Who Are They Screwing First?
The Pelosi-Obama-Reid Assault on Middle America
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).
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:
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.
The very people they said they’d protect from higher taxes.