Excerpt From Blog Post:Jacob Sullum
Washington Times
President Obama's promise to raise taxes only on the wealthy was easy to make and easy to break. He broke it barely two weeks after taking office, and he will break it again if Congress passes the health care legislation he wants. But Mr. Obama has come up with a strategy to avoid the fate of George H.W. Bush: Although he will raise your taxes, he will never admit he is raising your taxes. Campaigning in Dover, N.H., in September 2008, Mr. Obama declared: "I can make a firm pledge. 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."
Five months later, Mr. Obama signed a bill that more than doubled the federal cigarette tax, which...
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