Howdju — Statements Related to “Obama plans to make almost half of US citizens pay no income taxes”

Statements Related to Obama plans to make almost half of US citizens pay no income taxes

Steve Buyer's Frontier Fund is waiting to raise $1M to make the fund self-sustainable before granting scholarships (1+/0- justifications)
News networks demand that Fox News be included in White House Press Conference for Pay Czar Ken Feinberg (1+/1- justifications)
Candidate Obama made three core promises to America (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has kept his campaign promises (4+/2- justifications)
President Obama has kept his three core promises (4+/0- justifications)
President Obama passed a recovery act that created millions of jobs, many for teachers, firefighters, and police officers (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama's actions spurred a 73% increase in lending to small businesses, creating new jobs (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama helped hundreds of thousands of Americans keep their homes (2+/0- justifications)
President Obama cut taxes for 95% of working families (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has been working to passing health reform that would significantly bolster job growth by getting health insurance costs under control and outlawing health insurance discrimination (e.g., pre-existing conditions, gender) (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has helped the middle class (6+/1- justifications)
President Obama has closed the executive revolving door, forbidding former administration employees from lobbying when they leave the white house (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has made government more transparent and accountable (5+/0- justifications)
President Obama has improved the United State's relationship with the rest of the world (3+/0- justifications)
President Obama is winding down the war in Iraq (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama is working thoughtfully and carefully to plan the United States' involvement in Afghanistan (1+/0- justifications)
Obama is outpacing Bush II in signing statements (1+/3- justifications)
Obama issued on average one signing statement every 37 days from Jan. 20, 2009 to Jul. 26, 2009 (4+/0- justifications)
The tax systems of nearly every US state is regressive, that is, the poor and the middle class pay significantly more of their incomes in taxes (1+/0- justifications)
The 2009 budget deficit has little to do with Obama's policies (3+/0- justifications)
As presidential candidate, Obama attended the Bilderberg conference (1+/0- justifications)
The US continues to torture under Barack Obama (1+/0- justifications)
75% of all income gains during the Bush administration went to the 1% wealthiest (1+/0- justifications)
The health reform bills passed in the house and senate will help low and middle income people (3+/0- justifications)
Premiums for low and middle income people will be lower (subsidized by government) after health reform (0+/0- justifications)
President Obama has not kept his promise to limit farm subsidies (0+/0- justifications)
President Obama has not kept his promise to end federal grants to strictly religious organizations (1+/0- justifications)
Sarah Palin abandoned the Alaska governorship to make money (3+/0- justifications)
The militia of the United States consists of all male citizens between the ages of 17 and 45 (and any female members of the National Guard) (1+/0- justifications)
David Addington and Alberto Gonzales convinced John Yoo to make up a legal argument that the President could authorize illegal torture (4+/0- justifications)
Senate Republicans interfered with President Obama's appointee nominations in unprecedented ways (1+/0- justifications)
The Obama administration is in greater violation of Geneva than even the Bush-Cheney administration (1+/0- justifications)
Only 12% of americans believe President Obama has decreased taxes (1+/0- justifications)
Only 12% of the US think the Obama administration has lowered taxes despite taxes decreasing for 95% of people (2+/0- justifications)
DEA is busting marijuana growers despite President Obama's promise that the federal government would not pursue those in compliance with state law (1+/0- justifications)
Obama issued five signing statements from Jan. 20, 2009 to Jul. 26, 2009 (0+/0- justifications)
The rate of job loss has decreased since Obama took office (1+/0- justifications)
US unemployment has stopped increasing and has stabilized since Barack Obama became president (1+/0- justifications)
Job loss may have reached its maximum because of job loss saturation regardless of President Obama's administration's actions (0+/0- justifications)
The staff at Wikimedia make on average over $160K/year including benefits (4+/0- justifications)
To qualify as mostly, a quantity must be greater than half (0+/0- justifications)
Pakistan has been more cooperative with the Obama administration than the Bush administration in hunting leaders of Afghan Taliban (1+/0- justifications)
The richest people in the US pay a significiantly smaller percentage of their wealth in taxes (1+/0- justifications)
George W. Bush tried to hide US income inequality (1+/0- justifications)
Almost half of all Jews and Hindus in the US make over $100K/year (1+/0- justifications)
Over one-third of US citizens pay no income taxes (1+/1- justifications)
