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RUSH: This is hilarious now. As you know we have chronicled Obama\u2019s ceiling on tax increases — I should say the floor, whatever. That number is 250K a year, and it goes down to 150 if you listen to Biden. By the way, they have sent Biden to the back waters on the campaign. Biden, you can\u2019t find him out there. He\u2019s in states, but you don\u2019t know where he\u2019s going. He\u2019s in Delaware. He\u2019s in a lot of other places out there, and they have enforced the teleprompter on him. They have enforced the teleprompter. I knew he would be the gift that kept on giving. Steven Greenhouse here in the New York Times. ‘For Incomes Below $100,000, a Better Tax Break in Obama\u2019s Plan. ‘The center left Tax Policy Center in this story tries to help out the Obama campaign. They say that… <\/p>\n

Now, get this. We\u2019ve all heard Obama talk about a tax cut if you make less than $250,000. They say in the New York Times story today, ‘When Obama says he\u2019ll cut taxes on families $150,000 or less, that part is true,\u2019 and this is in the New York Times! They\u2019re essentially calling him a liar. Not totally because anybody making less than a 150, I mean it\u2019s pretty true, Obama\u2019s plan is pretty true. This story ought to be called, ‘The Incredible Shrinking Obama Tax Cut,\u2019 but the dirty little secret is once again, ladies and gentlemen, there will be no tax cut for anybody. The Bush tax cuts of 2001-2003 expire in 2010. Everybody\u2019s tax rates are going up to the Clinton levels in the nineties, and if you\u2019re not paying income taxes — and about 40% of Americans aren\u2019t — how can you get a tax cut? How can you get an income tax cut? <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t. You\u2019re just going to get a wealth transfer. You\u2019re going to get an income transfer. You\u2019re not getting a tax cut. So this is all smoke and mirrors, and it\u2019s all now starting to trickle out. Now, this story on Obama lowering expectations is again a UK story, the Times Online. It\u2019s by Tim Reid in Washington. I gotta tell you something, folks. The British papers are coming up with much more relevant news than our news media combined. ‘Barack Obama\u2019s senior advisers have drawn up plans to lower expectations for his presidency if he wins next week\u2019s election, amid concerns that many of his euphoric supporters are harbouring unrealistic hopes of what he can achieve,\u2019 such as he\u2019s going to keep them in their houses and keep their gas tanks full. He\u2019s going to pay for it. <\/p>\n

‘The sudden financial crisis and the prospect of a deep and painful recession have increased the urgency inside the Obama team to bring people down to earth, after a campaign in which his soaring rhetoric and promises of ‘hope\u2019 and ‘change\u2019 are now confronted with the reality of a stricken economy.\u2019 We need to be very careful about this, folks. Obama is lowering his expectations. We cannot let him get away with this. There are two reasons, if not more. Obama has spent, what, a year and a half or two years making these promises, raising expectation. He has been the candidate of the lofty rhetoric. He has been promising hope and change! He\u2019s been promising to go wipe out all problems, he\u2019s going to make the United States loved by everybody in the world. <\/p>\n

He has been lying about our country. He has been lying about his vision. But more importantly, he will go far in implementing his left-wing agenda of massive welfare redistribution and tax increases. He wants a single-payer national health care plan, all of those things. The point of this is, Obama\u2019s going to get most of what he wants to implement, but most of it won\u2019t work! This is the key. He\u2019s gonna get most of it, and most of it will not work. All of it so far will not work, not in the long term. So, they\u2019re putting out stories, ‘He\u2019s gotta lower expectations. People are expecting utopia out there! There\u2019s this euphoria.\u2019 He created it! Obama created these expectations. Now he\u2019s got to lower them. Sad thing is, this whole campaign of fluff and imagery has succeeded.<\/p>\n

But Obama has never been about the middle class. He has always been about destroying American society as it\u2019s constituted, and punishing success. What Obama wants to do is destroy capitalism and expand government, and that is the truth that this illusionary campaign has covered up throughout the past year and a half. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Audio sound bites this morning on our Denver blowtorch affiliate KOA, Governor Bill Richardson.<\/p>\n

RICHARDSON: What Obama wants to do is — is he is basically looking at $120,000 and under among those that are in the middle class, and there is a tax cut for those.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, all good, Governor Richardson, they\u2019ve buttoned up Biden, but you\u2019ve taken his place. They\u2019ve got Biden on the teleprompter, now here\u2019s Bill Richardson saying it\u2019s down to $120,000. Anything above $120 and you get a tax increase. Let\u2019s go back, here\u2019s Obama, July 7th.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If Senator McCain wants a debate about taxes in this campaign, then it is a debate I\u2019m happy to have, because if you\u2019re a family making less than $250,000 a year, my plan will not raise your tax.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s July 7th; it was 250. Richardson just today on KOA Denver, 120. Later in the campaign, just recently, very slyly, Obama reduced the number to 200.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: If you have a job, pay taxes, and make less than $200,000 a year, you\u2019ll get a tax cut.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And then the Chia Pet, Joe Biden, TV interview, October 27th, this week lowered it again.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: It should go like it used to, it should go to middle-class people, people making under $150,000 a year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In Obama\u2019s infomercial taped last week.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: As president here\u2019s what I\u2019ll do: Cut taxes for every working family making less than $200,000 a year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, as president, he\u2019ll cut taxes for every working family making less than 200. So we\u2019ve gone from 120, to 250, to 200, to 150, now we\u2019re back to 200, here\u2019s Obama yesterday.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: How many people make less than a quarter million dollars a year? Raise your hands. All right, that would appear to be the majority of you. Now, no matter what Senator McCain may claim, here are the facts. If you make under $250,000, you will not see your taxes increase by a single dime, not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains tax, no tax. The last thing we should do is — in this economy is raise taxes on the middle class.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you\u2019re going to do it. You\u2019re going to raise taxes on everybody, doofus, when the Bush tax cuts expire. Let\u2019s go back to Bill Richardson. This campaign cannot get this straight. This morning in Denver, via phone on KOA.<\/p>\n

RICHARDSON: What Obama wants to do is — is he is basically looking at $120,000 and under among those that are in the middle class, and there is a tax cut for those.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you can\u2019t keep a lie straight. This is the problem. The fact is everybody\u2019s going to get a tax increase. None of these numbers are right. I got an e-mail. This was fascinating. Very seldom people ask me how we do what we do here, they just accept it, this is broadcast excellence, and they just think this happens, which it does, I mean it\u2019s taken a lot of years to set up the system. ‘Rush, how are you so able to go back and get sound bites that you played years ago?\u2019 We have an excellent filing system, it\u2019s a great archive. Cookie Prayias does this, and it\u2019s magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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