that the cost has been raised to 1 million, its OK. Look I am not going to believe a bunch of rich guys who get tax breaks from President Obama, the same Obama who allowed GE the company that owns MSNBC to get tax breaks on foreign trips to tell Obama they want the taxes raised on Million-airs. Look idiots it won’t happen. In 2010 President Obama signed Tax Breaks for the rich. YOU BELIVE HIM NOW.
@shakidaki theft is still theft. it is up to the rich man whether he wants to donate or not.
@SuckMyPhallus the poor cant help the poor people were not askign you ti give up all your money just lil tax increase were nto talking about increasing everything like gas prices wich are being increase due to the shit going on in libiya
people wake up and smell it obama wants to take those tax increases and spread the wealth people its time people started sharing their riches into the econamy
@SuckMyPhallus and also spending on putting people to work that actauly means your making more money than you are spending see people like you its time for you people who actualy illegaly obtained their money to pay up and go to prision just like these guys are saying how does it affect anyone who makes a large ass sum of money each year get affected at all by a tax increase
@SuckMyPhallus dont cost anything my ass it cost alot to us poor people working are asses off only making a few thousand a year
@Zaxxen69 tax cuts don’t cost anything, dumbass. spending costs.
@bestwayusa1 last i checked, god wants YOU to help the poor with your own money. god is watching you and judging YOU to be the one with the poor heart and soul, not the rich person. you don’t steal from the rich to feed yourself… you don’t steal from the rich to feed the poor either. and when the time of judgment comes, it will be you who’ll burn in hell while the rich man enters the gates of heaven.
so what have you done to help the poor recently? let me guess, nothing.
@19TEC85 people like you who dont want to pay taxes into the system are asking more bad econamy
@jgehb you have to raise taxes not cut them to help pay for our social programs i take it your rich and dont want to pay your share what is it realy goinng to do to you you still be able to buy your 1 million dallor cell phones 55 million people without health care just like he says rais taxes on the rich wich means a bigger spending budget
In Finland, you count as poor if you earn less than 29155 USD in a year. That’s 60% of the median income. I’m not saying things are getting better here, they’re actually getting worse quicker than in the US, despite good growth, no domestic financial crisis, etc. Just saying you need to have standards to try to live up to…
@Gabrielregalado2 lol I just basically posted the same thing, then saw you post.
At 3:22 That is the heart of all the problems our nation is facing. Our government no longer does what is “in the National interest”
Truly patriotic. However government needs to learn to live within it’s budget, just like it’s citizens do (well most).
1:23 thumbs up if you thought this was a problem with your speakers
@jgehb
they are millionaires duh
Anyone who would like to pay more in taxes should simply write bigger checks to the federal government. Hell, anyone who likes giving money to the black hole of government spending should pay up. As for those of us who love peace and freedom, it’s ugly to see you use government (force) to force other people at gun point to pay money to this evil government.
yeah right asking to raise their taxes … what bs
Too much makeup, Cenk.