CNSNews.com - White House Spokesman 'Not Sure' If Obama’s Health Proposal Increases Taxes on Those Earning Less Than $250,000--And Thus Violates Obama's Tax Pledge

CNSNews.com - White House Spokesman 'Not Sure' If Obama’s Health Proposal Increases Taxes on Those Earning Less Than $250,000--And Thus Violates Obama's Tax Pledge: "Washington (CNSNews.com) – White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he is 'not sure' if President Obama's new health care proposal calls for increasing the Medicare payroll tax on households earning less than $250,000 a year, which would be an apparent breach of the president's pledge not to raise taxes on people earning less than that amount.

When he was running for president, Obama pledged that he would not increase taxes on families earning less than $250,000 per year. “I can make a firm pledge: Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase--not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes,” he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12, 2008."