McCain: Obama 'ready to raise your taxes'

Hmm...my tax cut from Obama would be 3x larger than McCain, and I make near 65k. I guess I am not middle class. Shucks.

Sucker please, Obama is going to lower the rate of those under 250k and increase those over 250K. Since I already pay a higher rate with my 60k a year job and someone who makes 1M pays lower rates than I do, I think it is fine.

People say if we make people who make more then we will lose jobs. This is the biggest LIE in American Politics.

The best and FAIR system would be if we all paid the same rate, no loop holes, no exceptions. I get the same percentage of pay taken from my check as any one else. Cause let me tell you at my 60K salary I feel the crunch of taxes a hell of a lot more than someone who makes 250K or more.

Anyone who falls for that "democrats want to raise your taxes" schtick should have their right to vote revoked. Probably neutered too, but that'd cost a lot.

McCain is utterly shameless. Obama plans to cut taxes for everyone making $150,000/year and raise them only on people making $250,000/yr or more. Yet McCain keeps up the big lie that Obama will raise taxes on the middle class.

And to think I used to have some respect for McCain.

It amazes me that politicians can air what amounts to outright lies about one another's records and publicly declared plans. John McCain was one of the few republicans I respected enough to consider voting for. not anymore.

I would pay more taxes from Obama then send more troops to IRAQ with MCcain.

Are you reporting or defending?

Obama's middle class tax cut sounds alot like Deval's campaign promise of property tax relief. I won't hold my breath

McCain: 'ready to help the rich get richer, and the middle class poorer -- oh, and keeping us in a war we don't want or need and driving up our deficit by trillions, thus making sure our grandchildren and great grandchildren get to pick up the tab.'

"Are you reporting or defending?"

Are you talking about the fact that the reporter notes that McCain is full of crap? When Republicans continue to spin and outright lie, it is the MEDIA's responsibility to tell the American People the TRUTH. Most Americans have repeatedly shown that they are either too stupid or too lazy to search for the truth - which is why this Rovian spin garbage is so effective.

I, too, am amazed and bewildered by the outright lies these politicians are allowed to throw out there and not get called on it. It's an absolute disgrace. McCain has absolutely no soul.

Unfortunately, most of folks posting here do not understand the impact that higher taxes have on economic growth, nor do any of you understand that at least 30% of the total burden of federal taxes is paid by top 1% of incomes. With Democrats, the taxes on small business owners always goes up and small businesses are where a lot of jobs is created. Take a look at Europe: free school, free health care, legislated vacation leaves, and wide social safety nets, however the result of this socialism is 10-15% unemployment rates in many countries in the European Union. A friend of mine works for a Danish diagnostics company - funny thing is, most of the company's operations are here in Massachusetts. Why? The taxes and barriers to doing business in Denmark are ridiculous. If the unemployment rate in the U.S ever hit the levels currently in say, Germany for example, there would be riots, even in Cambridge.

Instead of talking just about cutting or raising taxes on the American people; let's start with overhauling govmt to reduce size, spending of all departments. Cut waste etc. The term Middle class really depends on where you live in the US.
60K in the NE is not the same as 60K in W Virginia. the problem I have w/ Obama is I cannot rely on "promises" during a campaign, I believe he will cave into pressure to support democratic adgendas and that usually means higher taxes.

McCain is trying to cut Obama's tax rate.
Obama is trying to raise McCain's tax rate.
Is that fair?

Obama's tax plan is absurd. He wants to spend more, while increasing taxes on far too few people to come anywhere near covering what he's spending. In other words, he wants an even bigger deficit. It's bogus campaign overpromising at its worst - anyone who thinks he's better than McCain in this regard needs to pull their head out of the sand.

