Obama appeals to business for support on tax plan
Through phone calls, White House invitations and old-fashioned political flattery, Mr. Obama has dispensed with some of the populist language of the campaign trail to appeal to corporate America’s palpable desire for certainty. In groups and one by one, the president is making a case to business leaders that siding with him will put the nation back on a firm fiscal footing and unleash the economy.
“What’s holding us back right now, ironically, is a lot of stuff that’s going on in this town,” Mr. Obama told the Business Roundtable, a group of corporate leaders, on Wednesday. “And I know that many of you have come down here to try to see, is there a way that we can break through the logjam and go ahead and get things done? And I’m here to tell you that nobody wants to get this done more than me.”
White House officials have been encouraged by what they describe as a more positive reaction than expected. Many chief executives who met with Mr. Obama privately at the White House last week told him they would go along with his proposal to raise taxes on the wealthy. And several have come out publicly for the plan as long as there is also an effort to tame the growth of entitlement spending.
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Smart corporations see the writing on the wall: the “managed decline,” bloated, inefficient, Welfare State Big Government is here to stay.
They are just trying to get a seat at the table. This is not new…big business has done this throughout history. They’ll gladly shell out a couple million to the EPA (for example) in order to gain monopoly-lite positions of favor with the technocrats and central planners.
Remember, monopolies can not exist in the free market. Only with the power of government can they occur.
visions on December 6, 2012 at 7:49 PM
Too late! You know what they say:
Once you go Romney,
You’ll never go black
…or some’n
Ladysmith CulchaVulcha on December 6, 2012 at 7:53 PM
Larger businesses love this. Obama is going to help him destroy competition.
portlandon on December 6, 2012 at 7:53 PM
Collaborators.
Funny how only private monopolies bother the left.
Galt2009 on December 6, 2012 at 7:55 PM
Good luck with that one.
DAT60A3 on December 6, 2012 at 8:15 PM
The Colonel appeals to chickens for support on business plan.
Browncoatone on December 6, 2012 at 8:16 PM
Let’s see the call list.
It will be a very esoteric group of Fortune 500 companies and not the ones everyone thinks.
CorporatePiggy on December 6, 2012 at 8:21 PM
So, big companies are okay with taxing the $#!t out of little companies? Color me shocked.
CycloneCDB on December 6, 2012 at 8:21 PM
He woo’s the big boys, they bribe one another, pat each others backs, go along to get along, and meanwhile all those idiot losers that voted for this pric* don’t even have a clue what a sell out he has been all along..
I have liberal friends that sincerely believe this guy is out to there trying to “do the right thing”….
Strange days indeed…
Tim Zank on December 6, 2012 at 8:21 PM
Hmmm. Put another way: “Siding with me, you get to keep your business and I’ll unleash my boot from your neck. Maybe. Till next time”.
Or something.
Thuglife. It’s what this is.
Key West Reader on December 6, 2012 at 8:21 PM
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In the 30s my granddfather owned four grocery/fruit and vegetable stores and a butcher shop in NYC. Like other merchants in the Depression he joined the NRA and had the Blue Eagle on his window to show his patriotic committment.. The rules for his industry howveer were being written by A&P and IGA and Safeway stores. There was no way my grandfather could compete with the A&P rules written by them and enforced by FDR’s New Deal. He left the NRA before it was ruled unconstitutional and the regulators made him peel the Blue eagle from his window. He was branded as unpatriotic and his business fell like a rock. By ’38 he was down to one store Ironically one of his regular customers was socialist Norman Thomas who never saw the injustice of what had happened. We have Obama joining with very big business and Finance and Labor to the detriment of small businesses. That isn’t socialist. it’s Fascist. and that’s what progressives really are.
xkaydet65 on December 6, 2012 at 8:23 PM
You make a very valid argument..
Tim Zank on December 6, 2012 at 8:28 PM
I don’t think you can use those words put together like that.
The Rogue Tomato on December 6, 2012 at 8:29 PM
Canada looks better every day. At least they like drilling for oil and gas.
beatcanvas on December 6, 2012 at 8:34 PM
I don’t know if you’re serious or not, but I am definitely looking into finding a job in Canada.
The Rogue Tomato on December 6, 2012 at 8:41 PM
The only difference between those three terms is window dressing.
They’re all shorthand for totalitarianism.
CorporatePiggy on December 6, 2012 at 10:11 PM
rogerb on December 7, 2012 at 6:20 AM