Obama’s Pledge Up In Smoke

 

It has not even been 100 days in office and we are already seeing President Obama breaking pledges he had made in his historic race to the White House.  If you are unaware of what I am writing in regards to then the chances of you not being a smoker is pretty high as the largest increase in tobacco taxes took effect despite Obama’s promise not to raise taxes of any kind on families earning under $250,000 or individuals under $200,000. 

I can make a firm pledge…Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase.  Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes…you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime…”— Barack Obama, Sept. 12, 2008, Dover, N.H.

According to reports Government and private research has found that smoking rates are higher among people of low income.  I have to wonder what the lower income smoking supporters of Obama are thinking right now.  The answer is they are thinking nothing because the media is not calling for the public persecutions of Obama enlarge part to the liberal media bias in our society. 

 

Unfortunately at this point in time I am feeling the costs associated with increasing the cost of cigarettes but who was not prepared for this?  The truth of the matter is Obama will continue to break the pledges he so passionately campaigned upon because he is a salesman, he told the American public what they wanted to hear and now due to the ignorance of the majority we will face the repercussions of that frightening decision.

 

Though I wonder how the low income smokers will cope as smoking is an addiction and when it comes to paying bills or buying a pack of cigarettes many people will set their priorities on the cancer sticks.  This is not an assumption this is a reality and for that we can proudly thank Obama for making the poor poorer.