Barack Obama is currently campaigning on the promise of a middle class tax cut, just like candidate Bill Clinton did in 1992. Clinton exhorted that the top 2% of earners pay 'just a little bit more' to make this tax cut a reality. 43% of the people bought it, and Clinton won the presidency. Isn't it similar to the case of Obama?
In February 1993, President Bill Clinton addressed the country by saying "I've worked harder on this than anything I've ever done in my life, and while I said I'd like to lower your taxes, I can't." He then increased federal income taxes on all four brackets. Later that year, the Senate faced the issue and with a 50-50 deadlock, Al Gore cast the deciding vote. It determined the vote for increasing taxes was going to pass. And they got a chance to take out more money forcibly from the citizens as compulsory taxation.
Barack Obama has also used same tactics of social welfare.
I feel that maybe more americans now just don't really care, and are letting media biases determine their thoughts and actions. There are plenty of first time voters in this election that are eager for the chance to vote against the Republican Party, and will obviously have no recollection of the "big lie" Clinton played on the masses.
How far into an Obama presidency will he retract his middle class tax cut promise? Will he wait several weeks, a few weeks like Clinton, or will he renounce it before he even takes office? It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
How can anyone trust that Obama will keep his word about tax cuts, when he also has so many expensive programs on his agenda? How can anyone trust what is being presented in Obama's campaign?