The first ‘official’ tax increase begins today: Obama’s beloved Cigarettes

obama_smoke_marlboro.jpgObama oves cigarettes as we all know. But in order to pay for his Trojan Horse the S-CHIP, he raised taxes on cigarettes. Hotair says that it will hit working class families the hardest and AP reporter Calvin Woodward is REALLY pissed off about it:

One of President Barack Obama’s campaign pledges on taxes went up in puffs of smoke Wednesday.

The largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama’s promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000.

This is one tax that disproportionately affects the poor, who are more likely to smoke than the rich.

To be sure, Obama’s tax promises in last year’s campaign were most often made in the context of income taxes. Not always.

“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.”


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April 1, 2009 · Filed Under Taxes

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