Posted on 10/25/2008 6:28:57 PM PDT by Red Steel
DES MOINES — GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin told Iowans Saturday the 2008 election is a choice between Republicans' plan to cut taxes and spread opportunity and Democrats' plan to expand government and redistribute wealth.
Making her first solo campaign visit to Iowa, the Alaska governor said she hoped voters in the campaign's closing days consider the ramifications of "unchecked power" in the hands of a "big-spender, big-government agenda" with Democrats controlling the White House and Congress.
"With each passing day, the choice is getting clearer and clearer," Palin told a boisterous crowd that organizers estimated at 10,000 people. "It is the choice between a politician who puts his faith in government and a leader, John McCain, who puts his faith in you."
The McCain-Palin "pro-growth, pro-private sector" agenda calls for reducing individual and business taxes, doubling families' child tax deductions, imposing a spending freeze covering all but government's most vital functions, balancing the federal budget by the end of 2012 and "confronting" the $10 trillion national debt.
"You can count on us to follow through on our promises, Iowa, because we're the only candidates in this race with a track record of reform and we haven't just been talking the talk, John and I both have walked the walk," she said.
By contrast, she said, Democratic Sens. Barack Obama of Illinois and Joe Biden of Delaware are offering a "big government, more tax agenda" that will usher in nearly $1 trillion in increased spending funded by higher taxes.
Referring to Obama as "Barack the wealth spreader," Palin accused the Democratic presidential candidate of "not being candid with you about his tax plans."
"And, it is not mean-spirited and it is not negative campaigning to call someone out on their plans and their record and their associations," she added. "He is hiding his real agenda of redistributing your hard-earned money."
She said Obama is pushing tax credits that would allow government leaders to take more of taxpayers' money and give it to somebody else according to their priorities.
"Barack Obama calls that spreading the wealth, Joe Biden calls higher taxes patriotic, but Joe the Plumber said to him it sounded like socialism, and now is not the time to experiment with that," Palin told the cheering throng.
"Higher taxes, more government, misusing the power to tax leads to government moving into the role of some believing that government then has to take care of us," she said. "Now, they do this in other countries where the people are not free."
Accompanied by her daughters Piper and Willow, Palin acknowledged that her ticket is the underdog in the Nov. 4 election, but she noted that the race is tightening in the closing days as Republicans gird for a 10-day get-out-the-vote effort in a battleground state with seven electoral votes.
"So Iowa, if you believe in what we believe in and if you're ready to shake up Washington and clean up Wall Street, and if you're ready to get the economy back on the right track and to win the war, then John McCain and I — we're asking for your votes," she said.
Obama-Biden campaign officials in Iowa did not respond directly to Palin's comments, but issued a statement quoting former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa, who campaigned for the Democratic ticket in Iowa on Saturday.
"Barack Obama is calling for deeper cuts for middle class individual taxpayers than McCain," Leach said in the statement. "McCain is calling for corporate tax cuts including $4 billion for the petroleum industry. And so there's a difference in approach and you can make those differences and make the case one way or the other. Obama is in essence calling for new American fairness."
Palin should school 0be and the MSM on the differences between income and wealth and which 0be wants to spread around.
“Barack Obama is calling for deeper cuts for middle class individual taxpayers than McCain,”
(1) When they let Bush’s tax cuts expire, everyone’s taxes go up.
(2) 40% don’t pay income tax. Payroll tax goes into SS, so the argument that Obama’s tax “cuts” offset that are mute.
(3) It’s welfare. I’d get more under Obama’s welfare plan but I’d rather be proud to earn it.
(4) Why should people be punished for working hard and being successful? That’s what is unfair.
mute= moot lol
Attacking the Democratically controlled Congress with all of it’s ongoing problems should of frequently been done months ago! If John McCain wasn’t so “let’s get along and love each other”, then the Republicans serious chances for some major Congressional pick ups would definitely improve!
Obama wants to redistribute the wealth.
I have heard it said that if you take a rich man and give all his money to a poor man, that after a year or two, the rich man will be back on his feet, and the poor man will be broke again.
Palin and McCain want to create opportunities for Americans to achieve.
Obama wants to be the banker, and hand out money to his ‘friends’ in the game.
When his ‘friends’ blow all their money, where will we be?
“I’d get more under Obama’s welfare plan but I’d rather be proud to earn it.”
I agree.
And next we should stop electing big spender Republicans.
Punish one thing and reward a second, and the result will be less of the first and more of the second. So punishing rich people and rewarding poor people will have what effect?
It’s good that McCain and Palin are concentrating on this issue. With our budget deficits going sky high, they need to hammer home the idea that there are no fiscal conservatives among Democrats any more, just high taxing big spenders who want to put the US government on a force fed diet of taxpayer’s money.
There’s no way to “redistribute wealth” except in the very, very short run. People who get rich and stay rich have a set of priorities and talents that most people simply do not have.
There’s a foundation whose sole purpose is to help lottery winners avoid ruining their lives and ending up tens of millions of dollars in debt. People win five million dollars, and they run out and buy a five-million-dollar house.
I heard a guy from this foundation once on the radio, saying that people who win a few hundred thousand to several million almost always wind up deep in debt, and that about the only lottery winners who don’t are the ones who win so much they just can’t spend it all—fifty, a hundred, two hundred million.
There’s no way to “redistribute wealth” except in the very, very short run. People who get rich and stay rich have a set of priorities and talents that most people simply do not have.
There’s a foundation whose sole purpose is to help lottery winners avoid ruining their lives and ending up tens of millions of dollars in debt. People win five million dollars, and they run out and buy a five-million-dollar house.
I heard a guy from this foundation once on the radio, saying that people who win a few hundred thousand to several million almost always wind up deep in debt, and that about the only lottery winners who don’t are the ones who win so much they just can’t spend it all—fifty, a hundred, two hundred million.
I see you are bashing Bush and the Republicans for being big spenders. So did Bush create social security, medicare, FDA,FEC,IRS, HUD, HHS,welfare,FCC, dept of education, and the thousands of other government programs that require mandatory spending? NO Bush nor Republicans did that but it was Democrats/Marxists like FDR an LBJ and their Democrat congresses who did.
Funny how you parrot the liberal media lines to pretend to attack Republicans from the right. I think you like Michael Savage are liberals posing as conservatives.
Okay name new government programs that Bush created in 8 years and compare those to the thousands of government programs and agencies that Democrats/Marxists created in the previous 100 years that have MANDATORY spending and spending INCREASES built into them.
There is a difference between parroting the media and stating facts.
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