JCT:Healthcare law to sock middle class with a $3.9 billion tax increase in 2019

By Jay Heflin,The Hill

 There goes that campaign pledge

Taxpayers earning less than $200,000 a year will pay roughly $3.9 billion more in taxes — in 2019 alone — due to healthcare reform,according to the Joint Committee on Taxation,Congress’s official scorekeeper.

The new law raises $15.2 [...]

Obama “Agnostic” on Middle Class Tax Hikes

BY KENNETH R. BAZINET,NY Daily News

 Throw another Obama Promise out the window…

President Obama says he is now "agnostic"about raising taxes on households making under $250,000 a year to help cut budget deficits,signaling a possible retreat from a campaign pledge.

In an interview with Bloomberg [...]

Obama’s tax increase hammers middle-income Americans

Jim Brown,OneNewsNow

A tax policy expert says President Obama’s economic advisers should be coming up with ways to cut spending and let the economy heal itself instead of refusing to guarantee they won’t raise taxes on middle-class Americans.

President Obama’s treasury secretary Tim Geithner and chief economic adviser Larry [...]

Obama Officials:Middle-class taxes going up

By Philip Elliott,Associated Press

President Barack Obama’s treasury secretary said Sunday he cannot rule out higher taxes to help tame an exploding budget deficit,and his chief economic adviser would not dismiss raising them on middle-class Americans as part of a health care overhaul.

As the White House [...]

Obama’s insidious war on the middle class

By Floyd and Mary Beth Brown,Worldnetdaily

Like a Pac Man gobbling up everything in sight,going after folks making more than $250,000 a year is not enough to satisfy Obama’s insatiable appetite for money and power. He wants more. Although it means breaking a campaign promise to tax only the [...]

Axelrod waffles on Obama no-middle-class-tax-hike vow

Politico

there goes Obama's no middle class tax hikes promise

The White House seems to be retreating from President Barack Obama’s campaign promise that he would not raise taxes on families making less than $250,000.

Under persistent questioning from ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Sunday,Obama senior adviser David Axelrod declined to restate the [...]