Obama's lie: 'I didn't raise taxes once'

Shortly before Sundays' Super Bowl, Fox News' Bill O'Reilly interviewed President Obama. He told the O'Reilly Factor host, "I didn't raise taxes once."

The Wall Street Journal points out that since January 20, 2009, the president signed into law a $27 billion "fee" on pharmaceutical firms, $20 billion is what medical device manufacturers will have to pay next year, and health insurance firms will begin paying $60 billion in 2014. Those costs will be passed on to consumers, meaning you. The Journal left out the ObamaCare tanning tax and new cigarette taxes in their critique.

Up until his party's "shellacking" three months ago, Obama was against extending the Bush tax cuts, which are now set to expire in 2013--and the president wants them to expire.

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