With health care reform and climate changes on the table, the White House seems to be backing away from Obama's campaign promise to not raise taxes for families earning less than $250,000.
"The president has said in the past that he doesn't believe taxing health care benefits at any level is necessarily the best way to go here. He still believes that, but there are a number of formulations and we'll wait and see," explained Obama's senior advisor, David Axelrod, to George Stephanopoulos on ABC's "This Week."
Watch Axelrod under pressure.
Below is a quick video of Obama's September campaign promise:
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Not that the possibility of another broken Obama campaign promise surprises anybody, but I hope that middle class taxpayers retaliate against the Democratic Congress in 2010 if middle class taxes are indeed raised.
Oops! I forgot to mention that many of Obama's campaign promises, healthcare, PC climate change regulations, mandatory community service, etc., are based on constitutionally nonexistent federal government powers anyway. The bottom line is that the phony powers long associated with the federal government, powers politically delegated to the feds by special-interest groups as opposed the limited powers actually delegated to the feds by the Constitution, need to be destroyed.
"White House retreats from Obama's no middle class tax increase promise"
The issue really is why did it take him over 100 days?
WE KNEW it was like EVERYTHING else he has ever said.
How many families making $249,999 a year are really the ones "hurting" right now???
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