Obama's Altered Tax Pledge

2008:

“I can make a firm pledge.  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.”

--Candidate Barack Obama, Sept. 12, 2008

“No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama’s plan will see one single penny of their tax raised whether it’s their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.”

--Joe Biden, Vice-Presidential debate in St. Louis, Oct. 3, 2008

2012:

“So if your family makes under $250,000 -- which, by the way, 98 percent of Americans do -- 97 percent of small businesses do, you will not see your income taxes increase by a single dime next year.  That’s my plan. -- August 8, 2012 Grand Junction, CO

“Now, if your family makes under $250,000 -- which, by the way, is 98 percent of American families and 97 percent of small businesses -- under my plan, your income taxes would not increase a single dime next year. (Applause.) That’s my plan.” -- August 9, 2012 in Colorado Springs, CO

“So if your family makes $250,000 a year or less -- like 98 percent of Americans -- you won’t see your income taxes increase by a single dime next year under my plan.  Not one dime.” -- August 13, 2012 in Boone, IA

Posted by John Kartch on Wednesday, August 22, 2012 1:21 PM EDT

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