Rooting For The Away Team Part II

In the 2008 election, voters weren't really concerned with tax hikes. This is largely because of the irrational, emotional attachment most people found with obama, and because of an historical fact.
The fifteen years between your President Clinton's 1993 tax hike, and obama's cigarette February 2009 tax hike, it was the longest ever time between federal tax hikes.
Even the Bush tax cuts of 2001, (see below) cut people from the rolls, and little did we know what that would wrought. But first the cigarette tax hike.
Most people think it's fine to raise taxes on cigarettes. I don't smoke cigarettes, so I shouldn't care, right?
Consider this: Each year, the number of people who smoke goes down. When you raise the cigarrette tax, the number of people who smoke goes down even faster. Eventually, the amount of money collected by the cigarrete tax goes down. To make up for this "shortfall," they must raise taxes on something else.
When they raise taxes on cigarrettes, it eventually hits everyone else too.

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Back in 1994 Lambeau Field, Gary lit his cigarrette, and smoked proudly, as he spoke to his son about Bart Starr and Eddie Lee Ivory. He even blew smoke into the air, which I, no doubt may have ingested. He finished his cigarrette, and lit another. No one thought anything of it, as he opened yet another Miller High Life, to feed his beer belly.

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When former President Bush succeded in getting his tax cuts passed in 2001, he had no idea what would become of that. In essence, he cut nearly 13 million people from the federal tax rolls. Thirteen million people, who used to pay taxes, now, don't. In fact, many of those people now get much of jackflak's money in the form of a refund. I'm sure Bush never realized how many Democrat voters he was creating by doing that.

I spent my "rebate" on a treadmill, and am proud to say that I have lost 23 pounds since January 1st. In any case, we need more taxpayers, not fewer..

obama has promised to let those Bush tax cuts expire in 2011, which will let Democrats avoid a difficult vote. When this tax cut expires, it will amount to a tax increase on a lot of people. Many of those people will no doubt be obama voters.

The obama budget will boost federal spending more than 25%, and nearly triple the national debt over ten years. This is funny, considering candidate obama promised exactly the opposite. But all politcians lie, right?

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Meanwhile, back in 1994 Lambeau Field, Gary told me that he was for sure fired up about the "Contract With America." Finally, Gary thought, some guys in Washington might do, one thing, that he wanted.

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They did. And when Republicans won a resounding election in 1994, the media called it a "takeover." As if people ran up to the steps of the Capitol with guns in their hands.

Part III Coming Soon!!