Whether McCain would be better on taxes than Obama depends on your prediction about what McCain would do in office.
You seem comfortable making that prediction based on his most recent statements. I’m not. I think he’ll play it by ear and do whatever seems politically expedient.
He’s promised to eliminate the deficit by 2013. There’s not nearly enough money in earmarks to do that, and Congress won’t go along with gutting entitlement programs. Therefore, to keep his promise, he’d have to let most of the tax cuts lapse.
What he’d do would depend on his guess about whether voters were more concerned over taxes or the deficit.
I’m extremely confortable than McCain will be better than Obama on taxes. Thats a no-brainer. Obama is a marxist.