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Topic: McCain, Taxes, and Saying Anything to Win
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| UGoGirl | Posted – 4/28/2008 12:38:25 AM | show profile A nice article by Krugman on McCain in the NYTimes: ******** Bush Made Permanent ...a look at what Mr. McCain says about taxes shows the same combination of irresponsibility and double-talk that, back in 2000, foreshadowed the character of the Bush administration. ...Mr. McCain has said nothing realistic about how he would close the giant budget gap his tax cuts would produce ? a gap so large that eliminating it would require cutting Social Security benefits by three-quarters, eliminating Medicare, or something equivalently drastic. Talking, as Mr. Holtz-Eakin does, about fighting waste and reforming procurement doesn?t cut it. ...Mr. McCain?s plan is far more irresponsible than anything the Democrats are proposing, and the difference in degree is so large as to be a difference in kind. Mr. McCain?s budget talk simply doesn?t make sense. So what are Mr. McCain?s real intentions? If truth be told, the McCain tax plan doesn?t seem to embody any coherent policy agenda. Instead, it looks like a giant exercise in pandering ? an attempt to mollify the G.O.P.?s right wing, and never mind if it makes any sense. The impression that Mr. McCain?s tax talk is all about pandering is reinforced by his proposal for a summer gas tax holiday ? a measure that would, in fact, do little to help consumers, although it would boost oil industry profits. More and more, Mr. McCain sounds like a man who will say anything to become president. NYTimes, April 28 |
| oceanvue | Posted – 4/28/2008 7:30:48 AM | show profile More and more, Mr. McCain sounds like a man who will say anything to become president. Since "more and more" has been going on for years and years, the duplicity of this man must have reached astronomical levels by now. A summer gas tax holiday wouldn't cost a fraction of what he's determined to spend daily in Iraq for the next 100 years. So much for any genuine wish to end worthless spending. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 4/28/2008 9:44:57 AM | show profile That's actually my biggest fear with McCain, his warmongering and all the impacts of that. |
| PluckyPane | Posted – 4/28/2008 10:50:22 AM | show profile more and more he's saying stuff to meet the approval of the republican neocons. and the way the dems are fracturing themselves, they are actually handing the presidency to another republican. i think the only thing that will work at this point is an obama/clinton ticket versus mccain, preferably with a recycled member of the bush administration. |
| chucho | Posted – 4/28/2008 12:00:40 PM | show profile If America votes for McCain America deserves McCain. |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 4/29/2008 2:26:04 PM | show profile Has anyone bothered asking McCain how he plans to finance Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and the give-away to the rich? Or the fact that the piddling so-called "savings" from cutting gas taxes is a fraction of the rocketing gas prices in just the past month alone? |
