Other than bogeymen like Bill Ayers, the only line of attack John McCain has left is to claim that Barack Obama would raise taxes on the middle class, which is, of course, a baldfaced lie. Under Obama’s plan, only those who make over $250,000 per year would receive a tax increase.
It seems to have escaped the attention of the punditocracy, but during the debate last week, it was McCain who admitted that he would raise taxes on just about every American who had health insurance coverage:
MCCAIN: Now, 95 percent of the people in America will receive more money under my plan because they will receive not only their present benefits, which may be taxed, which will be taxed, but then you add $5,000 onto it, except for those people who have the gold-plated Cadillac insurance policies that have to do with cosmetic surgery and transplants and all of those kinds of things.
First, it’s revealing that McCain equates plastic surgery with transplants. But the main point is, with the costs of health care soaring, it’s puzzling why tax-hating, borrow-and-spend Republicans would choose to tax health care benefits.
Perhaps they’re proposing this tax as a stealthy, punitive first step in killing employer-based heath benefits, with the eventual goal of forcing everyone to buy insurance as individuals on the open market. If so — unless they can convince insurers to reduce the cost of premiums — it’s likely we’d see a huge spike in the number of uninsured.
McCain is one confused, out of touch mutherf*cker! I just got laid off yesterday and as the (former) primary breadwinner my main concern right now is healthcare for my self and my family, and McCain is going to TAX healthcare benefits?! This just PROVES how out of touch McCain is!
Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is the best future leader for this nation, not Senator Barak Obama. Our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is also would be better at leading our nation in the future after a McCain Presidency than Senator Barak Obama would be in leading our nation in the future starting in January 2009. There are great reasons our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin would be a better future leader than Senator Barak Obama. The greatest reason for our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin’s is ideology. Our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is conservative in that she is pro life, marriage, guns, low taxes, low government spending, small government, unintrosive government, traditional and judeo Christian values, Bible reading and prayer in our public schools, and military spending. Senator Barak Obama is a liberal who is anti every thing that I have described that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is pro about or for. A second reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of experience. As a governor she has two years of executive administrative governing experience that Senator Barak Obama does not have. A final reason that our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin is superior is because of political accomplishments. When our soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin came to office she accomplished 3 major things which are as follows: she showed great leadership in the 3 following areas: government reform, the state budget and the economy, and wise use of natural resources. She reformed government by standing up to the big oil companies by breaking up the monopoly on power and resources. She insisted on competition and basic fairness which ended the control that the oil companies had on the state, and thereby returning control of the state back to the people. She also stood up to the special interest and lobbyist, and produced major ethics reform. She lead well in the state budget by generating a surplus which came about by vetoing a half billion dollars of wasteful spending, ending the abuses of earmark spending by congress, and by getting rid of the private jet, the chef, and the chuffer. Economically under her leadership she brought about the largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history. She also suspended the state fuel tax, and when oil and gas prices went up dramatically, and filled up the state treasury, she sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged – directly to the people of Alaska . On natural resources she has shown great leadership by beginning a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence. When the last section of the pipeline is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart. Senator Barak Obama has done nothing, so please vote John McCain for President and give to our beautiful soon to be Vice President Sarah Palin the opportunity that she deserves leading the nation into the future after a John McCain presidency. When our soon to be Vice President does lead the nation as President after a John McCain presidency,she will be the greatest President that we have ever had. Finally she is smarter than Senator Barak Obama
Thank You
John Warren
Oh, no, John, thank you for the spam.
John, at least you were not insulting and I thank you for that.
Here’s the problem with Sara Palin; she just does not have the intellect nor the diplomatic touch, nor is she sophisticated or educated enough to deal with world leaders and world issues, and she is not at all quick on her feet. (She couldn’t even tell Katie Couric what newspapers and magazines she reads!? Maybe she thought it was a trick question?)
Sorry John, she just doesn’t cut it in any way, shape or form, and this is why she will not be elected as VP. ‘Nuf said…
The ” October Surprise” is
john mccain was never tortured …The lying sack of shit
Nguyen Tien Tran said: “We never tortured McCain.”
John Warren – Have you ever heard of PARAGRAPHS?
Wow, nikolai, I’m sorry to hear you were laid off. I live in fear myself. I have a few nights off from my second job this week, and I intend to use at least some of them to work for Obama. Getting him in office is the only hope we’ve got for turning things around.