Middle-class Americans would have had been dealt a blow through an automatic tax hike.
Obama is cleverly avoiding specifics, largely because the potential tax hike could be enormous.
Making people pay what they already owe under current law doesn't count as a tax hike.
That would mean a tax hike on every American who gets a paycheck next year.
On January 1st, if nothing is done, everybody here is going to get a tax hike.
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If a gains tax hike is in the offing, you'll have time to sell.
It is equivalent to a huge tax hike, greatly affecting those who least can afford it.
The efficiency cost of a tax hike depends most on its permanent effect on people's incomes.
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Its main opposition Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) supported the tax hike in August.
It pushed through the sales tax hike and Mr Noda said Japan should join the TPP.
And then he went out and secured a regressive payroll tax hike for everyone.
But doing so to raise revenues is just as much a tax hike as raising tax rates.
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Letting them expire will impose an enormous tax hike on what may still be a weak economy.
But preventing a tax hike on the middle class -- that's only the beginning, that's just starters.
Similarly, California is letting its temporary sales tax hike which took effect in 2009 expire July 1.
The SNP has been making that case in opposition to the UK government's tax hike this year.
AMT, but they hate the idea of losing mortgage-interest relief, which seems akin to a tax hike.
Under my plan, 97% of small business owners would avoid getting hit with any income tax hike whatsoever.
For instance, while they did suggest a 15-cent-a-gallon gas tax hike, they avoided any major new energy tax.
And their share of the total tax hike would nearly double to a bit more than 7 percent.
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Blackstone makes a convincing point that a significant tax hike could stunt perhaps the country's most lucrative industry.
The state would raise this money from property taxes, triggering the largest property-tax hike in the city's history.
According to the Associated Press, the regime caved in to the merchants demands and cancelled the tax hike.
Dividend tax hike or no dividend tax hike, the demographic-driven demand for income is not likely to change.
And despite a tax hike, the company refuses to budge, claiming that it will not change its recipe.
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Such was the incentive to beat the impending tax hike that investors seem to have grabbed every available gain.
The tax hike crowd is trying to confuse tax hikes with tax reform.
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Would some sort of cap on tax preferences be palatable to Republicans when a tax hike clearly is not?
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Economists tell us that this tax hike on working families could actually cost us well over a million jobs.
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