claim: says "obamacare" is "the largest middle-class tax increase in history."
author: jeff fitzgerald
evidence_1: jul 9, 2012 ... “no, 'obamacare' isn't 'the largest tax increase in the history of the world' (in one  ... what either kevin drum, ezra klein, or the obama treasury department says. ...  the 3.8% tax on capital gains and dividend income, for example, ..... humanity  dragged itself out of the agrarian middle ages in 19th century ...
evidence_2: jul 20, 2012 ... does that translate to the biggest tax increase in american history? ... "has  imposed the largest tax increase in history on the middle class."
evidence_3: jun 28, 2012 ... ... to its taxing power,” landry said after the ruling. “this is the largest tax increase  on the poor and the middle class in the history of this country ...
evidence_4: obamacare contains 20 new or higher taxes on american families and small ...  2013): creation of a new, 3.8 percent surtax on investment income earned in ....  taxation as an area where it wanted "more efficient lawmaking” and claims that ...  this tax will undoubtedly disproportionately fall on low and middle-income  families.
evidence_5: jul 19, 2012 ... obama's tax policies are not helping middle class earners, rather they're ... ruled,  the obamacare individual mandate, requiring workers to purchase the ... that  adds up to the largest tax increase on the middle class in world history. ... a caller  to a national radio show recently said the proposal meant obama ...