Obama Advisor Squirms and Stammers at Health Care Hearing

During his testimony at a Jan. 26 House Ways & Means Committee hearing on the new healthcare law, Austan Goolsbee squirmed and obfuscated while repeatedly denying an inconvenient truth about Obamacare: the law contains numerous tax hikes on those making less than $250,000 per year -- a violation of President Obama's central campaign promise not to sign into law "any form of tax increase" on these families.

Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) simply asked Goolsbee, -- chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers -- whether a series of tax hikes in Obamacare were indeed tax hikes.

Below are the cryptic and dishonest replies from Dr. Goolsbee when asked whether each of the provisions in Obamacare were indeed a tax increase (Click here to watch the video clip):

Rep. Tiberi: A new tax on individuals who did not purchase government approved health insurance?

Austan Goolsbee: uh- I don't think that's an accurate way to describe it, no.

Tiberi: Not a new tax?

Goolsbee: I don't think that's an accurate way.