One thing I can't understand about political ads is how they can "almost" tell the truth, but yet media outlets don't seem to have any problem running ads that confuse. Didn't this just happen with the mortgage companies? Running confusing or misleading ads/offers got a lot of people into trouble (just one aspect of that melt down, I know). All candidates/parties do it and it pisses me off. In my opinion the US public has to wake up and realize that the candidates bank on the fact that we are either too lazy, uninterested, or too stupid to review their plans and verify what is true or not. I understand that you can blur the edges of all the messages and they "could be made true", but is that really the point? Time for media outlets to step up and stop letting them run "scare tactics" that just are not completely true.

According to McCain, wealthy is $5 million a year, that is surely less than 1% of the population.

People also seem to foget that Obama or any politican wont be raising taxes, they will simply end the Bush tax cuts from their normal levels. They have caused this country to go into a deficit year after year and we shoudl start payign a little extra for the privilege to live in this country.

well lets see....Obama wants to use a similar tax plan as Pres Clinton did. With great success, unless none of you remember the 90's and the record budget SURPLUS we had.

Bush comes in and makes tax cuts for the rich and sends our young male generation overseas to fight a war based on lies...and look at us now.

I don't care what economists say, they're been wrong and will be wrong again in the future. They're talking heads, not fortune tellers.

Right now, going with a plan that has proven to be successful sounds like a pretty damn good idea to me...anyone else?

If I remember correctly, people accused Clinton of wanting to spend more, while increasing taxes on far too few people to come anywhere near covering what he's spending.

Interesting....considering he's the only president in 25 years not to run up a deficit but actually leave a surplus.

How in the world can anyone have respect for John McCain when he tells blatant lies over and over again in his campaign commercials? Obama's tax plan is out there, and he's proposing cutting taxes for about 95% of us. Obama's tax cuts for the vast majority of us are 3X larger than McCain's. I can't believe that McCain isn't being booed off the stage when all he has for us is lies! Seriously ... I can't believe there isn't even more public outrage at this. Its despicable that John McCain thinks its OK to lie to us over and over again.

The Repugs are notorious for going after a candidate's strengths. They do it with smears and slanders. In this case, one of McCain's perceived strengths is Honor. He was a military man, a ex-POW, so he must be honorable, right? But he's proving time and time again that he has no honor at all. His supposed biggest strength is really his greatest weakness wen you look at his actions. Unlike the Repugs, slanders aren't needed to attack John McCain's honor. He really is acting dishonorable.

The ad is a fabrication and a lie. That is clear. Why is the article not killing the ad? The facts are out there by reputable sources on the comparative impact of the tax policies of Obama and McCain.

I can't believe what I'm reading here. Have any of you looked at the ONLY piece of major legislation Obama has written? It will likely come up for a vote when Congress comes back from vacation. This legislation asks that we give $845 BILLION American Taxpayer dollars to the UN for foreign poverty. We are talking GLOBAL WELFARE here folks...and American families will be the ones footing the bill!!! You really think that will make your taxes go down? $845 BILLION is over $2,000.00 from every man, woman and child in the country. That's an extra $8,000.00+ from a family of four. And that's just the start for Obama, he has lots of other plans he wants taxpayers to pay for. Watch out, he's the tax man....and may I remind you that he serves in a Democratic led Congress that has the lowest approval rating ever - 11%! The approval rating was better before the Democrats got the majority in 2006....ever since then, their ratings have dropped and dropped because these guys don't and can't get anything done that helps Americans!

McCain is utterly shameless. Obama plans to cut taxes for everyone making $150,000/year and raise them only on people making $250,000/yr or more. Yet McCain keeps up the big lie that Obama will raise taxes on the middle class.

And to think I used to have some respect for McCain.

Let's not forget that we were attacked on 911 on George Bush's watch, in response, Bush attacked a country that had nothing to do with the 911 attacks.
John McCain wants to continue the war in Iraq for "as long as it takes". So where is the $$ going to come from to pay for the war? Answer: Your poket!
Remeber when George Bush Sr. Said: "read my lips, no new taxes"? So consider this, after a years or so, the Repubs always feel they can go back on their word because enough time has passed and they feel they can get away with it. It's been say one thing do another for some time now with Bush in office and McCain has been right there with him.

