Posted by
Defend America on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 10:47:02 PM
Read His Lips: Obama Calls for Increasing Payroll Taxes on ‘Households’ Earning Less Than $250,000 Per Year
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
By
Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
(CNSNews.com) -
President Obama presented a new health care plan on Monday that calls
for raising the Medicare payroll tax on some households earning less
than $250,000, an apparent breach of his campaign pledge not to raise
taxes on families earning less than that amount. The president’s plan
also calls for increasing taxes on interest, dividends, annuities,
royalties and rents.
In a Sept. 12, 2008
campaign speech
in Dover, N.H, Obama said: “And I can make a firm pledge: Under my
plan, no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes
increase—not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your
capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”
But the new health care plan released in summary form yesterday by the White House
specifically calls
for increasing the Medicare payroll tax on “households with incomes
exceeding $200,000 for singles and $250,000 for married couples filing
jointly.”
Unless President Obama is prepared to say that the only type of
“family” that qualifies as a “family” under his tax pledge is one that
is formed around a "married couple filing jointly," then his new health
care proposal violates his 2008 tax pledge on its face. The Internal
Revenue Service, for example, makes clear that the “head of household”
tax filing status is for “unmarried” taxpayers. A
definition of the term
“head of household” on the IRS Web site says: “Generally, you may claim
head of household filing status on your tax return only if you are
unmarried and pay more than 50% of the costs of keeping up a home for
yourself and your dependent(s) or other qualifying individuals.”
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