No proposal to end taxes for seniors making less than $50,000

PolitiFact by Angie Drobnic Holan | Apr. 16, 2009 (News Analysis)
Barack Obama Campaign Promise No. 24

President Obama's campaign pledge to end taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 has fallen off the radar.

It wasn't part of the tax cuts in the economic stimulus bill, also known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It wasn't in Obama's first budget outline, which was approved by Congress on April 2, 2009. And it's not part of any proposed legislation that we can find.

Today, on Tax Day, Obama gave a speech in which he ... Full Story »

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 by Derek Hawkins - Apr. 16, 2009

PolitiFact makes the bold assertion that President Obama has broken his promise to eliminate the income tax for seniors making less than $50K a year. They provide extensive factual evidence and cite several primary sources to support this claim. The story could benefit by including a narrative or anecdotal evidence to elucidate the information -- but this isn't PolitiFact's aim. Overall, a responsible, transparent report.

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