Lets see--
--Campaign finance
--no pork or earmarks
--no lobbyist in his cabinet
--cut spending
--reduce deficit
and today we can add another--
WASHINGTON (AP) - One of President Barack Obama's campaign pledges on taxes went up in puffs of smoke Wednesday.
The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama's promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000. This is one tax that disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich.
"I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "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 gains taxes, not any of your taxes." He repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."
Is there any pledge he's kept except redistribution of wealth--ie taking from the productive to compensate the irresponsible (his base):shrug:
I won-I'm Gumby damit - Yes we can--
--Campaign finance
--no pork or earmarks
--no lobbyist in his cabinet
--cut spending
--reduce deficit
and today we can add another--
WASHINGTON (AP) - One of President Barack Obama's campaign pledges on taxes went up in puffs of smoke Wednesday.
The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama's promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000. This is one tax that disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich.
"I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "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 gains taxes, not any of your taxes." He repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."
Is there any pledge he's kept except redistribution of wealth--ie taking from the productive to compensate the irresponsible (his base):shrug:
I won-I'm Gumby damit - Yes we can--
