Did Obama Forget Those Private Jet Tax Breaks He Just Denounced Were Created By His Own Stimulus Plan?
**Written by Doug Powers
Before signing the stimulus bill (aka “Porkulus”) in February of 2009, White House Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton said that, even though the president probably hadn’t read the entire 1,079 bill cover-to-cover, he knew it was okay to sign because he had “a team of the best legislative and economic experts in the country who advised him.”
Apparently Obama didn’t check with them before letting loose on private jet tax breaks at today’s press conference.
From the Heritage Foundation:
The chief economic culprit of President Obama’s Wednesday press conference was undoubtedly “corporate jets.” He mentioned them on at least six occasions, each time offering their owners as an example of a group that should be paying more in taxes.
“I think it’s only fair to ask an oil company or a corporate jet owner that has done so well,” the president stated at one point, “to give up that tax break that no other business enjoys.”
But the corporate jet tax break to which Obama was referring – called “accelerated depreciation,” and a popular Democratic foil of late – was created by his own stimulus package.
More background on that here.
“The stimulus is working as intended! Well, except for that part… and that part… and…”
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Checks!? Obama don’t need no stinkin’ checks!
The man can be your best bud yesterday and stab you in the back today if it suits him and advances his adgenda. All expendable and under-the-bus-throwing worthy.
Yeah… and do you know what flight departments will likely do when their expenses increase sufficiently?
Furlough and/or fire people.
Hey Obama…. is that a job created or saved?
Well.. at least Obama’s golf caddy will have a steady job.
Chris Wallace or George Stephanopoulos asking Obama in an interviw about attacking a provision of his own stimulus plan in 8, 7, 6, 5, …../sarc
Chris Wallace: “Mr. President, given your inability to remember whether the Medal of Honor recipients you have decorated are alive or dead, your misstatements on Obamacare, your inability to remember there are 50 states, and now this statement on tax breaks for corporate jets, …….Mr. President do you have Alzhiemers?”
Lucky for Barry he is not a white conservative female in the GOP.
But the caddy doubles as TOTUS, right, and only gets that “small” pittance of 100K+ for “services rendered.”
My big question:
Is it still cool to be an Obama supporter?
He keeps on making the hole deeper and deeper and I don’t mean for just for himself this time. We are right there in that hole too.
2012 – House, Senate, President!
Will the TOTUS go under the bus as a result?
“Did Obama Forget Those Private Jet Tax Breaks He Just Denounced Were Created By His Own Stimulus Plan?”
No.
Should anyone expect that his words should be consistent with his deeds?
No.
He seems to lie more often than speak truthfully. When it comes to campaigning, the only thing he knows is how to talk about and create class warfare.
No….King Obama giveth and King Obama taketh away….
Seriously though when are these CEO’s and the GOP going to take Obama to task for all the BS that he and his party spews on a daily basis. Sure it may be hard to get the press to play along, so string the press along with some phony story that they are considering caving on the tax cuts and let them know that they will be giving a live press briefing….then play bait and switch and explain directly to the American people why Obama is wrong and what will really happen if he gets his way.
I’m sure when zero gets out of office and is offered a billion dollar book deal, he will do two things. First he will decline all but one million because “he’s already made enough money” and secondly, he will forego the jets and limosines and will instead ride a bicycle around the country to sell his book.
Never let facts stand in the way of a good story.
He also resurrected having to fund the “infrastructure” jobs again, those “shovel ready” jobs that never materialized in the first two porkulus bills.
But he gets high grades on presentation for knowing exactly when to pivot his head away from the left teleprompter to the right without missing a beat. Very dramatic. Gives him gravitas just like the “Does it really take two to tango?” guy in those Geico commercials.
Time to resurect the Mom Jeans Bicycle ride picture?
It’s not like there wasn’t a ‘precedent’ from which to learn!
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/02/07/business/falling-tax-would-lift-all-yachts.html
Obama press conference – false choices and demagoguery
This was typical throughout the press conference. He’s the only reasonable one, the only one who cares about people, the only one trying hard to reach a “balanced” debt deal, and so on and so on, the facts be damned. Of course, if it seems to some that he’s been detached, it’s only because he’s been so busy working on the Taliban, and bin Laden, and the Greece crisis.
