OPINION: President Obama May Break Campaign Promise -- Raising Taxes

By Reason Foundation , Free Minds and Free Markets - June 30, 2009

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Yesterday on ABC's This Week , Obama adviser David Axelrod left the door open to funding health care reform through tax hikes on households making less than $250,000, which would violate one of the president's campaign promises. Host George Stephanopoulos showed a September 2008 clip of candidate Obama saying: I can make a firm pledge. Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital ... Read the Full Article
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OPINION: President Obama May Break Campaign Promise -- Raising Taxes
  • Blackbird
    Surprised? Not!

    This is what happens when the uneducated elect the unqualified. Everything Bush did "wrong", Obama is continuing to do. Everything else is what McCain advocated that was so bad during the campaign. He got his power, and that is our fault! What he's doing with the power, in the form of huge tax increases from both health care reform and Cap and Trade, is his fault.

    - BlackbirdUS July 1, 2009 10:46AM

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