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Originally Posted by JohnnyD
Bad Article that is selective in its reporting.
What the article leaves out is that Obama came out almost immediately after the Advisers made their comments and reiterated his stance on not raising taxes.
I like this line;
"Democrats have already taxed the middle class by raising cigarette taxes to pay for the children’s health-care expansion."
There was widespread support by Republicans for the cig tax increase, yet the author of the article (rather, the *Opinion* article) puts the emphasis on Democrats. This is aside from the ridiculousness that stating increasing the cig tax is "taxing the middle-class".
Misinformation at its best.
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As you stated, it is an "opinion" piece. But the context of it is correct in stating that he more than likely lied when he unequivocally said he wasn't going to raise taxes on the middle class. His own people are already saying that they can't rule out tax increases for the middle class.
Hell, it's only been about seven months since he took office and he's spending money like a sex addict at the bunny ranch on half price day. Now it's $2.4 billion for electric cars? WTF. When will he just sit down with some experts and evaluate things? It's like he's afraid if he doesn't keep rushing things through and throwing money around, someone might find out that he has no idea what's he's doing.