Obama doesn't intend to increase taxes on the middle class. The people who are promoting that notion are lying. He intends to reduce the taxes on the middle class as well as eliminate the capital gains tax for small businesses (both of which will benefit me and JtS). And if he puts more of the money we will still be paying in taxes into programs that will actually benefit the majority of taxpayers (and he does), I have absolutely no problem with that.

It's not programs that benefit the taxpayers that are ballooning the deficit. It's the wasteful and corrupt use of our money to enrich the cronies of people like Bush and McCain - the war profiteers and big business (both of whom are being subsidized by the middle class taxpayers, at the expense of their own standard of living).