No, it was NOT true, and as a political issue, it was rejected by the voters.
Again, 4% on income over $250K is NO BIG DEAL. To hear the 'baggers bitch about it, one would think that they were cannibalizing their first born alive. Not that one in a hundred of them would even pay a dime more in taxes.
Rejected in the polls and rejected at the ballot box.
Rejected twice at each place.
I brought him up as the best know of the teabagger doofi.
His 15 minutes of fame gone, he now fades away.
By the way, Joe the Ex Plumber never revealed whom he voted for, which ticked McCain off immensely.