Cutting Taxes? Not So Much...

Hope and Change, eh?

I will cut taxes--cut taxes--for 95% of all working families.
In an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raising
taxes on the middle-class.
(Source: Speech at 2008 Democratic Natl Convention Aug 27, 2008 )

Here's some change for you...

President Obama's top political adviser refused today to rule out the possibility that the White House might agree to a tax hike on health insurance plans that would hit middle-income Americans.

Speaking on ABC's "This Week" program, David Axelrod declined to repeat Obama's "firm pledge" during the campaign that families making under $250,000 will not see "any form of tax increase, not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Instead, Axelrod said the president has no interest in "drawing lines in the sand" on the issue of how to pay for the costly health reform plan making its way through Congress.

"One of the problems we've had in this town is that people draw lines in the sand and they stop talking to each other. And you don't get anything done," Axelrod said. "That's not the way the president approaches this."

Looks like this one is going to rank with George H.W.'s "read my lips" line.

H/T RightWing News