Obama Plans Fresh Round of Divide and Conquer

President Barack Obama can unite the country just as long as he can divide it. The president will propose a one-year extension of current tax cuts for families earning less than $250,000 today, if Congress will simply allow him to increase income taxes on people earning above that arbitrary annual income amount. It is unlikely the president will explain that nearly 50% of all households pay ZERO federal income taxes.
With horrible more jobs numbers late last week and the U.S. economy taking on water, it appears this strategy is the latest political effort by the president’s and his advisers to do anything and everything that helps stop America from talking about the overall direction the nation is headed. It is doubtful the president will try to justify his killing of hundreds of thousands of jobs associated with the Keystone XL pipeline project during these upcoming events.

Instead, a series of cynical battleground-state events are on tap for this week where the president is expected to try to divide the nation's voters based on their income.
Of course, the president knows his divisive proposal will be dead on arrival on Capitol Hill. But Obama isn’t seeking a growth strategy that will jump start the economy as much as he is an excuse to blame Congress for the terrible economic news that has decimated people’s views of the nation’s prospects.
For his part, Mitt Romney wants to extend current tax rates for families of all incomes. And oddly, it was just eighteen months ago that the president also agreed to extend the current tax rates for all taxpayers. As it is, all Americans face massive tax increases at the end of the year.

Many Democrats including Sen. Charles Schumer of New York and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California elected officials in states with high income rates are on the record for keeping rates the same for families earning up to $1 million a year. It would seem that even Democrats have trouble defining how government should use its taxing powers to make life "fair."

Obama Plans Fresh Round of Divide and Conquer