"Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes," Obama told a crowd in Dover, N.H., last year.
But less than a month after taking office, Obama signed an expansion of child healthcare financed by
62-cent tax increase on each pack of cigarettes.
The floated proposals include increasing
taxes on alcohol, which could raise $62 billion during the next decade, and a
new tax on sugary drinks such as soda, which could raise $52 billion.
While not directly increasing taxes, a House-passed version of Obama's plan to reduce greenhouse gases blamed for causing global warming would similarly
increase American families' home energy bills by $175 a year on average, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
One version would tax health benefits that exceed the value of the basic insurance plan offered to federal workers, raising about $420 billion during the next decade, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation.
But limiting it to individuals making more than $100,000 a year and couples making more than $200,000 would raise only $162 billion.
The math illustrates how difficult it is to raise enough money to pay for expensive programs, when tax increases are limited to the wealthy.
Newsmax.com - Obama's Broken Promises: Higher Taxes, Massive Debt
