"Obama approves largest increase ever in taxes on tobacco" by Calvin Woodward, Associated Press | April 2, 2009
WASHINGTON - One of President Obama's campaign pledges on taxes went up in puffs of smoke yesterday.
Hey, what is ONE MORE BROKEN PROMISES, 'eh?
This guy has a SATCHEL FULL!!!
The largest increase in tobacco taxes ever took effect despite Obama's promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000. The cigarette tax disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich.
Getting MORE LIKE a BUSH every day!!!! See: Taxing Your Lungs
While Obama's tax promises last year were most often made in the context of income taxes, he sometimes extended that pledge to taxes of any kind.
"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."
I'm NO LONGER SURPRISED he lied, and I EXPECT IT NOW!
Nice "change," 'bamer!
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, and raising taxes on other tobacco products.
I really don't give a shit about his smoking habits, so you can stop blowing that in my face, too, MSM.
The extra money will be used to finance a major expansion of health insurance for children. That represents a step toward achieving another campaign promise, to make sure all children are covered.
And the BULLSHIT FOOLEYS go ON and ON and ON!!
Please see: Coughing Fit
The White House contends Obama's campaign pledge left room for measures such as the one financing children's health insurance.
Yeah, so now we got to PARSE what THIS GUY SAYS -- just as we had to for the LIARS CLINTON and BUSH!!!! Thanks for the "change," Obama!!!!!
"The president's position throughout the campaign was that he would not raise income or payroll taxes on families making less than $250,000, and that's a promise he has kept," said White House spokesman Reid H. Cherlin. "In this case, he supported a public health measure that will extend health coverage to 4 million children who are currently uninsured."
The Democratic campaign used such statements to counter Republican assertions that Obama would raise taxes in a multitude of direct and indirect ways, said Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Turns out, WE WERE RIGHT!!!!!
"I think a reasonable person would have concluded that Senator Obama had made a 'no new taxes' pledge to every couple or family making less than $250,000," she said.
Just as a REASONABLE PERSON would now conclude that HE LIED!!!!!
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Btw, I am getting a LITTLE TIRED and FED UP with KNEE-JERK DEMOCRATS responding with "Where were the Republicans on cutting the budget the last eight years?" -- as if THAT justifies THIS LOOTING!!!!
Yeah, it is OKAY for a DEMOCRAT to LOOT THIS NATION SILLY and give it to the SAME INTERESTS BUSH DID!!!!
Yes, I am TIRED of DUNG-HEADED AMERIKAN CITIZENS playing the CONTROLLED-DEBATE GAME of LIBERAL/CONSERVATIVE, DEMOCRAP or REPUGLICAN!!!!!!
BOTH PARTIES are FASCIST WAR PARTIES!!!
The CHOICE is between the FREEDOM and FASCISM NOW!!!!!!
The SPENDING has to STOP SOMEWHERE, America!
Why not KEEP YOUR MONEY and SPEND IT where YOU SEE FIT -- rather than FORKING IT OVER to the GOVERNMENT and letting THEM DOLE IT OUT to FAVORED INTERESTS and FRIENDS!!
After all, it is YOUR TAX MONEY!!! You don't think that the TAX MONEY they are using came from the RICH or SOMEONE ELSE, did you? I certainly hope not!! Then you are FURTHER GONE than I thought, and need to GET YOUR HEAD out of that SHIT-SPEWING MSM ASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And STOP watching Olbermann and Maddow!!!!
