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February 2, 2010“I can make a firm pledge,” [Obama] said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12, 2008. “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.”
Reuters has noticed that, apart from containing the largest deficit in American history, Barack Obama’s proposed 2010 budget also raises taxes on the middle-class, breaking a strong and clear vow the failed President made while campaigning for the office in 2008.
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Nearly half of all households in the US will pay no Income Tax to the Federal government for 2009, with substantial numbers actually receiving money from Washington as part of the “progressive” tax system according to the non-partisan Tax Policy Center.
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The tax burden on Pennsylvania residents is up 49% over the past ten years, making PA the 11th highest state in per-capita taxation with $4,463 confiscated from each man, woman and child each year.
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Tax-happy Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s approval rating stands at an all-time low of 39% according to a new poll conducted by Quinnipiac University that was released today.
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The PA House Republicans have indicated, via Twitter, that Pennsylvania’s long-delayed budget may come to a vote as early as Thursday.
The spokesman for Governor Ed Rendell provided a rare window into how emotional and passionate the Rendell administration is about rasing taxes on working Pennsylvanians when he called the Commonwealth Foundation’s Matt Brouillette a “flaming asshole” at a news conference this morning according to Brouillette.
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It appears that the 16% hike in Pennsylvania’s Income Tax, championed by Democrat Governor Ed Rendell, is dead in the water.
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Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell has his heart set on jacking up the state’s Income Tax by 16%. The Republicans in the legislature are saying loudly they will not vote for a tax increase, and even some Democrats in the legislature are saying the same thing in quiet voices so Fast Eddie doesn’t hear them.
The June 30th deadline for Pennsylvania’s budget is looming, and the PA House Republicans report that the Democrats picked up and ran off for the weekend earlier today leaving no chance at any agreement until Monday the 29th.
Maybe they were spooked by a new poll showing that cash strapped PA residents prefer budget cuts to Governor Ed Rendell’s proposed 16% tax hike. The poll was sponsored by a number of media groups in the state including Philadelphia’s WPVI-TV.
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When dealing with the media, it’s sometimes hard to determine what is bias and what is lamentable stupidity. Take this gem from Robert Swift. He bills himself as the Harrisburg Bureau Chief of Scranton’s Times-Tribune. I just hope he doesn’t do their books.
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