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Marked in Pgh on Monday, April 26, 2010 3:41:19 PM
A friend of mine was a big Obama fan. Not anymore. When Obama won in the 2008 election, he partied all night long. He told me the next day, "Isn't it great that one of us is now in the White House? I know you're one of those white conservative guys and you're probably mad that Obama is President."
"No," I said. "It doesn't matter what race he is. We're all going to be screwed by all the new taxes."
He thought I was nuts. Now he has new concerns.
Three weeks ago, just before April 15th, my friend had to admit something to me.
"That Obama is just another lying politicians! I qualified for that $400.00 tax refund, but now my taxes have increased beyond the refund and I owe more in taxes this year! At least with Bush, they didn't take back that $300.00 rebate." It was quite a revelation and admission.
The individual situations for his friends who had part-tiem work last year were even worse. "All my friends with part-time jobs have ended up owing even more money than me."
I could only agree. I was one of them. I was one of those greedy people, I had two jobs, a full time one and one part-time. Some people thought I was slefish for holding down both jobs and denying one to someone else. Well, some people work, and some don't; and though I lost that part-time job in the present economy, I've found another one starting next month. That's because I don't listen to the press. Anyone can find a job and anyone can make a good living at almost any job, if they work hard enough and save.
In my taxation situation from last year, my part-time employer stopped taking out any income tax from my pay checks early in 2009 under the Obama Regime. I asked their payroll department to take out more tax, because I knew it was all a taxation scam by the Federal government through the manipulation of the tax witholding tables, not a real tax cut.
They disagreed. "No, that's the Obama tax cut," they told me, wondering why I was complaining, "For those employees who qualify for it."
"I know it's a bogus tax cut for those making under a certain level, including myself intially. But this is just a part-time job for me and I'm going to owe a lot more taxes at the end of the year."
They thought I was nuts and making too much of a fuss. So I put some money aside and just sent the IRS a nice big check on April 15th. The net effect was even worse than I anticipated, so I had to come up with even more money when I sent in the check. It was a sizable increase in tax owed above the 2008 tax season under the "evil" George W. Bush when I received a refund. Even if I get some of the extra money paid back by another taxation slight of hand, it would still be more money extorted from me as an interest free loan to the new regime.
The lesson was simple. Race had nothing to do with what happened this year, it was all a deliberate ploy to bilk both ansuspecting Obama supporters and penalize evil conservatives like myself as I try to improve my earnings, gain new experience in a field I want to re-enter while increasing my savings and capital formation before striking off on my own.
Of course, I have to admit, I'm a budding running dog imperialist, capitalist exploiter of the working class. I know I have to be punished, but my friends under a certain level of income and those who try to improve their income with part-time work have also been screwed by this Federal tax adjustment. It's another example of liberalism leveling the playing field, and crushing us all. It's also indicative of fewer Obama supporters or former supporters turning out in November and more of us conservativen helping to change America back to liberty and freedom.
Postscript: The first Post Party Summit here in Pittsburgh was great. More on that tomorrow.