Joe Biden's Great Big Tobacco-Tax Hike

President Joe Biden lobbies for Democratic possibility for legislative head of Virginia Terry McAuliffe at a meeting in Arlington, Va., October 26, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

On the menu today: President Biden is going to break his frequently rehashed guarantee to never increase government rates on anybody making under $400,000 each year by multiplying the charges on cigarettes and climbing charges steeply on all

Other tobacco items; the Pentagon cautions that ISIS-K in Afghanistan could have the ability to assault the United States in just a half year, and that it has the aim to do as such; and noticing that "closing down the infection," as the president swore, requires the most tension ridden Americans to acknowledge that the pandemic consummation.

A Tax on the Poor

"No one making under 400,000 bucks would have their duties raised, period, bingo." – Joe Biden, meet on CNBC's Squawk Box, May 22, 2020.

"Under my arrangement, on the off chance that you make under $400,000, you will not pay a solitary penny more in charges. You have my statement on it." – Joe Biden, November 2, 2020.

"I give you my statement as a Biden: If you make under $400,000 per year, I'll never raise your assessments one penny." – President Biden, September 26, 2021.