He had the audacity to say with a straight face that his administration is trying to remove burdensome regulations, when in fact Obamacare and Dodd-Frank alone impose vast regulations (most of which have not been written yet, which freezes business investment) on virtually every area of the economy.
Not only does he not get it, he is ideologically incapable of getting it. He views the economy as a zero sum game, a point I have made before.
This reminds me of the failed luxury tax on yachts years ago, which devasted the shipbuilding industry in Rhode Island leading to substantial layoffs; the choice was not between yacht owners and children, but between job creating industries or not.
Do not underestimate the ability of this man to appeal to our worst jealousies and envies, while telling us he is doing the opposite with a smile on his face.
http://legalinsurrection.com/2011/06/obama-press-conference-false-choices-and-demagoguery/
He believes his own BS, so no need to fact check. Just ask that MOH soldier bho raised from the dead.
“Barack”, from the Swahili, “bara”, to lie (“-ck” being the suffix for the present participle).
“Obama” is a local colloquial term for a gnu’s butt.
Though I am not a Newt fan he laid it out very well what the GOP should be saying:
bho just wants those on the dole knowing that he is focused like a laser on soaking the rich.
You took the words right out of my typing fingers. I was just thinking about when “Blow Job Bill” passed a tax on yachts. The result was, millionairs just bought cheaper, foreign-made yachts instead. Thus, thousands of American boat-builders lost their jobs.
HAHAHAHAHA!!! BWAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
That’s a goodun! Wanna hear another one?
Do you know how Obummer tests a microphone? “Testing, one trillion, two trillion, three trillion.”
Another one. Remember when Obummers limo got high-centered in Ireland? Know how they got it loose? They just took his ego out of the trunk.
The Sock Puppetism of the week:
“Obama Calls People Earning $250,000 a Year ‘Jet Owners’”
Will someone with some balls please tell this nimrod to STFU.
Green eyed Lady said:
Right, that sailed on the boat John F’n KERRY built! Well, ‘he’ didn’t build per se`. After the collapse of America’s Yacht bldg. ind. all that stuff got offshored!
I recall at the time, it wasn’t just the boatbuilders themselves, it was the upholsters, the DESIGN firms, the casting and plating shops, the sail makers.
They ALL bit the big one. You’d think they’d learn?
tre said:
Yep yes Sir! And America’s maritime industry hasn’t recovered since. One of my good Navy buddies went on to be a Gulfstream Certified Aircraft Mechanic. Knew that airframe inside-out.
He used to post at TheHousingBubbleBlog as “GS-fixer”. ( Gulfstream-fixer ) After Bammie got a hold of his industry, he now posts as X-GS-fixer. Hysterical huh?
Well remember he still believes that SUV’s only get 8 mpg. Nothing he says is ever anchored in reality.
bho got his face on the tube today to slam almost every business in America. bho is seeing to it that the r’s get blamed for not raising taxes and not raising the debt ceiling. bho’s bottom line, I will do as I dang well please or you in dc or citizens can take a hike! I have a suggestion for the r’s in dc, DO, not leave dc for the holiday, bho will make major recess gosh horrible people to do his bidding. bho goes around the dc bunch and courts to getter done! I don’t think I have said it today, but I detest bho!
L
And how about Teh Won complaining about how Congress is always on vacation? Exactly how out of touch is this guy?
Someone is not doing his homework,unlike his daughters.
Perhaps TOTUS or the autopen will step up and take the responsibilitues while he golfs.
What a buffoon.
King Putt doesn’t read these bills. He just signs them. What would make anybody think he knew these tax breaks were in the Porkulus bill?
Yes, sir…I watched the news conference, since they are so rare, (insert.. What if Bush never had news conferences..here)
I have a pounding headache!
I look forward to this man going to prison one day. Are he and his cohorts any less of a tyranny than King George?
