{"id":4794,"date":"2010-04-15T15:23:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T19:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2010-04-15T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T20:17:21","slug":"obamas-no-new-taxes-lie-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4794\/obamas-no-new-taxes-lie-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s &#8220;No New Taxes&#8221; Lie:  By the Numbers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when both Candidate Obama and President Obama promised (on more than one occasion) that no family making less than $250,000 per year would see any of their taxes increase &#8211; <em>not &#8220;one single dime?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, that promise\u00a0held true for a little while&#8230; <em>yeah<\/em>&#8230; for about the political equivalent of five minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, according to House Way &amp; Means Committee Ranking Member Dave Camp (R-MI):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since January of 2009, President Obama and Congressional Democrats have enacted into law gross tax increases totaling more than $670 billion, or more than $2,100 for every man, woman and child in the United States.\u00a0 <strong>The list of tax increases includes at least 14 violations of the President\u2019s pledge not to raise taxes on Americans earning less than $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for married couples.&#8221; <\/strong>[emphasis added]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">Rep. Camp has compiled all the tax increases in a nice and easy to read chart.\u00a0 Check it out <a href=\"http:\/\/camp.house.gov\/webreturn\/?url=http:\/\/republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov\/Components\/Redirect\/r.aspx?ID=53261-3285085\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 It will come in handy the next time your liberal neighbor suggests that President Obama is actually working to reduce taxes on middle class families.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when both Candidate Obama and President Obama promised (on more than one occasion) that no family making less than $250,000 per year would see any of their taxes increase &#8211; not &#8220;one single dime?&#8221; Well, that promise\u00a0held true for a little while&#8230; yeah&#8230; for about the political equivalent of five minutes. Indeed, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1119,14,1120,71],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-middle-class","tag-president-obama","tag-tax-increases","tag-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4804,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}