Obama's proposal is truely not a tax hike. A true tax hike is when you pay 8.25% in taxes, and he raises it to 10%. If president bush cuts the taxes of higher earners with without cutting all tax brackets, then is not helping everyone. It is only helping those people at the top. I don't care about the higher income earners because they don't care about us. Why should they get a tax break when the lower income earners don't get any thing. I make around 70,000.