PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke

News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Apr 1, 2009 1:57 PM EDT

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Wow, reading the White House response is 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."

Now in office, Obama, who stopped smoking but has admitted he slips now and then, signed a law raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, to $1.01. Other tobacco products saw similarly steep increases.

The extra money will be used to finance a major expansion of health insurance for children. That represents a step toward achieving another promise, to make sure all kids are covered.

Obama said in the campaign that Americans could have both—a broad boost in affordable health insurance for the nation without raising taxes on anyone but the rich.

His detailed campaign plan stated that his proposed improvement in health insurance and health technology "is more than covered" by raising taxes on the wealthy alone. It was not based on raising the tobacco tax.

Change we can believe in!

Note it is only 17 months till November 2010.

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space guy

The responses from the White House are what makes this article.

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7 votes

#1 - Wed Apr 1, 2009 1:59 PM EDT

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Waynester

What do you get when you add together (in infaltion adjusted dollars) of the costs of:

WWII
The Marshall Plan
The New Deal
The Louisiana Purchase
The Vietnam War
Nasa
The Iraq War

Ready? What you get is the amount of money Obama and the Democrats have spent in his first 50 days in office.

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8 votes

#2 - Wed Apr 1, 2009 2:48 PM EDT

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Senor Gusto!!!Deleted

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travelingcompanion

Time for another Boston Tea Party .

Before they have the cards in placed for Marshal Law .

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3 votes

#4 - Wed Apr 1, 2009 6:51 PM EDT

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rareety

I wrote to the President Comments@whitehouse.gov

" Men make great liars, but liars do not make great men. Be great Mr. President"

I guess he didn't get my email....

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2 votes

#5 - Wed Apr 1, 2009 9:56 PM EDT

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dandemacy

Obama didn't lie, because "lie" is such a harsh word. He adjusted the truth. There, that phrase makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. Now I can vote like a liberal. The worst part about most liberals is that they don't think about the issues, they feel about them.

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4 votes

#6 - Thu Apr 2, 2009 1:50 PM EDT

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