Has it ever occurred to anyone that the top 50% of taxpayers pay nearly 97% of the tax revenue collected by the IRS? Only 3% of IRS collections come from the lower 50% wage earners. There are approximately 50 million Americans who pay no tax or get a refund greater than what was collected from their earnings.

Democrats are always waning to "stick it to the rich and upper middle class" by shifting even more of the tax burden to the upper class.

If everyone who had AGI (Adjusted gross income) paid a fair share of our tax needs there would be no shortfalls and perhaps the more wealthy would not feel the need to shelter or hide their wealth. Why should 200 million people get a free ride?

What makes the lower 50% of Americans believe they should be a "ward of the state" and be dependant on the upper cl****to support them from cradle to grave?

DC Democrats and even some Republicans believe in socialism. They crave power so much that they enjoy keeping people dependant of Government services. Their attitude is; "give the suckers a few more dollars on their welfare check and they will vote us back each and every term" Pandering is what it is, a form of blackmail to keep the poor poor and force the wealthy to hide more money.

I'm retired but pay my share of taxes, what is everyone problem anyway?

If you like Obama then would would have loved voting for Fidel Castro. Just look at how good the Cubans have it living under a socialist form of Government.

What you dont get is that Middle-Class is up to atleast 300,000 and also y should a person making 250,000 make less than a person who makes 200.000 after taxes? Well JackAsses?

When oh when will lower and middle-class America wake up and realize that this whole trickle-down rationalization used by rich republicans to back-scratch their even richer supporters is just pure HOGWASH???

I for one am getting damned tired of being "trickled" on by these rich jerks who are getting nothing but richer and lounging in ever more tax breaks, while the rest of the country is in foreclosure and going down the tubes.

And calling themselves "fiscal conservatives" is an even bigger joke. Here's a question for you-- who was the last republican president that actually balanced the budget, and DIDN'T break all previous records for the sky-high national debt?

I'll give you some hints:
They never mention him in their campaign adds...
He gave a famous speech which is now named after a dog...
He once said, on national television that he was "not a crook"...
His last name rhymes with Dickson...................

Oh lord, will the emotional, abusive right-wing smoke screens never end?

Look, "Ian", "Dan", et al... if you actually did any research on this, rather than just re-spouting what you've heard from Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity, Dobbs, ad nauseum, you'd realize just how stupid you are making yourselves appear.

This is a pertinent quote from a ratio-graph in an exhaustive 2004 study on IRS tax policy and then-recent (Republican-driven) reforms:

"Share of Taxes Paid by High Income Taxpayers has Grown Relative to Their Share of Nation's Income"

I'm not going to include links because, for crying out loud, it took me all of maybe 4 minutes to locate this and several other informative studies on the ACTUAL breakdown of tax revenues. If you can't even put that much effort into researching facts, rather than simplistic, sound-bite rhetoric, then you are beyond help and should probably just go vote for Bush…. (again). Or maybe McCain. No real difference.

So… let's take this comment from the IRS and analyze it.

"Share of Taxes Paid by High Income Taxpayers has Grown Relative to Their Share of Nation's Income"

What in the world do you think it could possibly mean? You don't suppose that it might just refer to the concept that the reason your precious upper percentage of taxpayers is supplying such a high percentage of the collected revenue might just be because THEY ARE MAKING THE SAME PROPORTION of the total revenue "earned"?? (note the quotes)

It does stand to reason, doesn't it (sorry to resort to the dreaded R-word) that since they are making 97% of the money, they should probably be paying 97% of the taxes? It was noted that due to intentional "reforms", there were certain cases where those making over a million smackers were actually paying a (lot) lower percentage than those under $500k.

Hm, gee… I wonder into which bracket the biggest donors to Republican election campaigns happen to fall….?

Of course, this doesn't even take into account the REAL winners in the "republican reform raffle"-- the huge corporations. Thanks to many loopholes and intentional exceptions, there are virtually no large American corporations that pay anywhere near a proportionate amount of tax, compared to their profits. (All this and they're still sending all of their factories, support desks, and corporate offices overseas… go figure.)

