Post fact checks Obama’s “biggest tax cut” claim

I’ve been complaining for months in our Facebook fan page about the Washington Post fact checking Republican candidates without ever having to do that on the Democrat candidate in 2012. Well, shut my mouth, they did it today on his claim the other day about his administration’s “biggest middle class tax cut in history“.

First they bothered to call the White House to get a naseline for measuring the “biggest” and it seems their idea of “the biggest” is different from what you or I might call the biggest;

“The point the president was making that is there is not a tax cut that has been enjoyed by such a broad section of the population,” an administration official said, pointing to a report that said that 95 percent of working families received some kind of tax cut under the Making Work Pay provision in his stimulus bill.

Huh?

In other words, this isn’t about the size of the tax cut, but about the fact that every working family, except those making more than $190,000, received as much as $800 in tax cuts.

Funny, but when I think of “biggest tax cut” I think of it terms of how it helps me and my family, not how many other people are getting a paltry sum more in their checks. But, that’s not how the White House sees it. Remember that’s how he justified the tax hikes that have occurred since – because we already had this huge tax cut that should help us pay for the shit he levied on us.

The Post goes on to admit that the Bush tax cuts benefited the middle class more than the Obama tax slice;

the income tax provisions of George W. Bush tax cuts are more than twice as large as Obama’s tax cut over the same three-year time span. (Yes, a large portion of Bush’s tax cut went to the wealthy, but it also benefited the working poor. We still don’t know what Obama means by “middle class,” since his definition also seems to include the working poor.)

That must’ve really hurt them to admit that Bush tax cut were more humane than Obama’s $15/week. I wonder if they’ll admit that Bush’s tax cuts actually gave the working poor no tax bill at the end of the year.

It’s funny that when the media actually do their job, they can usually find their working class heroes don’t quite measure up to their expectations.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Taxes