Friday, February 19, 2010

White House begins groundwork to avoid blame for tax increases | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

White House begins groundwork to avoid blame for tax increases | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment: "President Obama on Thursday indicated that tax increases on people who make less than $250,000 a year will be on the table when a deficit commission makes its recommendations later this year on how to resolve the nation’s fiscal imbalances.

“Everything’s on the table. That’s how this thing is going to work,” Obama said Thursday, moments after signing an executive order creating the 18-member commission.

But the White House has already begun to lay the groundwork for their argument that such a recommendation by the panel should not be blamed on the president, who vowed during his campaign not to raise taxes on Americans earning less than $250,000.

“The president will not sit on the commission and the options they present will not necessarily reflect administration policy,” a White House official told The Daily Caller."

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