You Didn’t Really Think Obama Wouldn’t Raise You’re Taxes, Did You?

I really don’t need to provide links to Obama promising, over and over again, not to raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000 per year, do I? Don’t we all remember that? He said it many times. So what if the first thing he did when he took office was to raise taxes on cigarette smokers. Nobody likes them anyway. But did you really think he’d stop there? Really? Even after he took federal spending to all new levels? Well, remember the old saying “Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you.”

AP/Yahoo: President Barack Obama suggested Wednesday that a new value-added tax on Americans is still on the table, seeming to show more openness to the idea than his aides have expressed in recent days.

Before deciding what revenue options are best for dealing with the deficit and the economy, Obama said in an interview with CNBC, “I want to get a better picture of what our options are.”

After Obama adviser Paul Volcker recently raised the prospect of a value-added tax, or VAT, the Senate voted 85-13 last week for a nonbinding “sense of the Senate” resolution that calls the such a tax “a massive tax increase that will cripple families on fixed income and only further push back America’s economic recovery.”

For days, White House spokesmen have said the president has not proposed and is not considering a VAT.

Stock up on essentials now. He said he’ll wait to decide until after he hears back from his fiscal advisory commission. You know, the one that includes former SEIU thug boss Andy Stern. He probably will wait to make a decision until after the mid-term elections in November.

We couldn’t afford the socialist policies that were already on the books. How do you think we’re going to pay for the new ones? If only all calculators went up to a trillion more Americans would understand what we’re getting into. Or should I say, what we’ve gotten ourselves into.

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