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<blockquote data-quote="Lue C Fur" data-source="post: 821810" data-attributes="member: 25159"><p><strong>Barack Obama: Losing $84 billion big success</strong></p><p> </p><p>Barack Obama has some 'splaining to do about taxpayers' profitable "investment" in General Motors. It turns out the president is imagining things.</p><p>Though Democrats tout the auto bailout as a success, recent reports illustrate the taxpayer cost of the GM auto bailout was substantially larger than the Obama administration and a Congressional Oversight report has owned up to.</p><p>"American taxpayers are now positioned to recover more than my administration invested in GM,” President Obama said, according to a piece in <strong><span style="color: #164a6e">USA Today</span></strong> last November. Steven Rattner, former head of the Treasury's auto task force agreed, telling <strong><span style="color: #164a6e">CNN</span></strong> in November: “Recent progress at GM gives reason for optimism that it may be possible for taxpayers to get every penny back.” </p><p>In fact, <strong><span style="color: #164a6e">Investor's Business Daily</span></strong> reported that even the White House’s Director of the National Economic Council remarked that the Treasury Department Department had a good chance in "recovering most, if not all, of its investment in" GM. </p><p>However, a March 16 <strong><a href="http://cop.senate.gov/documents/cop-031611-report.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="color: #164a6e">Congressional Oversight repor</span></a></strong>t, tells a different story. It estimates taxpayers will be out of $25 billion. Additionally, the report points out that “full repayment will not be possible unless the government is able to sell its remaining shares at a far higher price.” </p><p>That's only the beginning. Both the White House and the Congressional Oversight report omit the fact that during its bankruptcy, GM got a $45 billion tax break, courtesy of the American people.</p><p>GM is driving “away from its U.S.-government-financed restructuring with a final gift in its trunk: a tax break that could be worth as much as $45 billion,” reported <strong><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590642149103202.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #164a6e">The </span></a><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590642149103202.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #164a6e">Wal</span></a><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590642149103202.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #164a6e">l Street Journal</span></a> </strong>last November. </p><p></p><p>Over one year after the promises President Obama and his administration made about the auto bailout, a February piece on <strong><a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/23/report-gm-to-get-14-billion-domestic-tax-break/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #164a6e">AutoBlog</span></a></strong> also confirms that GM will also get a $14 billion dollar domestic tax break:</p><p style="margin-left: 20px">GM will be able to skip its tax tab due to years of massive losses. Companies are typically forgiven a portion of future taxes due to their past losses, but that benefit is typically stripped after an organization goes through bankruptcy.</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p><p>However, the Obama administration and its <span style="color: #164a6e">allies</span> presently continue to celebrate the success of the auto bailout, regardless of the facts. "I don’t think there’s any doubt that this was a success," <span style="color: #164a6e">said</span> (H/T Detroit News) acting assistant secretary at the Treasury Department Tim Massad, who oversees the TARP program at Treasury, to a House panel on Wednesday. </p><p> </p><p>In Obama's world, success mean taxpayers only lost as much as $84 billion.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/mar/31/barack-obama-losing-84-billion-big-success/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/mar/31/barack-obama-losing-84-billion-big-success/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lue C Fur, post: 821810, member: 25159"] [B]Barack Obama: Losing $84 billion big success[/B] Barack Obama has some 'splaining to do about taxpayers' profitable "investment" in General Motors. It turns out the president is imagining things. Though Democrats tout the auto bailout as a success, recent reports illustrate the taxpayer cost of the GM auto bailout was substantially larger than the Obama administration and a Congressional Oversight report has owned up to. "American taxpayers are now positioned to recover more than my administration invested in GM,” President Obama said, according to a piece in [B][COLOR=#164a6e]USA Today[/COLOR][/B] last November. Steven Rattner, former head of the Treasury's auto task force agreed, telling [B][COLOR=#164a6e]CNN[/COLOR][/B] in November: “Recent progress at GM gives reason for optimism that it may be possible for taxpayers to get every penny back.” In fact, [B][COLOR=#164a6e]Investor's Business Daily[/COLOR][/B] reported that even the White House’s Director of the National Economic Council remarked that the Treasury Department Department had a good chance in "recovering most, if not all, of its investment in" GM. However, a March 16 [B][URL="http://cop.senate.gov/documents/cop-031611-report.pdf"][COLOR=#164a6e]Congressional Oversight repor[/COLOR][/URL][/B]t, tells a different story. It estimates taxpayers will be out of $25 billion. Additionally, the report points out that “full repayment will not be possible unless the government is able to sell its remaining shares at a far higher price.” That's only the beginning. Both the White House and the Congressional Oversight report omit the fact that during its bankruptcy, GM got a $45 billion tax break, courtesy of the American people. GM is driving “away from its U.S.-government-financed restructuring with a final gift in its trunk: a tax break that could be worth as much as $45 billion,” reported [B][URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590642149103202.html"][COLOR=#164a6e]The [/COLOR][/URL][URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590642149103202.html"][COLOR=#164a6e]Wal[/COLOR][/URL][URL="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704462704575590642149103202.html"][COLOR=#164a6e]l Street Journal[/COLOR][/URL] [/B]last November. Over one year after the promises President Obama and his administration made about the auto bailout, a February piece on [B][URL="http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/23/report-gm-to-get-14-billion-domestic-tax-break/"][COLOR=#164a6e]AutoBlog[/COLOR][/URL][/B] also confirms that GM will also get a $14 billion dollar domestic tax break: [INDENT]GM will be able to skip its tax tab due to years of massive losses. Companies are typically forgiven a portion of future taxes due to their past losses, but that benefit is typically stripped after an organization goes through bankruptcy. [/INDENT] However, the Obama administration and its [COLOR=#164a6e]allies[/COLOR] presently continue to celebrate the success of the auto bailout, regardless of the facts. "I don’t think there’s any doubt that this was a success," [COLOR=#164a6e]said[/COLOR] (H/T Detroit News) acting assistant secretary at the Treasury Department Tim Massad, who oversees the TARP program at Treasury, to a House panel on Wednesday. In Obama's world, success mean taxpayers only lost as much as $84 billion. [URL]http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/mar/31/barack-obama-losing-84-billion-big-success/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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