Thanks Doug for another great example of Obama’s hypocrisy. However, don’t assume he does it out of ignorance. There is a pattern emerging that indicates these events are part of a plan. They are deliberately creating straw men that they can attack later to help them get re-elected. Giving tax breaks to rich jet owners is just one of many events they plan to blame on Republicans.
Before Project Gun Runner was revealed, Obama blamed the gun violence in Mexico on our loose gun laws, which he claimed allows guns to be too easily exported across the border. We weren’t supposed to find out that it was his administration behind the gun-running into Mexico. It was planned to point the finger of blame on gun loving Republicans and bring about more gun control.
The Democrats have not proposed a budget in two years. That’s not an oversight. It allows them to blame future spending cuts entirely on Republicans who are the only grown-ups in the room with the courage to propose them.
Those are just two examples, but there are many more. They reveal a deliberate pattern on the part of Obama and the Democrats to deceive the public into voting them back into office. Hopefully, they will all backfire on them just like project Gun Runner is beginning to do.
Oh man! LOL. King Putt. Why didn’t I think of that? Dovetails with my comment above.
I suspect he stays drunk until they need to trot him out and let him stagger through a speech. He has no sense of conscience or irony.
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fify
King Putt: This guy?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNFBbeDSGEY
That reminds me, the Blooming Nut in NY is out with a gun control scare ad…
“Hurry, we must have gun control before the terrorists buy guns to attack us with.”… or something.
Don’t like or trust that dude.
Somewhere a Secret Service agent is shacking his head and saying:
Because I’m more brillianter than you.
I must admit, I didn’t think of it either. I saw it on another blog a few days ago. It cost me a keyboard due to projectile coffee spewing. But I did think of “The Boy Swing”.
Remember, D’Ohbama says exactly the opposite of what he does:
From the ObamaSpeak Translation Dictionary:
“My Hollywood friends, Chicago cronies and Wall Street fat cats love the tax break on corporate jets we snuck in on the Porkulus. If you peons really think they’re are going to give that up, you’re morons as well as peons.”
Teh Wun knew Mrs. Malkin was on vacation so he thought he could get away with his little Mr. Waggy McWaggy finger routine?
I almost feel for this guy? He figures he’s safe b/c they don’t translate American into English over there.
Is that “feel” or “fell?”
Isn’t is wonderful that bho gets to bring the two daughters into the mix to make his point, but NO way anyone can even mention their name? Everytime bho needs to make a ‘parent’ point he drags the daughters out. One has to wonder, what are the first daughters getting schooled by mom and dad? Me thinks, the poor first daughters are a basket case. L
Although most Americans don’t get it, government DOES NOT create jobs. Nor can it. Companies don’t create jobs either.
ONLY demand creates jobs.
Government can do only one of two things – they can destroy jobs or they can make sure there is a level playing field.
It really is sad that supposedly highly educated individuals do not comprehend this.
No use applying for a job at GAS in the near future. Everyone might want to consider dumping their General Dynamic stocks too since they own GAS.
I want to share a comment I saw this morning at another site.
“i think my first comment had too many links? i had like four backing up these stories. they can be found on politico, carrying his dead weight, and michelle malkin, where they don’t carry his dead weight, but more like poke his body with sticks. ” khemo5
I noticed that too.
He compares a 10 year old getting her homework done (one that goes to an elite private school that can have access to a fleet of tutors paid for at taxpayer expense), to a multi-trillion dollar budget concerning the governing of 300 million people.
Freaking insulting, as well as petulant.
I would add nor should it. Government has it’s role in a limited way, to keep the playing field level (as you noted) not to unbalance it in favor of one group over another.
Hang said:
Lol! Not likely. MM will rip Him a new one the minute she gets back. Probably teeing him up as we speak.
Bammie has gotten so out of control this is like watching the manager take that walk out to the mound. He’s getting pounded and beaning batters begging to be taken out.
I think he wants out. He is now openly signaling that he’s in over his head. I suspect we’ll get ‘leaks’ from his inner circle any week now. Seriously.
