As Sen. Barack Obama says, "There's a big difference between the change we need and the Bush-McCain politics we need to leave behind." On the campaign trail, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's scripted speeches deliberately misrepresent the facts about Sen. Obama's tax plan. Here are the real key points of Obama's plan:
1. A $1,000 emergency energy rebate to help families with high fuel costs, while putting $50 billion into job creation to get our economy back on track.
2. Families making less than $250,000 a year will get a tax cut three times larger than under John McCain's plan and will face absolutely no tax increases.
3. While McCain has voted against raising the minimum wage 19 times, Obama would raise the minimum wage and set it to rise automatically with inflation.
4. Invest $15 billion a year in green energy research to reduce our economy's dependence on foreign oil and create five million American jobs a year.
As for health care, McCain remains clueless.
The truth shall set us free.
No McCain. No Palin. No way.
Posted by: JanePoet ~ JP/deb | 23 September 2008 at 01:21
McCain wants to tax our health care as income. That means, your check will be LESS every week- and you will owe income taxes on that money, because it will be reported as income.
And I AM GETTING SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING MCCAIN/PALIN LIE AND TELL PEOPLE OBAMA WILL RAISE TAXES ON EVERYONE. It. is. simply. not. true.
Thanks for reporting the truth Tara!
Posted by: My Mélange | 22 September 2008 at 18:33
I really don't know where the McC camp gets the stupidity of repeating a lie.
Here I sit, in Toronto, turn on the TV, and I hear Sen. Obama's tax plans from his own mouth. Now -- presumably, since I'm tuning into U.S. television stations, Americans are getting the same broadcasts.
So I'm left wondering about Palin's sanity. Really.
Posted by: Colette | 22 September 2008 at 17:53
Bravo!
Posted by: Bobbi Rightmyer | 22 September 2008 at 14:09