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xd9fan
09-18-2008, 10:43 AM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/biden_taxes_3



By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL, Associated Press Writer Thu Sep 18, 9:15 AM ET

WASHINGTON - Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden said Thursday that paying more in taxes is the patriotic thing to do for wealthier Americans. In a new TV ad that repeats widely debunked claims about the Democratic tax plan, the Republican campaign calls Obama's tax increases "painful."


Under the economic plan proposed by Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, people earning more than $250,000 a year would pay more in taxes while those earning less — the vast majority of American taxpayers — would receive a tax cut.

Although Republican John McCain claims that Obama would raise taxes, the independent Tax Policy Center and other groups conclude that four out of five U.S. households would receive tax cuts under Obama's proposals.

"We want to take money and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people," Biden said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Noting that wealthier Americans would indeed pay more, Biden said: "It's time to be patriotic ... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut."

McCain released a television ad Thursday charging that Obama would increase the size of the federal government amid an economic crisis. Contending that "a big government casts a big shadow on us all," the ad features the image of a shadow slowly covering a sleeping baby as a narrator misstates the reach of the Obama tax proposal.

"Obama and his liberal congressional allies want a massive government, billions in spending increases, wasteful pork," the ad says. "And we would pay — painful income taxes, skyrocketing taxes on life savings, electricity and home heating oil. Can your family afford that?"

The McCain campaign said the ad is set to run nationally.





Do we need Washington DC anymore??

SnappleLlama
09-18-2008, 10:46 AM
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous.

pacelli
09-18-2008, 10:49 AM
Taxation is a euphemism for armed robbery.

moostraks
09-18-2008, 11:44 AM
hmmm... so the poor send your children to fight the corporate's war to increase the bottem line so the rich have the cash to foot the bill for the weaponry needed to...(You get the point) Ahh,the beauty of it all. Class warfare at its finest.

werdd
09-18-2008, 12:13 PM
i dont see any incentive for anyone to make more than 250k a year if this happens.....

They would probably make it out better and make 249k, than they would say if they made 275k.

Artificial caps are bad, let capitalism take care of it.

ItsTime
09-18-2008, 12:14 PM
The only patriotic tax is NO tax

Truth Warrior
09-18-2008, 12:15 PM
Biden is an ass hole AND an idiot.

dirknb@hotmail.com
09-18-2008, 12:16 PM
What a fucking moron.

nullvalu
09-18-2008, 12:18 PM
Now I completely understand why Obama picked him.

rightwinghour
09-18-2008, 12:22 PM
Can anyone say "class warfare"?

Highland
09-18-2008, 12:24 PM
"now Biden...put down that handful of BS you are about to throw!" - Ron Paul lol

Zippyjuan
09-18-2008, 12:29 PM
The ad is rediculous. More selling of fear that the other party wants to take everything from you- "painful income taxes, skyrocketing taxes on life savings, electricity and home heating oil. Can your family afford that?" A Carl Rove speciality.

Big Government casting a big shadow over a sleeping baby- like a criminal going to kill or kidnap the baby. Government grows more under Republicans. It grew more under Bush and it grew more under Reagan. Let's scare people and divide the country. But who cares so long as our side wins?

Note that the article says that
four out of five U.S. households would receive tax cuts under Obama's proposals.


I think spending needs cut more than taxes do for now. Cutting taxes without cutting spending digs the deep hole of borrowing even deeper. That is a major reason the deficit rose so much under Bush- tax cuts without spending cuts. He has borrowed more money from other countries than ALL previous presidents combined. Along with the Republican Congress.

Highland
09-18-2008, 12:35 PM
this is the scenario...Democrats tax us...build it up then hand over the government to the Rep. and they spend it on business they a. get kickbacks from or b. people they owe favors to.

only problem is that we found out early! that is sad for them.

brandon
09-18-2008, 12:48 PM
Taxation is a euphemism for armed robbery.

QFT.

It really is....