Axelrod: Obama Won't Rule Out Middle-Class Tax Hike

all this man knows how to do is raise taxs i say impeach this idiot.

The change he was campaigning about was actually the change from a dollar you will have left after the taxes he will need to impose for his grandiose plans. About 47% of us saw this coming. What were the rest of you thinking?

Another campaign promise biting the dust.

I don't know why people want to trust the government with health care. If the government can't even handle Medicare, and Medicaid, and even the food that comes into this country, why would they be able to succeed at healthcare.

I was no fan of Bush and all his lies and distortions. Clearly his successor is also very good at this. Next week we'll find out that Obama will have a tax on cattle and a penalty for people who actually have a little disposable income at the end of the month.

public option is what the majority of people want. The Republican Party is going down in flames with this issue leading the way. The Republican Party will continue to shrink because family issues begin with having your health first then having a job. What ever happend to the saying "at least you have your health" the Republicans want to take that from you as well! Anything to make a freaking buck....

With the exception of numerous minor road and bridge construction/repair, the stimulus plan has made little progress with spending less than ten percentage of the total fund. The problem is that those in charge or making decisions are politician, most of which are lawyers (or Nobel prize winners) who know very little about engineering construction and planning. It would be another big disaster and huge waste of money if these politician are put in charge of health care plan.

lmao@GeorgiePorgie
This was the plan all along.. Tax hikes on everything we use daily.. everything we buy daily...and YOU knew of this and would never comment during the campaign

Maybe a middle class tax increase is where the American people will "draw a line in the sand".

Its refreshing to have a president who does not let ideology get in the way of governing. I am no Democrat, but it was irritating that our last president did not adequately address our economic, environmental and healthcare problems because he would have to bend his ideology a little. The worse case was when Bush vetoed the children's healthcare bill. Obama has a lot to clean up. Even if it means a few more taxes, I am glad he is actually doing something.

For that matter why not just fly sick people to Mexico where they get good quality health care for a fraction of the cost? The airfare would be worth it.

If this CAP and TRADE passes through the Senate, we will already be seeing a Tax on the middle class. With higher taxes on the Corporations, that is a tax to the middle class. "Everything" rolls down hill, people. At least "now" he is going to hit us all with something 'called' a tax. What did you all expect? What did you all expect?

William McGill you didn't read the article did you?

Hey Mike, if Mexico's heath care is so good, why don't you go there and try it out. Company I work for has a plant in Mexico.. you don't know what you are talking about.

"good healthcare is available for the highest bidders (just like the U.S., right?)."
That is the Health Care given to rich foreigners, Mike... not "MIDDLE" or the "LOWER" classes of Mexico.
The RICH will allways get better health care. PERIOD. You truly think OBAMA will change that here? Or, will he lower the standards here and more and more wealthy will go to these same places for health care?

"With higher taxes on the Corporations, that is a tax to the middle class. "Everything" rolls down hill, people." - If everything rolls down hill where do the corporate profits go? When oil company profits go up does it result in lower prices at the gas pump or bigger CEO bonuses?

Sadly, Doctors in this country are seeing a big dollar value to move their
Offices and expertise out of this country. They can hire workers cheaper, they can stop worrying about the paperwork, insurance and lawsuits. You think it is bad now, just wait.

It is wonderful to have such an honest man in the White House. And, it is, after all, patriotic to pay taxes. Hope and Change forever. If it lives and breathes, tax it.

I did not say that PROFITS rolled down hill.. COSTS do!
If the owner of a Company 'NETS' 500k a year, the Gov. raises his taxes.. he will just give himself a raise to still net 500k a year.

Yet another weasel way out of a campaign promise. I can always tell when Obama is lying - it's whenever he sucks air in and expel it with a sound. I bet that he would raise taxes, and the MSM will do all the twisting and turning to enable this empty suit to justify the raising of taxes for those under $250K.

Obama is making this coutrny unaffordable for companies and people in general. This is freedom? Being tax on everything we do? The walls are closing in on us and soon we will be no different than the tyranny we have fought against for over 2 hundred years. Impeach this idiot!

"Or, will he lower the standards here and more and more wealthy will go to these same places for health care?" - U.S. standards, by your own admission, are already lower for working and middle class folks in the U.S. That is why we have the lowest life expectancies and highest infant death rate among technologically advanced countries. Do you want U.S. healthcare to continue its downward slide in quality and increased polarization of access?

Mark from Atlanta - we don't have the lowest life expectancies because of our healthcare system, but because our citizens don't take care of themselves.

Mark, I can afford healthcare...I don't make 250K+. It's not the governments responsibility to provide health care to me and my family, it's MY responsility to provide it for MY family. If you want to sell yourself and your freedom for free healthcare, then by all means, do it! Better yet, get free health care, get in welfare and live in government housing...and you'll be free, right?

"Obama is making this coutrny unaffordable for companies and people in general" - Where have you been for the past 30 years. The decline of the middle class cannot even be totally blamed on Bush Jr. It goes back to Clinton/Reagan and "free trade" and the outsourcing of manufacturing and jobs. "Unaffordable for companies?" They have turning tail and running out for years.