Posted on 05/01/2008 3:34:51 AM PDT by decimon
“There are little treats like a summer gas-tax holiday”
Tax cuts are called increased spending by the left.
“New user fees could pay for the gas-tax holiday, McCain adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin said.”
Then what’s the point?
If Juan McCain were any more Teddy Kennedy than he is right now, we'd have to drag the local lakes and rivers nightly for the waterlogged corpses of his luckless dinner dates.
Here, I'll be crystal clear about to pay for them: if I had a dollar for every time a RAT made promises that cost billions of dollars and the AP and the rest of the MSM did not get their panties in a wad about it as they are with McCain's promises, I could pay for them out of my own pocket.
I'm not defending McCain. I still can't even see myself voting for him. I'm just so fed up with this double standard and hypocrisy.
Then what’s the point?
Don't you understand government economics? Here, watch this...I place this pea under this shell and move it around with these other two shells. If you know under which shell is the pea then you understand government economics. ;-)
These are tax cuts, not spending programs.
From the article: “The difference? Unlike the Democrats, McCain has made a career of trying to cut spending.”
That is a good point. If the Dems don’t promise spending cuts then they can’t be derided for not proposing spending cuts.
And McCain makes a good point in saying the Pubs didn’t deliver what people elected them to do - cut spending. For all I know he may be as guilty as any but the point is valid, nonetheless.
From the article:
"Those are just the tax cuts. McCain also proposed a new mortgage refinancing program for struggling homeowners that could cost the government $3 billion to $10 billion. He proposed to suspend federal gas taxes for the summer months at a cost of $8 billion to $10 billion.
"And McCain has several proposals whose costs are unknown, such as his pledge to give all veterans a plastic card to get medical treatment anywhere they choose, a new student loan program and tax write-offs for companies that provide Internet service to rural areas."
The article covers McCain's spending promises as well as his proposed tax cuts.
“Don’t you understand government economics? Here, watch this...I place this pea under this shell and move it around with these other two shells”
You forgot “by the way, you have to pay for the pea... and the shell... and my time to move them around... and the right to watch them, AND pick up all the costs to replant the field that the pea came from, including gasoline, insurance, registrations, fees, licenses and processing.”
Good One!!!
The shell game also allows McCain to please the peeved-at-the-pump crowd, who naively think they’re getting a tax break, while the government doesn’t actually give up any money. Mr. Doubl.., uh, I mean Straight Talk can pander with the best of ‘em.
Here in 2008 it appears that he has taken massive doses of something that has really scrambled his egg.
Tell me again how this rube is any different than those other two stooges.
The Ship of State (and the world) is going to Hell in a hand basket, and we've got the three stooges trying to become captain.
Man the life rafts!
LLS
So who is writing his words, lord McCain has already said, even after years and years on that ‘Commerce Committee’ he knows nothing about economy? Maybe he plans on doing to the economy what was done to HP???? Would he make his BADDDD CEO salary capping retroactive????
LLS
McCainomics=more big Government and more giveaways.
As Gomer Pyle would say: Surprise,surprise,surprise!
Nice to know we have three Libs running for President. Pick one.
China will laugh all of the way to the Hong Kong banks, knowing they will be lending us this money for 30 years.
McCain has no particular agenda. As of now I plan to pull the lever for McCain for the same reason I did for Bush. Because the alternative will be that much worse.
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