Obama is open to a tax on soda

  While he was running for president here is what Barack Obama said about middle class taxes:

I can make a firm pledge, 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. You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.

  Of course this was a lie and it did not take him long to break his promise when he raised cigarette taxes by 60 cents. Unless of course he provided cigarette vouchers for the poor and I am pretty sure that didn’t happen. I guess the word “any” doesn’t mean what it used to and now Barack Obama is open to raising another tax on families who are making under $250,000.

Barack Obama is open to taxing soda and other sugary drinks in order to help pay for his floundering healthcare reform bill. Who does this tax hurt the most? Lower income and middle class families, you know those same families that he promised he would not raise taxes on.

  This is something that was not unexpected by many of us, the numbers just did not and up during the campaign and the numbers still do not add up. There is no way that Barack Obama could follow through on all of his campaign entitlement program promises and pay for them simply by taxing the rich and closing corporate loopholes. But the people who sounded the warming alarms were ridiculed and called fear mongers. With the cigarette tax increase we saw the first sign that the administration was willing to backtrack on its tax pledge. Now we are seeing another example of the Obama administration possibly getting ready to tax the middle to lower classes yet again.

  But his tax increases on those who make under $250,000 might not stop there either, if Obama’s cap and trade bill ever passes that will be yet another tax on all Americans. Obama has also floated the idea of taxing a person’s healthcare benefits that are received through a person’s employer, a proposal that he ridiculed during the campaign when it was proposed by John McCain. This would be another tax on those same people that he promised would see a tax cut.

  Barack Obama still claims that he cut taxes on 95% of Americans, and he did give us a small temporary income tax break but that tax break is just being taken from us with taxes that are more stealth taxes. Smokers are paying more taxes than ever and Obama may be open to taxing people for drinking soda, these people will be paying higher taxes than ever. It is time for Obama to drop the myth lie that he will not raise any taxes on families that make under $250,000.