The only way to keep track of the media is to have your own copy. Good thing you did.

Has anybody seen a copy of the proposed Obama budget that Reuters worked from?

Reuters bumped it to them: Backdoor taxes to hit middle class.

It’s kind of strange. Passive-Aggressive behavior on the part of Reuters towards Gibbs and the White House?

Hey, Gibbs and Obama can spin it any way they want but the fact is that the Bush Tax Cuts will expire at the end of this year.

Everyone, including low and middle income earners got significant tax relief from the Bush policies.

They can say they are going to reinstate some of those cuts that were particularly popular but until those policies are enacted by Congress, Reuters and the rest of us will have to assume they are going away, no?

Investor’s business Daily also ran the story.

http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/ArticlePrint.aspx?id=519783

… that increasing taxes on citizens now, when the economy is on such precarious, shifting ground, will twist the knife and increase the bleeding.

It is becoming painfully obvious that this is their goal. They must be stopped. The situation is becoming dire. I believe the Socialists intend to bring the world’s engine of capitalism to its knees, and force the American people to come crawling to government for sustenance.

If this article going missing as it did was the result of Reuters kowtowing to its masters in the Obama administration, the free press is indeed in trouble.

It probably needed to be sent over to the Ministry of Truth for ‘correction’.

ADVISORY: Backdoor taxes story

The Feb 1 story headlined “Backdoor taxes to hit middle class” is wrong and has been withdrawn. The story said lower-income families will pay more under tax provisions scheduled to expire Dec 31. The Obama administration’s budget calls for the extension of those tax provisions for households earning less than $250,000. There will be no substitute story.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100202/us_nm/us_budget_backdoortaxes_advisory

Well, you skipped over the Alternative Minimum tax, as most people do. It is inching down on the middle class, since the limits set in 1968 were never indexed for inflation. I guess it’s the reverse: The American Public has been inflating its way into AltMin’s reaches.

Essentially, Alt-Min negates the benefits of many people’s home interest deduction and state tax deduction. For those of you who wanted a flat tax: Here it is, it’s called Alt-Min. And it is starting to hit the middle class directly.

and publish the results. It’s still a no-win.

If the government said cut it, you left a white gap in the paper (until they banned the white gaps because they were becoming laughably common).

Only Reuters is a willing collaborator.

His own projections according to the Investor’s article show he’ll still be deficit spending by three quarters of a trillian dollars in 2015… What happened to having a budget surplus… ya know… the kind of thing that would *decrease* the deficit.

Dear Mr. President,

You’re an idiot.

Sincerely,

Anyone capable of basic arithmetic

stood up to the Administration, but Obama broke his tax pledge long ago.

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Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress have already increased tobacco taxes – which disproportionately hit the poor – to pay for extending health coverage to 4 million children in working low-income families.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31806096/

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I think if you get into the way [cap and trade] was written, it’s a huge tax and there’s no sense calling it anything else. I mean, it is a tax. So it — and it’s a fairly regressive tax

-WARREN BUFFETT

http://www.abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/Politics/story?id=7948866&page=1

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and Obamacare has been a middle class tax from the get-go:

…But what is pretty obvious is that there will be millions of middle-class Americans who won’t qualify for subsidies, yet will be forced to either buy insurance or pay a fine. While people focus on the penalty aspect of it, if you’re making $45,000 a year and the government begins forcing you to spend thousands of dollars each year for a product, that’s a lot of money, and it’s undeniably a tax on the middle-class.

http://spectator.org/blog/2009/08/03/why-health-insurance-mandates

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And what about the biggest back-door tax of all, inflation caused by printing trillions of new dollars? This hits the POOR disproportionately because they are less able to defend against it.

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“I pledge that under my plan, no one making less than $250,000 a year will see any type of tax increase,” he said. “Not income tax, not capital gains taxes, not ANY kind of tax.”

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/2008091 /obama_ad_080912/20080912/?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory

I first read the article that was linked on Drudge, Later, coming back to Drudge, I saw the link to the original article and the link to the “retraction”, which hadn’t been retracted yet.

So I saved a copy as a “web page archive”.

Gotta love the Internet!!

or can I complain and get any unflatering story I don’t like yanked from their feeds?

I mean…come on…how long before we have Pravda and a Department of what’s acceptable news as an arm of the US Justice department writing news stories for us?

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

the entire article without running afoul of the legal authorities? Just wondering…