{"id":21970,"date":"2014-11-25T12:51:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21970"},"modified":"2014-11-25T12:51:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T17:51:55","slug":"obama-won%e2%80%99t-extend-unilaterial-amnesty-to-tax-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21970\/obama-won%e2%80%99t-extend-unilaterial-amnesty-to-tax-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Won\u2019t Extend Unilaterial Amnesty to Tax Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/blog\/watch-president-obama-fumble-easy-question-precedent \" target=\"_blank\">no one prepped President Barack Obama<\/a> for the obvious question posed by ABC\u2019s George Stephanopolous: \u201cHow do you respond to the argument, a future president comes in and wants to lower taxes. Doesn\u2019t happen. Congress won\u2019t do it; so he says \u2018I\u2019m not going to prosecute those who don\u2019t pay capital gains tax.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After dithering a bit, Obama replied with, \u201cThe vast majority of folks understand that they need to pay taxes, and when we conduct an audit, for example, we are selecting those folks who are most likely to be cheating. We\u2019re not going after millions and millions of people who everybody knows are here and were taking advantage of low wages as they\u2019re mowing lawns or cleaning out bedpans, and looking the other way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephanopolous pressed harder. \u201cSo you don\u2019t think it\u2019d be legitimate for a future president to make that argument?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Without a hint of irony, Obama says, \u201cWith respect to taxes? Absolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And yet the president has no reason in principle for limiting his successors in office from willfully disregarding whatever laws they don\u2019t like. The former constitutional law professor seems to be completely unaware of the precedent he is setting by unilaterally suspending immigration enforcement. If left unrebuked, this action will teach future Oval Office occupants that the rule of law can \u2013 and at times should \u2013 be replaced with the whim of one.<\/p>\n<p>The only saving grace in this interview is that the President of the United States seems genuinely clueless as to the logic of his own order. Such is the state of the chief executive.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/blog\/watch-president-obama-fumble-easy-question-precedent \" target=\"_blank\">Media Research Center<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sounds like no one prepped President Barack Obama for the obvious question posed by ABC\u2019s George Stephanopolous: \u201cHow do you respond to the argument, a future president comes in and wants to lower taxes. Doesn\u2019t happen. Congress won\u2019t do it; so he says \u2018I\u2019m not going to prosecute those who don\u2019t pay capital gains tax.\u2019\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,143,874,981,1447,2594,71],"class_list":["post-21970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-executive-order","tag-immigration","tag-reform","tag-rule-of-law","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21970"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21978,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21970\/revisions\/21978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}