From the Wall Street Journal online at
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...267381152.html

"....The undeniable reality is that you can't run a European-style
welfare-entitlement state without European-style levels of taxation on the
middle class (and eventually without low European-style growth and high
jobless rates). It's looking more and more like Mr. Obama's
no-middle-class-tax pledge was one of the greatest confidence tricks in
American political history."