Oct 16th, 2008 | survey

Which candidate will raise your taxes?


The top line numbers in the new CBS/New York Times poll are pretty stunning, but what really stood out for me was this number:

[W]hich candidate will raise your taxes? Respondents, by 51% to 46%, say it's McCain.
That's staggering. The Republican party has spent the last twenty years dogmatically clinging to a pledge not to raise taxes and claiming, with every waking breath, that their Democratic opponents will raise taxes. And since 1992, not a single Republican politician at the federal level has voted for a tax increase. The last tax increase passed by Congress--in 1993--passed without a single Republican vote.

And yet 51% of voters think that McCain is more likely to raise their taxes. That's a testament to 1) how completely lacking in credibility both the GOP and John McCain are right now, and 2) McCain's decision to put forward one of the worst health care plans ever endorsed by a major party candidate.
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More:  http://www.anonymousliberal.com/2008/10/republican-political-malpractice.html




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Philgtaylor
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Australia

posted Oct 18th, 2008 at 22:16 CDT

So all you people believe that Obama will raise your taxes?-Let me talk about LONG TERM. The US government deficit is now $10,000,000.000.000.00, or $80,000 for each American. This will have to be paid off with interest. So EACH AMERICAN has a small mortgage on top of all the other debt that they have been encouraged to take out over the past 40 years. And if it is not paid off, then interest rates will forcce it  far HIGHER. You will  be paying far more in the next 20 years and your children will be forced to pay more and your grandchildren will be forced to pay far more and your great grandchildren. The deficit should be renamed the "birth tax" because that is what it does- it forces a massive debt onto tbe next generations. It is like original sin, 21st century style. You are welcoming all newborns into your country with $80,000 worth of debt.

Ang
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Texas, United States

posted Oct 17th, 2008 at 12:04 CDT

It all depends on your deductions.

 
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