President Obama came into office on promises of raising taxes, but only on those making more than $250,000 a year. Again and again he promised that there would be no tax increases on middle and working class families. Yet there are a myriad of new taxes set to hit Americans in early 2001: many of which will hit middle and working class families as hard as they’ll hit those above Obama’s $250,000 threshold.

While conservative talk radio personalities are calling Obama out on this egregious reversal of a central campaign promise, it’s refreshing to see less political, Hollywood personalities raising their voices over these taxes, and other the President has already put into effect, as well. Through such voices, it’s becoming readily apparent that Obama’s taxes are impacting Americans from all socio-economic classes as I type.
One such Hollywood personality is Snooki, of “Jersey Shore” fame, who has been very vocal about the 10% tax Obama conveniently tucked into the massive healthcare overhaul he signed into law earlier this year. During Jersey Shore’s season two premiere, Snooki said: “I don’t go tanning anymore because Obama put a 10 percent tax on tanning.” How refreshing to finally see someone who won’t mince works, and who just comes out and says Obama did it.
That’s right: Obama did it.
For the record, Snooki is the first to admit that she doesn’t “really know a lot about politics.” Therefore, her criticism of the tanning tax is not the outworking of Republican vs. Democrat tendencies, but rather is based on the simple fact that she believes it’s ridiculous that Obama hid a 10% tax on tanning bed visits in the healthcare legislation.
What makes all this even better is that Obama hates to be called out. (Which is why he’s always using cabinet members, Senators, members of Congress, or one of a gazillion “czars” to do his dirty work, so that there’s always someone he can’t point his finger toward if the public gets wise.) And this explains why he took time out in his recent appearance on “The View” to say he doesn’t even know who Snooki is. (The problem with this claim is that Obama mentioned Snooki by name during the White House Correspondents’ dinner on May 2, 2010.)
This is just how I remember the playground bully acting at the elementary school I attended as a kid. When my friend Brian finally called his bluff and word spread through the classrooms that the bully might not be as tough as he acted, the bully only laughed nervously said: “I don’t even know who Brian is.” But we knew he was lying at that point, because the bully had been to Brian’s house for basketball.
Obama’s lying too. And as with the bully on that playground so many years ago, Obama’s hold on us is quickly vanishing.
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