Teh Won would not get the point of this article. It meets his “fairness economics” standards, standards that defy well-founded logic, science, math and religious principles.
Southpaw said:
As he looked over to the dugout..?
Could switching to GEICO really save you 15% or more on car insurance?
Does a community organizer make a baaaaddd president?
Anyone catch the Sock Puppet saying one of his daughters was 13 when in reality she is only 12. Now how can that be, the mighty Sock Puppet with the towering intellect actually does not know his kids age? Like the 57 states as well? And the ATM’s took jobs away and……………..
Not even the team or the manager supports him now.
He’s gonna be left out there ’till he’s demoted to the minors.
Depreciation is just a way for the government to tax business owners on money they’ve already spent on a legitimate business expense. Calling it a subsidy is bullshit.
That’s an insult to the minors….
It never was among the sane.
It was just a lame line to try to get liberal ladies in the sack.
Even the bat boy just gave him the finger.
Blaming Bush in 5….4….3…
It’s Bushs’ fault he doesn’t know his daughters age.
No need to countdown…the blaming never stopped.
I’m sooooo glad I had already finished my Dr Pepper, or you’d owe me a keyboard!
On June 29th, 2011 at 6:21 pm, Marshall_Will said:
Like! That video editing lines up very well with the lyrics. Now, we just need a parody version for the current King Putt… Something akin to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCOz-ShZwTs
M_W #47,
What was it, 2 weeks ago or so, King Putt said his family was okay with him not running for a 2nd term…or words to that effect ?
I think that was the “leak” or “trial balloon” !
Oh this is too funny…
But it is perfectly ok for him to take a vacation….
Is this true? The age bho got wrong on this kid? If so, that says alot for all the fuzzy math coming out of bho and team’s seeing to it things are going ok under his team. Sure happy my dad knew who I was and what age I was.
L
Obama giveth. Obama taketh away. I’m sure he’d be surprised to learn he gaveth in the first place. Class warfare is so much more to his liking.
Correct. Government makes the conditions for job growth possible through reasonable taxation and regulation, allowing businesses the posiblity to hire and operate profitably here in the USA.
Unreasonable taxation and regulation forces business to reduce the workforce, scale back operations, move overseas to remain profitable, or simply cease to exist.
Barack Obama: Did somebody say leak…you know you should make sure that your tires stay properly inflated. Let me be clear if you take care of that leak and maintain proper tire inflation we will never have any need to drill for oil!
I know I have heard that somewhere before…Oh yeah, I learned that in my High Schol Economics class….
Here is a perfect example of what Obama wants to see in the future with his class warfare.
FIFY. Obama will always be blaming someone.
Obama evidently missed that course….which would be confirmed if his school transcripts were made public.
Is this about that raffle for winning a dinner with BHO?
O’s golf caddy might be hit with a pay cut unless he is a SEIU member.
I think Mr. Prez bounces back and forth between this world and a parallel universe. Therefore he forgets where he is and voila this is what happens.
With his lackeys in the Lazy Main Stream Media, O’ evidently has no concern for being called out on his lies. Anything and everything is fair game for him because it is all about the campaign. Standing behind him is a multitude of Obama Kool-Aid drinking Democrats who have no care about the lies he spews and will vote for him irregardless.
I think it’s only fair to ask Obama, Congress, the Senate and every other branch of government to stop spending money like drunken sailors. Corporate jet tax breaks didn’t cause the deficit or the recession. Out of control, nanny-state government spending did.
Obama’s sounding a lot like Prince John just before Runnymede…
*King* John. Richard was long dead by Runnymede. My bad.
On June 29th, 2011 at 7:49 pm, Hiraghm said:
LMAO….
Good one. I only wish they would run that ad. I might go buy a new car just so I could insure it with them.
Likely true. But don’t say that too loud or the SEIU thugs will be canvassing golf courses looking to “pursuade” those caddies to sign up.
Someone may have already said something along these lines because I didn’t read all the comments but every day that goes by I’m more worried that we will never get out of this mess.
