Obama LIES (about Taxes)

TAXES:

OBAMA SAID: "Rich doesn’t pay their fair share."

FACT:  according to the National Tax Payers Union:
The top 50% (people who make and ajusted gross income of over $32,396) pay 97.75% of the taxes collected.  While the bottom 50% (those whose AGI is under $32,396) pay only 2.25%.

OBAMA SAID: "Virtually every Senate Republican voted against the tax cut last week"

FACTS:
According to the Senate Roll Call, twenty Republicans voted for the measure to proceed, including Idaho's Mike Crapo and James Risch.On the other hand, every Democrat but one voted against it, including Washington's Patty Murray  and Maria Cantwell. Only John Kerry (D-MA) did not vote. Not one single Democrat voted for the tax cuts..Nevertheless, Obama took to the podium to falsely declare just the opposite

OBAMA SAID:  “Every idea that we’ve put forward are ones that traditionally have been supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.”
Like Raising taxes?

  

THE FACTS: Obama proposes to pay for his jobs bill by raising taxes, something traditionally opposed by Republicans and, in the form Obama proposed it, even some Democrats. Senate Democrats were so allergic to Obama’s approach, which relied largely on limiting deductions that can be taken by individuals making over $200,000 a year and couples making more than $250,000, that they’re eliminating it and replacing it with a new tax on millionaires.

OBAMA SAID:  You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren’t sold is not the problem

PRINCETON, NJ -- Americans' preferences for deficit reduction clearly favor spending cuts to tax increases, but most Americans favor a mix of the two approaches. Twenty percent favor an approach that relies only on spending cuts and 4% favor an approach that uses tax increases alone.