David Both

This table shows where you stand. A negative number means you get a tax cut – less taxes. A positive number means you pay more taxes.

Give me a break! Under McCain, the Americans that need help the most get only $21 per year? How stupid is that!

It is clear that with McCain’s plan, the rich get richer; the tax breaks for the richest would be the largest by far. The rich would get tax breaks many times the size of a full-year’s earnings for those on the lower income brackets. This is just more of the old trickle-down crap that we have had for as long as McCain has been in the Senate.

Under Obama’s plan, if your income is less that $111,600 you get a larger tax break than under McCain. And only when your income is more than $227,000 per year would your taxes go up instead of down under Senator Obama’s plan.

Do you think it is fair for the lower wage earners to shoulder the tax burden while the rich get richer? I do not! The rich should pay more in taxes, not less.

Here is another link with additional details: http://www.thepoliticalhub.com/list/18.aspx

I received an email today about a huge anti-Palin rally in Alaska. I have put it up on the MoveOn-Ral.org web site. Here is the link: http://www.moveon-ral.org/?page_id=137

1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.¹
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”²
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.³
4. McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose. He said, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.”⁴
5. The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill.⁵
6. He’s one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a “second job” and skip their vacations.⁶
7. Many of McCain’s fellow Republican senators say he’s too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He’s erratic. He’s hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”⁷
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.⁸
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his “spiritual guide,” Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a “false religion.” McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church “the Antichrist” and a “false cult.”⁹
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.¹⁰

SOURCES

1. “The Complicated History of John McCain and MLK Day,” ABC News, April 3, 2008
“McCain Facts,” ColorOfChange.org, April 4, 2008

10. “John McCain Gets a Zero Rating for His Environmental Record,” Sierra Club, February 28, 2008