So nobody believed O's "no tax on middle class"

Yet another admission that the verbal disengenuousness, the rhetorical slight of hand, hell, the flat-out, bald-faced lie that he wouldn't raise taxes on anyone "making under $250,000," was just that (via Instapundit):

JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Obama’s Not-So-Secret Plan to Raise Taxes. “Does President Obama have a secret plan to raise taxes on middle-class Americans — and,well, pretty much everybody else — with a European-style, value-added tax? Actually, it’s not such a big secret. . . . Obama’s campaign promise to not raise taxes on households making less than $250,000 a year was always considered a joke here inside the Beltway.”

http://blogs.reuters.com/james-pethokoukis/2009/09/30/obamas-not-so-secret-plan-to-raise-taxes/