Obama's tax cuts will decrease taxes for 95% of US citizens (0+/2- justifications)
Obamas tax cuts will decrease taxes for 95% of working US citizens (1+/0- justifications)
Pharmaceutical companies pay doctors to fabricate studies favorable to their drugs (1+/0- justifications)
Most U.S. domestic terrorism since June 2008 has been directly related to Barack Obama's presidency (1+/0- justifications)
Eighteen states in the U.S. have enacted barriers to either make it difficult or impossible for communities to build publicly-owned networks (1+/0- justifications)
The United States cannot lawfully impose an income tax upon citizens (1+/0- justifications)
General Electric, a New York corporation, paid $0 in taxes to the U.S. but had world-wide profits of $10.8 billion (1+/0- justifications)
Free software is safer for companies to use since it doesn't make them rely on a single provider. Rather, they can put multiple service companies in competition when they need help with the software. (0+/0- justifications)
President Obama has an unprecendented number of officials (czars) (2+/0- justifications)
Sarah Palin engages in fearmongering against president Obama (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama is capable of leading the United States military. (1+/0- justifications)
President Obama has taken the harshest stance of any president in prosecuting unauthorized leaks of information by executive employees (1+/0- justifications)
Obama's strategy in Afghanistan has been a failure (1+/0- justifications)
The median U.S. household income decreased by over $2,000 between 1999 and 2008 (2008 dollars) (1+/0- justifications)
The original personal exemption for U.S. income tax was $3K in 1913, equal to $65K in 2009 (1+/0- justifications)
34% of republicans believe Barack Obama is a Muslim (1+/0- justifications)
Only 39% of U.S. citizens believe in Darwin's theory of evolution (1+/0- justifications)
41% of U.S. citizens believe in extra-sensory perception (ESP) (1+/0- justifications)
24% of U.S. residents believe that Barack Obama is Muslim (1+/0- justifications)
Koch-funded organizations engage in smear tactics by producing inaccurate reports that paint the Obama adminstration and the Democratic Party unfavorably, and then recant the accusations after the damage has been done (1+/0- justifications)
Barack Obama has espoused anti-colonialist ideals from his father (1+/0- justifications)
Barack Obama has increased the national debt by $2.7T in 1.5 years in order to recover from the worst economic crisis since the great depression (3+/0- justifications)
President Obama's primary mission for NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is reaching out to Muslim nations and helping them to feel good about themselves (1+/0- justifications)
The Citizens United US Supreme Court case disproportionately favors conservative politics (2+/0- justifications)
Corporate taxes should be abolished and replaced with personal income taxes (3+/0- justifications)
The donation of food hurts communities because it impairs local farmers' ability to make a living (1+/0- justifications)
Only the Board of Directors of a U.S. corporation can make a statement for that corporation (1+/1- justifications)
The common law of agency dictates that one authorized by another to make statements on behalf of the latter does make statements for the latter (0+/0- justifications)
Nearly half of all U.S. private lawyers are solo practitioners (1+/0- justifications)
Half of publicly funded births in the U.S. result from unintended pregnancies (1+/0- justifications)
Post Citizens United, U.S. politicians are unaware of the identities of donors who donate $1M (1+/0- justifications)
Sarah Palin quit the governorship of Alaska to make more money (2+/0- justifications)
The Obama Justice Department used its discretion not to pursue deportation of a foreign man in a same-sex marriage to a U.S. citizen (1+/0- justifications)
Laws that give special privileges to professional journalists are broadening to include citizens acting in a journalistic role (1+/0- justifications)
U.S. federal estate and gift taxes produce 1% of federal revenue (1+/0- justifications)
Half of all software patents are granted (1+/0- justifications)
Tobacco companies stand to greatly profit from tobacco sales. Abortion doctors do not profit greatly, if at all, from the abortions they perform, and were the doctors not to perform abortions, they could easily replace their income by offering other medical procedures (0+/0- justifications)
Groupon overstated its revenue to the SEC by more than half in preparation for its IPO (1+/0- justifications)
Unmanned drones (UAVs) in Yemen have killed several US citizens (1+/0- justifications)
Half of the occupants of the Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti park are not protesters (2+/0- justifications)
Cell phone companies make a lot of money from text messaging fees (1+/0- justifications)
The choice to make public dangerous scientific results relies upon a balance between protecting society from the malicious application of the results made public and informing society so that it could protect itself from the malicious application of the results kept private but appropriated or their natural occurrence (1+/0- justifications)
Biblical old testament law requires that if someone cause a mother to miscarry that the person pay a fine, but does not require that the person be put to death (2+/0- justifications)