Obama's "Welfare"
October 17, 2008
McCain calls Obama's refundable tax credits "welfare," but calls his own "reform."
Summary
The McCain campaign has taken to denigrating some of Obama's tax proposals as "welfare" rather than tax cuts. And it continues to mislead about who would see a tax increase.
- A new McCain-Palin Web ad characterizes Obama's proposed refundable tax credits as "welfare." But McCain himself proposes refundable tax credits, too, as part of his health care plan, and calls them "reform."
- The ad also says "hard-working families" and "seniors" would pay higher taxes. But – need we say this again? – that would be true only for the affluent few, not for the many.
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8 comments:
quit being so nicy nice and go for the jugular, teach
Thanks for staying on it, Mary!
no matter what you say or do or how many facts you come armed with there will always be some who
don't listen
don't care
prefer help for the rich only
never looked up the word socialism
and on and on Mary
I am going thru it with some friends, family and neighbors
It's good that you're posting excerpts from FactCheck.org. I have found that site to be truly unbiased -- a haven in these times of ferociously biased reporting -- not to mention the nasty email pass-arounds from both sides.
Bravo, Mary.
I think that a lot of your population thinks that the $ fall from heaven. Without taxes no services either, that's normal. Maybe it interests you that we in Belgium pay from 30 to 50 % taxes on the gross salary. This includes pension, healthcare, and benefice if you loose your work. It also pays the 3 to 4 weeks legal holidays and 3 months pregnancy "vacation".
I found it somewhat amusing that McCain thinks all plumbers make over $250,000 a year!
Thanks guys, trying to keep it real and factual... :)
A lot of people who say they are afraid of Senator Obama's tax plan haven't really read it and simply spit out sound bites that have no relation to the actual points in the plan.
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