After Denying Obama Would Raise Taxes During Campaign, NYT Calls for Increases
September 4, 2009 by Clay Waters
A long lead editorial in Friday's New York Times, "Once and Future Taxes," called on Barack Obama to accept the inevitable and raise taxes to fight the $9 trillion budget deficit. Does this mean Times editors and reporters will now apologize to John McCain for claiming that Obama would only raise taxes on "the rich"?
The Times made a full-throated call for a broad tax hike:
politics, taxes, Democrats, liberalism, left wing, philosophy, ideology, news media, bias, hypocrisy,