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Richardson not ObamaOriginally Posted by BlooMoose
I will look for something. NM governer Bill Richardson weighed in the most recently lowering the "magic" number to $120K/yr. I watched it on the news but I'm not really good at finding things later. I'll look.
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Q: Can you make an absolute, read-my-lips pledge that there will be no tax increases of any kind for anyone earning under $200,000 a year?
CLINTON: I will let the taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year go back to the rates that they were paying in the 1990s.
Q: Senator Obama, would you take the same pledge? No tax increases on people under $250,000?
OBAMA: I not only have pledged not to raise their taxes, I've been the first candidate in this race to specifically say I would cut their taxes. We are going to offset the payroll tax, the most regressive of our taxes, so that families who are middle-income individuals making $75,000 a year or less, that they would get a tax break so that families would see up to $1,000 worth of relief.
Q: You both have now just taken this pledge on people under $250,000 and $200,000. OBAMA: Well, it depends on how you calculate it. But it would be between $200,000 and $250,000.
IMHO this was way back in April and he has repeatedly been quoted as saying 250k since then. The policy has just been firmed up since thenOriginally Posted by BlooMoose
: During the debates (April 2008), here's an exerpt from the transcript (questions for Clinton and Obama) - http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Tax_Reform.htmQ: Can you make an absolute, read-my-lips pledge that there will be no tax increases of any kind for anyone earning under $200,000 a year?
CLINTON: I will let the taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year go back to the rates that they were paying in the 1990s.
Q: Senator Obama, would you take the same pledge? No tax increases on people under $250,000?
OBAMA: I not only have pledged not to raise their taxes, I've been the first candidate in this race to specifically say I would cut their taxes. We are going to offset the payroll tax, the most regressive of our taxes, so that families who are middle-income individuals making $75,000 a year or less, that they would get a tax break so that families would see up to $1,000 worth of relief.
Q: You both have now just taken this pledge on people under $250,000 and $200,000. OBAMA: Well, it depends on how you calculate it. But it would be between $200,000 and $250,000.
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Well publicized gaffe. Even says so in the description of the video. He corrects himself moments later.Originally Posted by BlooMoose
can see Biden himself here lowering the limite $150K http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8sWT_SSQwE
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Thanks a bunch, I appreciate your effort in finding the source but I just don't see it. Maybe I just drank too much of the kool aid Originally Posted by BlooMoose
just trying to locate where the numbers originated...