What Does Barack Obama's Presidency mean for Internet Marketers? You Decide?

[tldrental]

http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1209506

Mods, you may want to move this, but seemed appropriate for mr to put here, but please move if I am wrong.

 

[loredan]

Q:What Does Barack Obama's Presidency mean for Internet Marketers?

A: Nothing

 

[Hurley4540]

Yes, exactly.....

 

[Bill Roy]

Hi tld,

If you meant 'internet marketers' then agreed nothing!

If you actually meant 'domainers', such as members here, then quite a bit, but nothing staggeringly Earth shattering.

If the proposed renewable energy policy is carried out then of course domains in this area could well go up as would parking returns (if Google/Yahoo/etc and the intermediaries pass them on to domainers that is).

Another major area is the expansion of the Broadband utility throughout much of the country. This would make internet connections faster and allow especially for more streaming video adverts on parked pages as well as developed websites.

Overall it would seem to be a good thing. (Compared to the fact that America could have had a President who doesn't even use email it would actually seem to be massive.)

 

[jdk]

Sites down

 

[Gerry]

Considering that this candidate more than any candidate in history embraced and empowered internet users to participate directly in the election.

He had a mobile site, had tens of thousands of follows on twitter - both not previously used in any other election, BUT STILL available to all candidates in this election but choosing not to use.

He and McCain had the standard web sites. Being a person involved with the McCain Exploratory group, there were regular McCain updates via email. I still have the email that McCain sent out notifying us that he had decided to run and would announce that night on David Letterman. But after that, it seems his campaign notices dropped off.

Obama did not. Regular emails, announcements and addressing the followers on Twitter and on and on.

So in regards to the question, what does his win mean to Internet Marketers - obviously he embraced it, used it, and it helped put him where he is today.

So I can not see anything negative come of the internet as a result and I think many will take a long hard look at the real value of the internet - ALL THE INTERNET including mobile and micro-blogging.

 

[Deleted member 5660]

Hi tld,

If you meant 'internet marketers' then agreed nothing!

If you actually meant 'domainers', such as members here, then quite a bit, but nothing staggeringly Earth shattering.

If Obama gets his tax plans through Congress the capital gains tax will go through the roof. If someone sells capital assets for $100K they now keep $85K. Under Obama's plan it could be more like $67K or less and the rest of the money gets "spread around" to people who sit around watching TV all day.

 

[Theo]

If Obama gets his tax plans through Congress the capital gains tax will go through the roof. If someone sells capital assets for $100K they now keep $85K. Under Obama's plan it could be more like $67K or less and the rest of the money gets "spread around" to people who sit around watching TV all day.

Forgot to mention: if their annual income exceeds $250,000. Otherwise, capital gains tax rate remains as is.

 

[Sonny Banks]

What Does Barack Obama's Presidency mean for Internet Marketers?
Because he's intelligent?

He's great because he understand the power of Internet.
You will see in next months.

 

[Theo]

Barack Obama invented the Internet 3.0

 

[Sonny Banks]

Barack Obama invented the Internet 3.0

Agree!!!!
The world is changed last night.

 

[Deleted member 5660]

Forgot to mention: if their annual income exceeds $250,000. Otherwise, capital gains tax rate remains as is.

Yes, people who sit around all day watching TV (or making hundreds of useless posts) instead of working generally make less than $250K so they support the plan to take money from those that work harder than they do.

 

[Steen]

From a global perspective: Anyone who makes their money from the internet should be very adaptable. Politics aside things change very quickly. I think this group of people (us) should be the least worried about how things will change in January 09.

From a US perspective: taxes, regulation and legal liability come to mind as possible caveats.

Yes, people who sit around all day watching TV (or making hundreds of useless posts) instead of working generally make less than $250K so they support the plan to take money from those that work harder than they do.

The unfortunate side of citizenship. Everyone else but Americans can simply leave if they are unhappy with their country's tax system.

 

[stewie]

Barack Obama invented the Internet 3.0

ound:

 

[Gerry]

Yes, people who sit around all day watching TV (or making hundreds of useless posts) instead of working generally make less than $250K so they support the plan to take money from those that work harder than they do.

I have 34 years worth of 1044's demonstrating that same thing - increased taxes, increased capital gains tax. Nothing has changed.

In my entire working career, no matter how much I have made or who was president, the more I made the more was taken. Thanks to the variable tax brackets.

Now if someone wants to propose an across the board tax rate, people will ***** because they will have to pay more and some will be glad to pay less.

