On health care, John McCain promises a tax credit,” an announcer says in one of Obama’s new ads, over images of families examining their bills. “But here’s what he won’t tell you: McCain would make you pay taxes on your health benefits, taxing your health care for the first time ever, raising costs for employers who offer health care so your coverage could be reduced or dropped completely. You won’t find one word about it on his website.
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Description of one of four Obama campaign ads wherein he explains that Americans should vote for him because he won’t tax healthcare, but McCain will. Someone should have proofread the ads because it seems like he accidentally confused ‘important stuff I promise not to do as President’ with ‘stuff I’ll probably go ahead and do.’ I want my money back:
‘The White House seems to be retreating from President Barack Obama’s campaign promise that he would not raise taxes on families making less than $250,000. Under persistent questioning from ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Sunday, Obama senior adviser David Axelrod declined to restate the vow and left open the possibility that the president might sign health care reform legislation that taxes high-cost, employer-provided insurance plans which some middle-class families currently receive tax free.’
8 months ago.