“I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs. If the money does not come in there to pay for these programs, we will cut other government spending or we will slow down the phase-in of the programs. I am not gonna raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs.”
- Bill Clinton, October 19, 1992
“But families earning as little as $20,000 a year — members of the “forgotten middle class” whose taxes he promised during his campaign to cut — will also be asked to send more dollars to Washington under the President’s plan.”
- New York Times, February 18, 1993
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