So what did he do once he took office? He raised 117 different fees imposed by his department -- some of them as much as six times what they were.
He and his GOP friends will be quick to tell you that this was not a raising of taxes. But that is just a game of semantics. Anytime the government takes money from a citizen, it is a tax -- and calling it a fee doesn't change that.
The truth is that Republicans don't mind raising taxes at all. They just want to do it under-the-table -- by calling it something other than a tax raise. But that makes little difference to the citizen who has to pay more of his hard-earned money to the government. To him, it's a tax raise. And it's just one more way in which the Republicans lie to the voters. "We won't raise taxes" simply means they won't call the raise a tax.