Obama's Fair Share

I didn't bother to watch Obama's State of the Union address.  It would have annoyed hell out of me.  All too predictably it was a campaign speech and nothing more.  Obama's campaign speeches invariably appeal to envy.

We can either settle for a country where a shrinking number of people do really well, while a growing number of Americans barely get by. Or we can restore an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules. What's at stake are not Democratic values or Republican values, but American values. We have to reclaim them.

As always, Obama's call for everyone to do their fair share is really an accusation that somebody is not.  Who could that be?

How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.

Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.

Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether.

A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama's executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven't paid any share, let alone their fair share.

Obama stokes the engine for his re-election with envy and jealousy.  It's his his plan for deflecting blame from how own policy failures, and unfortunately there might just be enough people willing to accept his easy answer:  The rich — that would be the Republicans — are to blame.

To some extent he's been successful.  The Occupy Wall Street crowd listens to him.  They are his creatures, the ones most receptive to his message.  They heard it and rushed out into the street to demand answers.  How is it possible that somebody has something and that they don't have.  Somebody must be made to pay. 

But it turns out that Obama's people do pretty well, yet somehow they've been reluctant to pay their fair share.  No surprise there.  Taxes are for the little people.

Comments

[Colonel Mustard]

Excellent post. My favorite part is: "Obama stokes the engine for his re-election with envy and jealousy." That is so true. It worked before, and we'll have to be careful that it doesn't work again. If people would realize that manipulators like Obama use envy & jealousy then they'd see through his BS. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Sheila Jackson-Lee, Maxine Waters, & others are good at manipulating & fooling, too.