Another Lie: Obama Voted To Raise Taxes 94 Times

McCain’s campaign and the Repubulican National Committee keep putting this out there.  It’s a lie.  FactCheck.org breaks down these “tax increase” votes”

• Twenty-three were for measures that would have produced no tax increase at all; they were against proposed tax cuts.

• Seven of the votes were in favor of measures that would have lowered taxes for many, while raising them on a relative few, either corporations or affluent individuals.

• Eleven votes the GOP is counting would have increased taxes on those making more than $1 million a year – in order to fund programs such as Head Start and school nutrition programs, or veterans’ health care.

• The GOP sometimes counted two, three and even four votes on the same measure. We found their tally included a total of 17 votes on seven measures, effectively padding their total by 10.

• The majority of the 94 votes – 53 of them, including some mentioned above – were on budget measures, not tax bills, and would not have resulted in any tax change. Four other votes were non-binding motions related to conference report negotiations.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.