Fuck the rich productive! President Obama’s most recent budget request would reduce borrowing by $1.1 trillion over the next decade compared with current law — almost entirely through higher taxes on the rich, large estates and smokers, congressional budget analysts said Friday. In addition to raising nearly $1 trillion in new taxes, the president’s blueprint would also cut spending modestly, according to the analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
friday news dump
April 29, 2012
Obama funds Palestinians, gives middle finger to Congress [Darleen Click]
You may recall that Obama has expressed how he’d like to work around Congress. So what if Congress froze the $192 million “aid” package to the Palestinian Authority? Obama doesn’t let a little thing like that stand in His way. Friday night news dump: President Obama has decided to provide $192 million to the Palestinian Authority despite Congress’s freeze on PA funding after its president, Mahmoud Abbas, attempted to declare