CONTRARY TO OBAMA'S RHETORIC, THE BUFFETT TAX WOULD RAISE AN INSIGNIFICANT AMOUNT RELATIVE TO HIS BINGE SPENDING
Los Angeles Times : "The Proposed Buffett Rule Is More A Political Statement Than A Deficit-Reduction Tool, Given How Little Money It Would Raise." Los Angeles Times, 9/20/11)
OBAMA HAS TO RAISE TAXES TO PAY FOR HIS FAILED POLICIES AND WASTEFUL SPENDING
$347.1 Billion: Total Cost Of The Interest On The Money Borrowed To Pay For The Stimulus Over The Next Decade. (Douglas Elmendorf, Letter To Rep. Paul Ryan, Congressional Budget Office, 1/27/09)
$34.7 Billion: Loans Handed Out To Companies Like Solyndra Through The Department Of Energy 1705 Loan Program. ("The Financing Behind America's Clean Energy Environment," Department Of Energy, Accessed 4/9/12)
$24 Billion: Stimulus Contracts And Grants Awarded To Over 3,700 Recipients That Were Delinquent On Their Federal Taxes. ("Thousands Of Recovery Act Contract And Grant Recipients Owe Hundreds Of Millions In Federal Taxes," Government Accountability Office, 4/28/11)
$4.75 Billion: Stimulus Funds Awarded Through The Weatherization Assistance Program. ("Progress And Challenges In Spending Weatherization Funds," Government Accountability Office, 12/16/11)
$4.3 Billion: Stimulus Funds For California's High-Speed "Train To Nowhere." (Daisy Nguyen, "Critics Pan Proposed High-Speed Rail Segment," The Associated Press, 12/1/10)
