38 CommentsJohn McCain's Top 10 Class-Warfare Arguments Against Tax Cuts

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[NavVet]

1. “I don’t think the governor’s tax cut is too big—it’s just misplaced. Sixty percent of the benefits from his tax cuts go to the wealthiest 10% of Americans—and that’s not the kind of tax relief that Americans need. … Gov. Bush wants to spend the entire surplus on tax cuts. I don’t believe the wealthiest 10% of Americans should get 60% of the tax breaks. I think the lowest 10% should get the breaks. …

“I’m not giving tax cuts for the rich.”

—Discussion with media, reported in “Bush, McCain Snip Over Tax Cut Plans,” Los Angeles Times, and “GOP Rivals Bicker on Taxes,” Washington Post, Jan. 5, 2000.

[NavVet]

This exposes McCain's lie when he claims that he only opposed tax cuts because they were not accompanied by spending cuts. He is a class warfare liberal no different than Hillary or Huckabee.

[bluebeak]

If Fred beats McCain and Huckabee in SC, then a knockout blow is delivered to both McCain and Huckabee (otherwise, we are stuck with a RINO in November). It is up to SC.

[WOSG]

” McCain’s a class warfare liberal no different than Hillary or Huckabee.”

PING - Proamnesty-antiBushtaxcuts-proCO2caps-CFR-RINO John McCain delenda est!

[EEDUDE]

“McCain said: “I think the lowest 10% should get the breaks. …”

The lowest 10% of earners don’t PAY any income taxes. They’ve already gotten a “break”.

Everybody should have to pay some income taxes so they have a vested interest in seeing taxes reduced and government spending kept low.

The way things are, close to 50% of Americans pay so little that it’s not a concern to them.

[docbnj]

EEDUDE is right.

Now why are the “war heroes” who make such political hay of their experiences generally wartime losers? JFK lost his PT boat, if I remember correctly. Geo. H. W. Bush was shot down, and had to be fished out of the Pacific. John McCain got shot down also, and was captured.

It would be interesting to have a military hero who succeeded: maybe someone who shot down the enemy, or won a battle somewhere.

Crashing your boat or plane, or suffering as a POW of the barbaric communists makes us sympathetic, but it doesn’t make the unfortunate veteran magically get wisdom.

[Ethrane]

John McCain, as recent as 2004: “I believe my party has gone astray,” McCain said [in April], singling out GOP stands on environmental issues and racial set-asides.

“I think the Democratic Party is a fine party, and I have no problems with it, in their views and their philosophy,” he said.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

If people earn less than a given amount of money, they shouldn’t need to file a tax return, except to get their tax rebate from withholding.

However, it would be interesting to see, with let’s say a $100 million tax break “solely for the poor”, if it was given *solely* by exempting those at the bottom end of the tax scale, *how much more* they could earn than they do now, and still not pay taxes.

That is, say the limit is $10,000 for an individual. If you earn less than that, you pay no taxes. With a $100m tax break, how much more could you earn? $10,100? $10,200?

And remember, that this would *save* the government money, by not having to process the tax forms of those people who made below the limit.

It would be interesting to know exactly how much benefit could be achieved with a tax cut “solely for the poor”.

[Entrepreneur]

It would be interesting to have a military hero who succeeded: maybe someone who shot down the enemy, or won a battle somewhere.

[ChessExpert]

No wonder that independents and liberals like John McCain. He sounds just like a Democrat.

[B Knotts]

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