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The contradictions came flying even in his read-my-lips moment: “If your family earns less than $250,000 a year,” he said, “you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime.” But as recently as the previous paragraph the president vowed to “restore a sense of fairness and balance to our tax code by finally ending the tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.” And a few paragraphs before that, he called for a “market-based cap on carbon pollution.” So: You will not see your federal taxes increased a single dime…unless you own a company that emits carbon or hires some of those dastardly Koreans.
