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Another Obama campaign promise expires

Aren’t you feeling all Hopeychangey with Turbo Tax Timmeh running the show?

Obama’s already broken a ton of campaign promises, especially that “95% of Americans will get a tax cut” thingy that many naive Americans foolishly believed.  Well, here’s a question for you middle-class Americans who voted for The One because, in part, you actually believed that a Democrat (especially of the Marxist brand) who had never voted for a tax cut would finally do it: how does his butt taste now?

Details:

To get the economy back on track, will President Barack Obama have to break his pledge not to raise taxes on 95 percent of Americans? In a “This Week” exclusive, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told me, “We’re going to have to do what’s necessary.”

Geithner was clear that he believes a key component of economic recovery is deficit reduction. When I gave him several opportunities to rule out a middle class tax hike, he wouldn’t do it.

“We have to bring these deficits down very dramatically,” Geithner told me. “And that’s going to require some very hard choices.”

Heh…”95%”, huh?  Breaking a campaign promise in the first six months: brilliant!

BTW, isn’t it cute that ABC’s piece opens with the assumption (masquerading as fact) that increasing taxes leads to economic prosperity?  “To get the economy” corrected, B.O. may “have to” raise taxes?  I don’t know of a country that has ever taxed itself into prosperity.  After all, taxes are, by nature, disincentives to productivity.

August 3, 2009 - Posted by crushliberalism | hypocrisy, Obama, taxes, Tim Geithner