Why do people persist in telling outright lies, over and over?

Question

For instance, the lies about how Obama will raise all taxes by huge amounts... It is not true at all.

ADDED FOR JULIE H: your tax information is WRONG.

People making less than 112,000/yr will pay less in taxes than now and less than in McCains plans. Those making 112k to about 600k / yr will still save some or break even. ONLY people making OVER 600K/yr will pay more in taxes.

McCains plan give the greatest tax break to people who make over 2 million /yr.

Answer 1

You are uninformed.  Obama plans to let the current tax cuts expire, giving him an automatic tax increase that he doesn't have to approve.  The Democrats cleverly structured the tax cut so that they could all honestly say that they did not vote to raise taxes when the cut expires. So, you tell me; who is deceiving whom?

By the most conservative of estimates, the spending required to fund his plans will swell the national debt by record amounts, creating the largest, fastest growing deficits in history.

Answer 2

IT ALL LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER UNTIL IT COMES TIME TO BALANCE THE BUDGET! OBAMAS HAS PROPOSED HOW HE'S GONNA PAY FOR HIGHER SALARIES FOR TEACHERS, FUND SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, SOLVE THE HOUSING CRISIS, ELIMINATE THE DEFICIT, MAKE SOCIAL SECURITY VIABLE, AND FOR CERTAIN IM MISSING SOME OF HIS GRANDIOSE IDEAS . . . . BUTHE HASNT SAID HOW HES GONNA PAY FOR THEM. FOR CERTAIN HE WILL BE RAISING TAXES. AND BEING THAT I ALREADY CHUNK OUT 30% OF MY PAYCHECK ALREADY, I AINRT DOWN WITH THE SOCIALISTIC APPROACH, OR WITH BARRACK FOR THAT MATTER. SOCIALISM HAS BEEN TRIED, AND PROVEN TO BE DISASTEROUS TO THE ECOMOMY . . . WHAT MAKES OBAMA THINK HE CAN REINVENT THE WHEEL?

Answer 3

Because Obama is really the son of Jimmy Carter lol. And he will raise taxes. You can't have national health care without raising and spending more money. Also you can't have people depending on the government unless you tax the wealthy and all of our jobs leave the country. This is all part of the socialist plan of the left to redistribute wealth amongst all.  

Answer 4

why do the Dems insist on saying Clinton ran budget surpluses and paid down the national debt?  He came close to a surplus when he only had a 17 billion dollar deficit in 2000 but thats as close as he came. note that my source is from the US treasury dept figures

Answer 5

Well geez, if Obama is promising they'll go down it must be true.

Lower taxes, but free healthcare?  I don't think so.

Answer 6

author of question: please site your sources. Obama said i'm rich bc i make 250K and that i should pay more. sure you mccain said 5 mil in jest but it's arbitrary bc he doesn't plan on raising taxes anyway.

don't think it's fair to give to people who refuse to help themselves. it's not the way.

Answer 7

It's all they've got!  They certainly can't run on their record.  What amazes me is how people believe the lies.  And guys like "captains" who thinks that we can spend 10 billion a month on a bogus war and still afford tax cuts for the wealthy - but the richest country in the world can't afford health care like every other civilized country in the world.

Answer 8

if you look on Snopes (www.snopes.com)... Obama has tons of lies told about him (about 30 different cites, but some have multiple lies in one)...

McCain has like 4...

it's almost like people are looking for reasons to not vote for him... and they don't care if it's true or not...

wonder why... how is he different? hmm?

Answer 9

bush and all of his worshipers learned that trick from hitler

"if you repeat a lie long enough, it becomes truth."

Answer 10

these people are bombarded by misinformation from people like Hannity and Limbaugh.  Then they pass it on to other Republicans, who in turn stretch the misinformation even more.  I have gotten dozens of chain emails about Obama filled with lies from Republicans.  It usually takes less than ten minutes to prove them false.  I don't know if they don't care about the facts or if they just have that much hate in them that they want to lie about someone.

Julie H. has been copy/pasting that lie all week.  I am beginning to wonder if she and a whole bunch of others on here aren't being paid by the RNC.