>Well, not like we didn't see this one coming:
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>http://www.usnews.com/blogs/peter-roff/2009/06/29/obama-considers-middle-class-tax-hikes-for-healthcare-cap-and-trade.html
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>Snippet:
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>Candidate Obama promised those in the middle class that they wouldn't see an increase in the taxes they pay to the federal government. "I pledge to you that under my plan, no one making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not income tax, not capital gains taxes, not any kind of tax," the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader reported him saying in September 2008.
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>The cap and trade legislation he backed that passed the U.S. House Friday will hit the wallets of most every American hard with what many folks would call higher taxes on energy. And now from inside the West Wing comes the word that Obama's much vaunted, much criticized public option healthcare reform will be paid for, at least in part, by higher taxes on the middle class.
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>White House senior adviser David Axelrod said the president won't rule out a health reform bill that includes a middle-class tax hike.
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>If any of you saw the whitehouse press conferences, you heard axelrod skirt the issue when questioned. Cnn broadcasted the question and answer session.
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>Even George Stephanopoulos on it:
>http://blogs.abcnews.com/george/2009/06/axelrod-obama-wont-rule-out-tax-hike-.html
>http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0609/Axelrod_waffles_on_Obama_nomiddleclasstaxhike_vow.html?showall
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062802408.html
>http://www.syracuse.com/today/index.ssf/2009/06/white_house_not_ruling_out_tax.html
>http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/29/obama-willing-to-be-flexible-on-health-care-advise/?feat=home_headlines

Thanks Tamar. Thanks Mike.