Was Joe Right?

Remember Joe the Plumber?

During the fall presidential campaign conservatives like Joe Wurzelbacher warned that Barack Obama would raise taxes on average Americans. "Your new tax plan's going to tax me more, isn't it?" Wurzelbacher asked Obama directly.

Obama and his liberal defenders vociferously insisted he wouldn't raise taxes on anybody but a handful of rich folks. Many tore into Wurzelbacher for being a shill and a stooge and a complete idiot, too.

Well.

An AP analysis finds "Obama's Tax Pledge Unrealistic." Obama already has signed a measure raising cigarette taxes 62 cents a pack. The cap-and-trade bill passed by the House would raise the average household's energy bill by $175 a year or more. Other Obama-backed measures that would limit tax deductions and increase a host of business taxes would raise hundreds of billions, not all of it from the richest of the rich.

That seems to contradict the president's promise that he would not raise "your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

Was Joe the Plumber on to something?