Read my lips!

[lupi]

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 More..gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Unless I raise your taxes.

They ranged from raising the Medicare tax, slapping a 10-cents-per-can increase on sweetened drinks, raising the alcohol tax, imposing a new payroll tax on employers equal to 3 percent of their health care expenditures and taxing employer-provided health insurance benefits above certain levels.

Also under consideration was a value added tax, a sort of national sales tax, of up to 1.5 percent or more, with housing, education, financial services and medical care potentially exempt.





Well this should sure make up for the first hundred being rather lackluster. Now he isn't just delaying work on his platform items, now we have active legislation being made that directly opposes. So much for "it's only against smokers" if we get a nice national VAT.


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There is already a thread on UHC - please use it.

Also, decern between the White House and Congress.

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[senseamp]

Idiots. I can't believe they are more interested in bipartisanship than reforming health care.

 

[Craig234]

Originally posted by: lupi
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 More..gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Unless I raise your taxes.

They ranged from raising the Medicare tax, slapping a 10-cents-per-can increase on sweetened drinks, raising the alcohol tax, imposing a new payroll tax on employers equal to 3 percent of their health care expenditures and taxing employer-provided health insurance benefits above certain levels.

Also under consideration was a value added tax, a sort of national sales tax, of up to 1.5 percent or more, with housing, education, financial services and medical care potentially exempt.

Are those making under $250,000 a year paying a *net* tax increase?