And after years of all of this trickle-down "incentive" that the right-wingers have shoved down our collective throats, what is the result? Just turn on the news, mi amigos, or pick up a paper. As usual, the very rich are indeed getting richer by the day, corporations are getting away with highway robbery, and the lower and middle classes are taking it in the rear.

So "jackass" that, oh "wards of the state", and save your obfuscation for your spouse, friends, or whoever else you can force to listen. You're insulting our intelligence with all of this hateful and deceitful blather.

It would almost be amusing, if it weren't so damned harmful to this country.

Oh Lord, will the simplisitc, abusive right-wing smoke screens never end?

Look, "Ian", "Dan", et al... if you actually did any research on this, rather than just re-spouting what you've heard from Coulter, Limbaugh, Hannity, Dobbs, ad nauseum, you'd realize just how stupid you are making yourselves appear.

This is a pertinent quote from a ratio-graph in an exhaustive 2004 study on IRS tax policy and then-recent (Republican-driven) reforms:

"Share of Taxes Paid by High Income Taxpayers has Grown Relative to Their Share of Nation's Income"

I'm not going to include links because, for crying out loud, it took me all of maybe 4 minutes to locate this and several other informative studies on the ACTUAL breakdown of tax revenues. If you can't even put that much effort into researching facts, rather than just spewing simplistic, sound-bite rhetoric, then you are beyond help and should probably just go vote for Bush…. (again). Or maybe McCain. No real difference.

So… let's take this comment from the IRS and analyze it.

"Share of Taxes Paid by High Income Taxpayers has Grown Relative to Their Share of Nation's Income"

What in the world do you think it could possibly mean? You don't suppose that it might just refer to the concept that the reason your precious upper percentage of taxpayers is supplying such a high percentage of the collected revenue might just be because THEY ARE MAKING THE SAME PROPORTION of the total revenue "earned"?? (note the quotes)

It does stand to reason, doesn't it (sorry to use that dreaded R-word) that since they are making (at least) 97% of the money, they should probably be paying 97% of the taxes? It was noted that due to intentional "reforms", there were certain cases where those making over a million smackers were actually paying a (lot) lower percentage than those under $500k. Hm, gee… I wonder into which bracket the biggest donors to Republican election campaigns happen to fall….?

Of course, this doesn't even take into account the REAL winners in the "Republican reform raffle"-- the huge corporations. Thanks to loopholes and many intentional exceptions, there are virtually no large US corporations that pay anywhere near a proportionate amount of tax, compared to their profits. (All this and they're still sending all of their factories, support desks, and corporate offices overseas… go figure.)

And after decades of all of this trickle-down "incentive" that the right-wingers have shoved down our collective throats, what is the result? Just turn on the news, mi amigos, or pick up a paper. As usual, the rich are indeed getting richer by the day, corporations are getting away with highway robbery, and the lower and middle classes are taking it in the rear. Business as usual.

So "jackass" that, oh corporate "wards of the state", and save your obfuscation for your spouse, friends, or whoever else you can force to listen. You're insulting our intelligence with all of this hateful and deceitful blather. It would almost be amusing, if it weren't so damned harmful to this country.

Obama will raise taxes on those making over 250K, but lower them on those making below 250K. Seems to me I've heard that lie before. Wait a minute....it was four years ago. John Kerry told us the same line of bull.

Make no mistake, Obama WILL raise taxes on everyone. He can't help himself, he's a Democrat, its in his blood.

Does everyone remember the last Democrat to get elected on the promise of a middle class tax cut? It was Bill Clinton, and within a year he had helped push through the largest tax increase in U.S. history, affecting EVERYONE.

Furthermore, he then

unless you make over 250k a year, don't flatter yourselves, Obama knows exactly what he's doing and whoever feels threatened by this is indeed very wealthy or ignorant.........Go ObamA!!!!!