I can’t believe there are people that will still vote for this man and I’m losing hope. Between Obama, the press, and the large amount of Americans stuck on stupid, I just don’t think we’re turning it around. For heaven’s sake, half the Republican party seems to be more help to Obama than to this great country they’re supposed to be fixing.
Someone, please, give me a REAL reason to hold out hope!
Who’s a Flake??
http://www.patriotactionnetwork.com/video/video/show?id=2600775%3AVideo%3A4493305&xgs=1&xg_source=msg_share_video
I would like to pile on but I watched him this morning (for as long as I could stand his lying insulting bs.) I don’t think he was talking about the tax break for corporate jets. He was talking about the jet owners as being too rich because they could afford a private jet.
Just more class warfare thuggery from the guy that says we should be civil and have appropriate discourse about issues.
Still makes me sick to think back on all the attacks he made this morning. He is a thug of the highest order but tries to come off as smart and understanding.
Uh, and now to the the questions from reporters I hand picked prior to this press conference. (and you better not cross me!)
Ain’t that an understatement? Unions will vote for him to keep their government backing going so they can retire at age 50 with 100k a year pensions.
Blacks will vote for him because he is black. (well partly black) Imagine that, basing your opinion on the color of someones skin.
Illegal immigrants will vote for him because he supports their illegal activity, including the act of voting.
Poor people will vote for him because he promises to redistribute wealth to them. Buying votes.
And there are plenty of others that will vote for him because they buy the LSM b.s about the 2 parties.
Most of these idiots have no recognition of how much his policies hurt them. They kill jobs so these people have no job prospects but get some gubmint handouts. They buy into the notion that rich people have too much money and should pay more taxes. They don’t realize that those extra taxes are pushed down to the consumer of the goods, not to mention the cut the government takes when they redistribute it. A dollar in tax becomes 30 cents when redistributed. They don’t make the connection.
MEMO TO GINA: There is good reason to hope. Just take a good look at the election in November 2010. Besides the great wins on the federal level states across the country elected conservative legislatures and governors. Get active… I belong to two “Tea Parties” and contribute regularly to three other organizations such as “Freedom Works”. Hold on Gina until November 2012 and I am sure you will feel much relieved.
Jerry USMC (Ret)
T-Bone: I said a reason TO hold out hope, not give up hope! LOL
Air Force One for me, shoe leather for thee.
Would that be a jockstrap with Icy Hot in it?
Sad but true. If Saul Alinsky were alive today he would be quite proud of his understudy, The Mighty and Historic King Putt.
I wouldn’t have sex with a liberal lady even if I had carpal tunnel in both hands.
Define liberal
I just hope all those people with corporate jets remember that he’s trying to make the electorate hate them when he goes around asking for donations.
Last time I checked corporations own corporate jets, not rich people. They are company assets.
The media, including Fox is too stupid to grasp the concept.
When is the first reproter going to have the stones to ask The Dear Leader if he thinks its fair that GE made $16 billion and paid ZERO taxes.
crickets chirpping……
The chutzpah of this man is staggering. He rails against corporate excess such as corporate jets, while he buys government limousines and military G5′s so his posse can live like Trump on “gubmint wages.” Oh, I forgot, those wages were increased beyond reason with the advent of the czar posse and Michelles “Assistants”.
To Gina and all doubting Thomas’: China embraced 50 years of communism, where they couldn’t feed themselves. N. Korea is in the same boat now. But China decided in 1995 that they HAD TO embrace capitalism at least in economic practice. A mere 15 years later, they are the world’s economic engine. We used to be that engine before we decided that our sick, lame, and lazy needed a hammock to live in for the rest of their lives. China has no SS. China has no Medicare. China has no Medicaid. China has no EPA. China has no OSHA. China has a very low tax rate. Sounds like the U.S. during it’s manufacturing heyday, doesn’t it? We can become the world’s economic leader again if we quit funding all the world’s problems, quit regulating our businesses into bankruptcy or relocation, quit taxing our businesses into bankruptcy or relocation, and quit allowing a parasitic legal system suing businesses into bankruptcy or relocation.
We won’t be able to afford shoes.