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Orszag: The president never “pledged” no new taxes; he simply “preferred”
PolitiPage.com ^ | 05/12/10 | jeff j

Posted on 05/12/2010 11:47:40 AM PDT by nhwingut

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag, grilled about Obama’s pledge not to raise middle-class taxes, left the president wiggle room. Lloyd Grove reports.

(Excerpt) Read more at politipage.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bho44; bhofascism; democrats; obama; orszag; taxcheatparty; taxes
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1 posted on 05/12/2010 11:47:40 AM PDT by nhwingut
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To: nhwingut

He won’t raise taxes on those making 250.. no... 200.... no 75... um... maybe...


2 posted on 05/12/2010 11:49:10 AM PDT by GeronL (http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: nhwingut

It depends on what the meaning of is, is. Bottom line, if you’ve got it, he’s going to take it.


3 posted on 05/12/2010 11:50:23 AM PDT by JPG (Mr. Gore, we have a warrant for your arrest...put your hands behind your back.)
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To: nhwingut

Oh my — BLEEPING lie!!


4 posted on 05/12/2010 11:50:33 AM PDT by WoodlandsTXFreeper2
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To: nhwingut
“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.”

Barack Obama -- Dover, NH --September 12, 2008

5 posted on 05/12/2010 11:51:19 AM PDT by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: nhwingut

What? I remember differently but hey that is just me. I will not raise you taxes one dime was what O said. No?


6 posted on 05/12/2010 11:51:51 AM PDT by ColdOne
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“WTF, over”. I still believe that the “O” is a habitual liar...


7 posted on 05/12/2010 11:53:05 AM PDT by ThomasPaine2000 (Peace without freedom is tyranny.)
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To: nhwingut
Obama's First 100 Days - Promises - we don't need no stinkin promises
8 posted on 05/12/2010 11:53:06 AM PDT by Fred (Vote for a REID FREE NEVADA....)
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To: WayneS

These people have no shame! How the f do they sleep at night? They are now telling the sheeple that they didn’t hear what they heard! What a dumb bunch of sob’s, the “o” voters, that is!


9 posted on 05/12/2010 11:54:52 AM PDT by rj45mis
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To: nhwingut

Orszag is a deadbeat dad. It’s fitting that he’s the point man on this.


10 posted on 05/12/2010 11:55:18 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: nhwingut

President For Life Barack HOSEYOU Odumbo and a “non-pledge” on new taxes from youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ5fOsyj-bk


11 posted on 05/12/2010 11:55:19 AM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: WayneS

He’s playing to their faithful voters - - not much else can be said.


12 posted on 05/12/2010 11:55:57 AM PDT by Loud Mime (People in prison find Jesus - - People in politics find satan)
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To: nhwingut

Non stop lying hands down from the Obama regime.

We have it on tape munchkin boy. He did not say “preferred”. He said anyone under 250,000 dollars a year would not see one dime in new taxes.

And he said it far more than one time. It was a lie and we all know it.


13 posted on 05/12/2010 11:55:57 AM PDT by dforest
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To: rj45mis

“These people have no shame! How the f do they sleep at night?”

They are politicians first, humans second.


14 posted on 05/12/2010 11:56:05 AM PDT by listenhillary (You might be a modern LIBERAL if you read 1984 & said "YEAH! That's the world that I want!")
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To: WayneS

Yup, WayneS, your post says it all. There’s not misunderstanding that statement, IMHO.


15 posted on 05/12/2010 11:56:29 AM PDT by MNGal
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To: nhwingut

No family making less than $250,000 will see “any form of tax increase.”

“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.”

******

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.
Barack Obama

******

Obama: No New Taxes on Middle Class

Monday, September 21, 2009

On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Obama insisted he could still keep his campaign pledge not to raise taxes on people making less than $250,000. He said much of the cost of the overhaul, his top domestic priority, could be funded by rooting out waste and abuse from the current system.

“I can still keep that promise because as I’ve said, about two-thirds of what we’ve proposed would be from money that’s already in the healthcare system but just being spent badly. And as I said before, this is not me making wild assertions,” Obama said.

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“I can make a firm pledge,” he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. “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.”

He repeatedly vowed “you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.”


16 posted on 05/12/2010 11:56:37 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: nhwingut
Sounds like Bill Clinton. "He kept all the promises he intended to keep."
17 posted on 05/12/2010 11:58:06 AM PDT by JoeFromSidney ( My new book, RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, now available from Amazon.)
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To: nhwingut

Here is a better youtube, with the actual word “PLEDGE” in it, used by the messi-duh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8erePM8V5U&feature=related


18 posted on 05/12/2010 11:59:43 AM PDT by Mr. Jazzy ("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
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To: nhwingut

But it’s OK because health care costs will be lower- so we should be THANKING him!!

Remember?

He told us so


19 posted on 05/12/2010 11:59:43 AM PDT by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: WayneS

Thanks...Visited the site of this article and left your posting there. HOWEVER, my post is “awaiting moderation”. Anyone know the over/under if it will actually get posted?


20 posted on 05/12/2010 11:59:48 AM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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