Sarah Palin Was Right #1: House Dems Seek Massive Tax Increase

From CNSNews.com:

Despite a still-lagging U.S. economy and rising unemployment rate, House Democrats announced late Friday that they will seek a massive increase in federal income taxes to help pay for the national health-care reform proposal that President Obama is urging Congress to enact this summer.

House Ways and Means Chairman Charles Rangel (D.-N.Y. ) revealed late Friday afternoon that House Democrats will seek to increase income taxes by $540 billion.

The move, which had been discussed earlier in the week by House Democrats, broke in an Associated Press story that was published at 4:14 PM Eastern Daylight time on Friday afternoon.
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Releasing news late on a Friday afternoon is a traditional public relations tactic used by politicians seeking to limit the news coverage of an item they nonetheless need to release.

Not that it's any surprise to conservatives and libertarians that Democrats want to raise taxes. But Sarah Palin, while campaigning as the 2008 Republican Party vice presidential candidate, often warned that if the Dems got control of the federal government, they would make it bigger and raise taxes. Here's an excerpt from a news item dated October 27, 2008:

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says Democrats would raise taxes and "punish hard work."

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Palin told a cheering crowd in Leesburg, outside Washington, that Obama would raise taxes while she and Republican hopeful John McCain would cut them and freeze government spending. She also warned that voting for Democrats in the Nov. 4 election could give the party too much power.

So essentially the Democrats want to raise taxes on Americans who don't want them raised to finance an ObamaCare scheme that Americans want no part of. Take one of Doc Obama's bitter blue pills and bend over. You may feel some discomfort...

Another excerpt, this one from an August 2 report:

During his presidential campaign, Obama repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime." But the simple reality remains that his ambitious overhaul of how Americans receive health care -- promised without increasing the federal deficit -- must be paid for.

Everything former Governor Palin warned about during the 2008 campaign if the other side won has come to pass or is just around the corner. How's all that hope and change working out for you, independents? Buyer's remorse set in yet?

- JP