A New Stitch in a Bad Pattern

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  • Posted By: tiredoflies @ 09/03/2008 4:27:51 PM


    Thank you FactCheck for showing the truth; the DECEPTIVE PRACTICES OF MCCAIN.

    Rember what McCains Rick Davis says:

    ???It does not matter if it is true as long as it works.???

    Is that not exactly what their ad attempts to do.

    Remember too, IF MCCAIN AND HIS TEAM WILL LIE TO US NOW, THE THEY WILL DO IT ONCE IN OFFICE.

    Have NOT we had enough of that?

  • Posted By: jim3c @ 09/03/2008 3:56:46 PM

    Boy, the Wall Street Journal has exactly the opposite sort of story about taxes. Who to believe? WSJ!

    Since when did Urban-Brookings become non-partisan? Brookings is Liberal, democrat ideas.

  • Posted By: ApostasyUSA @ 09/03/2008 2:32:25 PM

    McCain has 1-itis.

    Talk about one thing enough...even if it's not true....and the "low information voter" still takes it as justification for voting for the angriest warmonger they can find.

    I guess it's a strategy......

    In the last 8 years or so Republicans have shown me that they will do anything and everything in their power to keep you from retaining an opinion based on the facts that their incompetence is comprised of.

  • Posted By: ApostasyUSA @ 09/03/2008 1:23:40 PM

    Right.

    Any number of stories I've read describe in detail how cursory McCain's economic/energy policy is and that McCain will lie right to your face with no fear of retribution from the media.

    Will the Real Tax-and-Spender Please ???Fess Up?

    ???McCain is picking the areas where rates go up and ignoring the areas where Obama is trying to rebalance the tax code so that taxpayers would save,??? said John Irons, research and policy director at the Economic Policy Institute, which is generally viewed as sympathetic to working families. Mr. Irons said that ???the important thing is to look at overall impact on people??? and that on this score,

    ???the vast majority of the population, almost the entirety of the middle class, would see more from Obama than McCain.???

    Economists have also criticized the methodology behind Mr. McCain???s assertion that Americans from all kinds of backgrounds could end up paying thousands of dollars more in taxes if Mr. Obama got his way. Several criticized him as apparently basing his claim on an average figure in which, as Mr. Irons said, ???Bill Gates is mixed with you and me, and everything gets skewed.???

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/13/us/politics/13check.html

    • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/03/2008 1:45:35 PM

      Cursory? Perfunctory? Ill-planned?
      Those are all polite statements regarding Mr. McCain "plans".
      They are so busy picking on Mr. Obama's plans, they forget they have none.

  • Posted By: AskPlus @ 09/03/2008 1:43:22 PM

    Look Mr. McCain lied again. He's now 13-for-14 in Fact-check lies.
    Good for him. All he does is lie. Lie.

  • Posted By: ApostasyUSA @ 09/03/2008 1:41:34 PM

    The Financial Times

    Obama holds bipartisan economy talks.

    Mr McCain???s tax and spending proposals would add an estimated $3,400bn to the US deficit over the next decade compared with an estimated $700bn deficit reduction from Mr Obama???s plans, according to the Tax Policy Center, an independent think-tank.

    http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e23cc97c-5cfa-11dd-8d38-000077b07658.html

  • Posted By: pumapurr @ 09/03/2008 1:31:13 PM

    More great "journalism" from Snoozeweek. Here's an article on good old Urban-Brookings TPC from Newsbusters:
    "AP Uses Liberal Think Tank Study to Advance Obama Tax Push"
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lyndsi-thomas/2008/06/17/ap-uses-joint-brookings-urban-institute-study-advance-obamas-tax-poli

    Oh yeah, and also cite the New York Times and WashPost(!) Sterling non-partisans as well. Nice work, you fooled everyone. Well, almost.


  • Posted By: jnakhoul @ 09/03/2008 11:45:41 AM

    wow factcheck actually got there hands on some facts, nice job. I do not how anyone can make any reasonable claims about mccains economic plans. there aren't even estimations let alone concrete calculations. Him balancing the budget would be a joke if it wasn't such a pathetic outright lie. At a time when the economy is people's number 1 concern how can anyone vote for someone who's admitted his ignorance on the subject. not to mention his chief economic advisor said our recession was psychological and based on people whining. TTnewton i understand that progressive tax structures can seem to be unfairly singling out the most well off in society , but if anything the would warrant greater scrutiny of our tax laws to ensure that those that were earning millions or billions aren't lumped together with those earning say 300k a year. regressive tax cuts are not the answer and would only dire us deeper in debt

  • Posted By: sieg6529 @ 09/03/2008 7:27:15 AM

    The problem with the upper income tax brackets is that we have too few levels. Once you make above 357K per year, you're paying the same tax rate as the million- and billionaires. I agree it isn't fair that the wealthy must pay more, but there really isn't any other way if you want to keep fighting wars and paying Senator's salaries.

  • Posted By: txwoodworker @ 09/03/2008 6:37:58 AM

    Poor ttnewton. You can "fix" your tax problem by quitting your current employment and becoming a teacher. See how well you do on $2,500 a month. Your taxes will be low because some other ttnewton will be helping out with your share. Never mind that you would be contributing your share indirectly by working for the local school district for less than a living wage.

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