GET INVOLVED



Email     Print

Who Are They Screwing First? The Pelosi-Obama-Reid Assault on Middle America

 

Who Are They Screwing First?
The Pelosi-Obama-Reid Assault on Middle America
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The 111th Congress is less than a week old, and already the first tax increase has been put on the table. 
 
What:              
            A 61 cents per pack, or 156 percent, increase in the federal excise tax on cigarettes
            to fund a proposed $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance
            Program (S-CHIP).
 
Who Will Be Burdened?
           
            The middle- and low-income Americans they said they will not raise taxes on:
  • 55 percent of smokers are “working poor”
  • One in four smokers live below the poverty line
  • On average, smokers, whose median income is a little more than $36,000, make about 30 percent less than non-smokers.
Remember the Quote?
“If you make less than a quarter of a million dollars a year, you will not see a single dime of your taxes go up.” (President-elect Obama in the October 7 presidential debate)
 
Yet who are they screwing first…?
The very people they said they’d protect from higher taxes.  

 

blog comments powered by Disqus
Designed and Developed by Braynard Group, Inc.
hidden