President Obama Now Says He's 'Agnostic' On Possible Tax Hikes For Households Below $250K a Year

New York Daily News ^ | Wednesday, February 10, 2010 | Kenneth R. Bazinet

[kristinn]

President Obama says he is now "agnostic" about raising taxes on households making under $250,000 a year to help cut budget deficits, signaling a possible retreat from a campaign pledge.

In an interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek on newsstands Friday, Obama said a presidential budget commission needs to look at all options for deficit reduction - including tax increases and cuts in spending on such programs as Social Security and Medicare.

"The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table," Obama said. "So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions."

Obama repeatedly vowed during the 2008 campaign to spare households earning less than $250,000 a year from tax increases.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

IIRC the guy below was a one termer:

[Varsity Flight]

StealCare....”Health Backed Securities or Jail-time/Fine threats” didn’t go through, so now the mask has to totally come off.

[blueyon]

“...and cuts in spending on such programs as Social Security and Medicare”.

If the people that paid into SS where the ones collecting we would not have a problem...

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

You are absolutely correct! The d!ckhe@d hasn’t changed one iota since his days of voting ‘present’ in the Illinois legislature.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Can we sell “Tax Anticipation Notes”?

TAN for short

[stephenjohnbanker]

Obama never intended to run again. He knows that once he completes the destruction of our economy, he will be lucky to get out alive ;-)

[Gabrial]

The bottom line is he can't fund his welfare state without taking everyone’s money.

It is really simple math.

[Kaslin]

The difference is President Bush41 was forced by the rats to break his promise and that is a fact

[DLfromthedesert]

Can he spell “Lame Duck” ?

[Kaslin]

I have been playing with Corel Paintshop pro

[Palladin]

A Freudian slip.

He is admitting he is a Marxist, as they are all either atheists or agnostics.

[Question Liberal Authority]

I am coming to believe that the Republicans could run Mickey Mouse in 2012 and win in a landslide.

Mickey Mouse has too much baggage, but other cartoon characters could certainly be swept into office.

Captain America is sure going to be sorry that he switched to Democrat.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

First “agnostic”, then comes the waffle.

[Palladin]

Good one!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks kristinn. Hey, somebody’s gotta pay for all those kickbacks, bribes, payoffs, and other corruption!

[RightOnline]

“Yet the good comrades in the socialist lamestream media call him educated? what a joke.”

Drives me nuts, too, OldCorpse [with a nod to the Educated One] :)

[klimeckg]

I don't know how to use agnostic in a sentence! :-)

[klimeckg]

CHUMP!