I sat on my couch and argued with a friend not 6 weeks ago whether an annual income of 250k should qualify someone as “the rich” like Senator Obama was saying on TV.
Now less than a week before the election, I’m watching his infomercial and his tax plan had suddenly shifted to define the rich as only $200,000 a year income.
Wow, that’s a 20% decrease in jusrt a few short weeks. Is that because he’s realized that unless he raises taxes on those people making from $200k – $250k is suddenly needed for some reason? Does he think we won’t NOTICE the different stance?
Even more amazing, yesterday, VP candidate Joe Biden told a Scranton, Pa., TV station yesterday that Obama’s tax break “should go to middle class people – people making under $150,000 a year. (according to Democracy Forum)
I find this shift in position amazing – not that it shifted, because I think everyone KNEW he’d be raising taxes more than he claimed, but that he’s chosen to verbalize it now, and with no explanation.
Mark my words, if McCain wins, it will be partially because of this radical (and needless) redefinition of what makes someone “rich”.
Why didn’t he just lie to us and raise taxes anyway like every other candidate does? My theory is that he’salready thinking about re-election in 2012, and doesn’t want to have the “read my lips – no new taxes” achilles heel, so by changing his position now, he can say he broke no promises.