September 25, 2012 10:43AM # ‘I Haven’t Raised Taxes’ By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) --- SHARE Why am I only hearing about President Obama’s gob-smacking “I haven’t raised taxes” claim today, and from *[Reason](http://reason.com/archives/2012/09/24/obamas-fact-challenged-tax-claim)*? > On CBS News’s “60 Minutes” Sunday night, President Obama said, “Taxes are lower on families than they’ve been probably in the last 50 years. So I haven’t raised taxes.” > > > As of Monday morning, neither the Washington Post’s Pinocchio-awarding Fact-Checker, nor the Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck​.org, nor the Tampa Bay Times’ Pulitzer-Prize-winning Poli​ti​fact​.com had risen to this opportunity… Unbelievable. I just checked those websites, and they still haven’t. Fortunately, Ira Stoll [has](http://reason.com/archives/2012/09/24/obamas-fact-challenged-tax-claim). He leaves out a number of taxes President Obama has enacted, though, including raising the Medicare payroll tax on high-income earners, applying the Medicare payroll tax to *non-payroll income* for high-income earners, limiting the tax exclusion for flexible spending accounts, increasing the penalties on certain health savings account withdrawals, the “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health plans… ##### Related Tags [Government and Politics](https://www.cato.org/government-politics), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).