Let’s stop calling them broken promises. If you promise something with good intentions but fail to deliver on your promise, that’s a broken promise. If you promise something with every intention of breaking your promise, then you’re a liar. Obama’s a liar. He lied to the American people when he said no American family making less than $250,000 a year would see their taxes raised. He broke that “promise” almost immediately after taking office when he raised the tax on cigarettes. He had no intention of keeping that “promise”. At the same time he made the “promise” he also told us he would “give us” health insurance. He knew full well he’d have to raise taxes to deliver.
President Obama presented a new health care plan on Monday that calls for raising the Medicare payroll tax on some households earning less than $250,000, an apparent breach of his campaign pledge not to raise taxes on families earning less than that amount. The president’s plan also calls for increasing taxes on interest, dividends, annuities, royalties and rents.
In a Sept. 12, 2008 campaign speech in Dover, N.H, Obama said: “And I can make a firm pledge: Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase—not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
But the new health care plan released in summary form yesterday by the White House specifically calls for increasing the Medicare payroll tax on “households with incomes exceeding $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for married couples filing jointly.”
Unless President Obama is prepared to say that the only type of “family” that qualifies as a “family” under his tax pledge is one that is formed around a ”married couple filing jointly,” then his new health care proposal violates his 2008 tax pledge on its face. The Internal Revenue Service, for example, makes clear that the “head of household” tax filing status is for “unmarried” taxpayers. A definition of the term “head of household” on the IRS Web site says: “Generally, you may claim head of household filing status on your tax return only if you are unmarried and pay more than 50% of the costs of keeping up a home for yourself and your dependent(s) or other qualifying individuals.”
His mouthpiece, Robert Gibbs, has repeated the lie. Do you still believe it?
Read the full story at CNS News.
H/T ACVJ
Ok…………
Who here actually believed Big Ears when he made this promise during the campaign?
Really? REALLY?
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I was watching The O’Reilly Factor last night and his talking points memo mentioned the following:
President Obama says his health care initiative will cost almost a trillion dollars over the next 10 years, but some analysts believe the cost will be double that. And because the USA is nearly bankrupt now, higher taxes are coming.
The group Americans for Tax Reform estimates that over the next 10 years, the feds will raise nearly $750 billion in new taxes. That, of course, will affect everybody, not just the rich. So get ready.
Already some states are taxing car accidents. If you have one, you could pay for the cleanup.
Also, some places want 911 calls taxed. You make one, you pay. If police or firefighters respond to your emergency, you could be taxed. The government calls this a fee for services.
President Obama wants to tax tanning salons. And you can expect higher taxes on everything that might not be good for you like Frosted Flakes, Haagen-Dazs and gummy bears.
Here in New York state, they are now charging sales tax when you buy stuff out of state. So if I’m down in Florida and New York state people find out I buy a boat there, they’ll come after me.
In addition, expect higher tolls on roadways, higher fees for licenses, registrations, inspections and just about anything else the government can think of.
So the big government expansion President Obama wants will affect every American. We will all pay a lot more money to the government.
The question then becomes: Is a health care entitlement, or increased aid to the poor, or more money to the Pentagon worth the toll, pardon the pun, it will take on working Americans?
“Talking Points” believes we are taxed to the max right now. Just look at every bill you get. There is a tax included, and those taxes are going up, and no one will tell you that.
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