Democrat Barack Obama brought a fierce populist message to the state on Thursday, hoping his push for middle-class tax cuts proves popular here and in other battlegrounds.
While Obama touted his tax cut plan as seeking to close a widening gap between the nation’s haves and have-nots, Republicans slammed his approach, labeling Obama a garden variety tax-and-spend liberal.
In the Senate, McCain initially opposed the Bush tax cuts, but now says he wants to make them permanent. Obama says the Bush tax cuts disproportionately benefit the wealthy.
“It is time for folks like me who make more than $250,000 to pay our fair share,” Obama said. “If you are a family making less than $250,000, my plan will not raise your taxes. Period.”
Average Americans, he said, “could stand a break. You could stand a break.”
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=761666Where did the $150,000 tax floor attributed to Obama come from? I saw Beach Bum pushing that for weeks.
Obama's taking the responsible route in ending the Bush tax cuts. Bush wanted the tax to end in 2010 to make his promises (lies) re the true costs of the tax cuts palatable to the american people. Then he turns around and asks to make them permanent...what a crooked politician Bush is.
McCain, well he flip-flopped right into fiscal insanity by embracing the irresponsible tax cuts of Bush.
Yesterday I saw McCain in one of his tv ads and he looks terrible. He looks like Reagan did at the end of his presidency--old, used up, and slightly confused.