Then the state tax rates continue to climb irregardless who was in office.

Consider the $10billion a day going to Iraq and the recent $700billion bailout. We don't have that money. It does not exist. It never existed.

You and your children will pay for it. It would not matter who was elected to the oval office. This is the cold hard reality we all have to face. Dem or Rep - we all won a bigger tax burden and deficit.

And the next 4 or 8 years will not matter. Because that debt will STILL NOT be paid off. And it will continue to grow.

No matter what. No matter who.

So you might want to break this to your children now.

 

[H2FC]

If Obama gets his tax plans through Congress the capital gains tax will go through the roof. If someone sells capital assets for $100K they now keep $85K. Under Obama's plan it could be more like $67K or less and the rest of the money gets "spread around" to people who sit around watching TV all day.

This was taken from Obamas' website concerning capital gains tax.....

Capital Gains

: Families with incomes below $250,000 will continue to pay the capital gains rates​

that they pay today. For those in the top two income tax brackets – likewise adjusted to affect only

families over $250,000 – Obama will create a new top capital gains rate of 20 percent. Obama’s 20%

rate is equal is the lowest rate that existed in the 1990s and the rate that President Bush proposed in​

2001. It is almost a third lower than the rate that President Reagan signed into law in 1986.​

Why do some people keep saying Obama will raise the capital gains tax to 33% or more when he has clearly stated otherwise? ​

Please verify his tax plan here....http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/taxes/Factsheet_Tax_Plan_FINAL.pdf​

 

[Theo]

Yes, people who sit around all day watching TV (or making hundreds of useless posts) instead of working generally make less than $250K so they support the plan to take money from those that work harder than they do.

I don't watch TV. As for my posting numbers, some people are prolific - it's part of being sociable, intelligent and intellectually active. Others, prefer to pretend they work or achieve something by being flame-baits.

Next year my taxes will be in the 5 figures. So figure it out.

 

[Deleted member 5660]

This was taken from Obamas' website concerning capital gains tax.....

Capital Gains

: Families with incomes below $250,000 will continue to pay the capital gains rates​

that they pay today. For those in the top two income tax brackets – likewise adjusted to affect only

families over $250,000 – Obama will create a new top capital gains rate of 20 percent. Obama’s 20%

rate is equal is the lowest rate that existed in the 1990s and the rate that President Bush proposed in​

2001. It is almost a third lower than the rate that President Reagan signed into law in 1986.​

Why do some people keep saying Obama will raise the capital gains tax to 33% or more when he has clearly stated otherwise? ​

Please verify his tax plan here....http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/taxes/Factsheet_Tax_Plan_FINAL.pdf​

Obama cannot raise or lower taxes, it is Congress who would need to pass any tax laws so any presidential "plan" is just that, a proposed plan. What Obama can do is hire/fire and remove propgrams to save money. He doesn't mention any of that because he can actually do it. Reagan/Bush/Nixon have all raised expenses/taxes and increased government It not just a Democrat problem so comparing any plan to what they did is not really valid. You need to look at the history of taxation and how it damages various societies and fails every time. The Boston Tea Party was the result of a very small tax as compared to today's standard but the people knew what would happen if they allowed it to continue. That is what happened to the British empire. See http://www.taxhistory.org/. Much of what is happening now started with the Chrysler Bailout. Now the unions/bankers/stock brokers demand anything they want because if the business fails the government just swoops in and bails them out by taking money from others who run sucessful businesses. This happens over many decades so claims one President or party is responsible is not correct. It is because people are lazy and they want the government to take money from others and give it to them in the name of "fairness."

Why would taxing people at who make more be 'fair'? If you make twice as much then you should pay twice the taxes, not three times.

 

[Theo]

Why would taxing people at who make more be 'fair'? If you make twice as much then you should pay twice the taxes, not three times.

Be my guest and get elected as a congressman and lobby to change the tiered taxation system. But don't blame it on Obama; it exists for decades.

It all starts when you mistake capitalism for absolutism; it just doesn't work this way. Taxes are there for a reason or else we'd live in city-states that'd be independent, self-sufficient communities. That's a videogame reality, unfortunately.

 

[Bill Roy]

The election is over, though you may not think so by the number of threads still getting added to on a regular basis.

The American people have chosen whom they wish to control lawmaking within the USA for the next 4 years (although some seats will be up for election in the legistlature in 2 years).

Now is the time to return to domaining and making a living form it.