does a serious attempt to restructure things he got ostracized and criticized. one of the candidates is with us, rick santorum. why are you here on this beautiful day? after this past week, and hearing the president talk about how he s going to solve the decifit problem by increasing taxes, not dealing with the huge decifits by controlling the explosive growth of government, it s very appropriate here on tax day to get people excited about fighting the tax war, about government taking more of our money, taking more of our freedom away and that s what taxes are, taking your economic freedom away to provide for you and your family and people in your community and those whom you love, so this is a fight, a fight worth raging and there s no better state than new hampshire, which is the live free or die state, the low income tax state to fight that battle. and the first with a primary in place. that s the message here. the message they ll be hearing in an hour when the rally starts.
they ve taken on new meanings in this tax war we re seeing. to a certain extent, it depends on whom you ask, if you look at the dictionardictionary, it s ie material wealth. for years, president obama has been clear about what it means to him. any individual making over $200,000 a year or any house hold making over $250,000 a year is what the president says is wealthy enough to bear the burden of more taxes. whom does that affect? 2% of americans make that much money. 98% of us don t fit the president s definition of wealthy. the median house hold income in the u.s. in 2009 was $49,777. a family of four earning less than $22,000 was considered to be below the poverty level. the poverty rate was 14.3%, more
especially a presidential year. i think it s not just about the upper earners. what about the middle class tax cuts? peter orszag, the president s budget director is the one who raised his eyebrows when he left saying we can t afford any of these, not the middle class tax cuts, not the tax cuts for the upper earners, not if you want to be serious about the debt. by 2012, we ll come to a period where the president will deal with the debt situation with republicans or not. mike, do you remember 1984. walter mondale. i promise to raise your taxes, and it was as if that horn from the flintstones. wa-wa-wa. they didn t do it well in 84. they re not going to promise to raise taxes in 2012. they lost this debate, they lost the tax war. for the boys and girls out there in the audience, we re describing a moment at the 1984
especially a presidential year. i think it s not just about the upper earners. what about the middle class tax cuts. peter orszag, the president s budget director is the one who raised his eyebrows when he left saying we can t afford any of these, not the middle class tax cuts, not the tax cuts for the upper earners, not if you want to be serious about the debt. by 2012, we ll come to a period where the president will deal with the debt situation with republicans or not. mike, do you remember 1984. walter mondale. i promise to raise your taxes, and it was as if that horn from the flintstones. they didn t do it well in 84. they re not going to promise to raise taxes in 2012. they lost this debate, they lost the tax war. for the boys and girls out there in the audience, we re describing a ploemt at the 1984 democratic convention in san francisco where the then vice president, former vice president
chinese government as his ambassador to china. a good cop, bad cop. you can bet he is listening when the criticism is revenge for something the ceo said. trump said it isn t. the washington post is reporting he is taking more shots today while talking to donors. you can bet he is listening when paul ryan rejected the idea of a tax war with companies that lead the united states. the big question is when trump pushes the envelope, who or how do others push back. we have brad todd from moveon.org and senior politics. it is interesting to watch him on these things. i could have thrown the press in there. others are trying to let him establish boundaries to a pound.