Here is a good summary on the talking points of McCain and Obama.
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| ISSUE |
JOHN McCain |
BARAK OBAMA |
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Favors new drilling offshore US |
Yes |
No |
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Will appoint judges who interpret the law not make it |
Yes |
No |
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Served in the US Armed Forces |
Yes |
No |
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Amount of time served in the US Senate |
22 YEARS |
173 DAYS |
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Will institute a socialized national health care plan |
No |
Yes |
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Supports abortion throughout the pregnancy |
No |
Yes |
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Would pull troops out of Iraq immediately |
No |
Yes |
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Supports gun ownership rights |
Yes |
No |
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Supports homosexual marriage |
No |
Yes |
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Proposed programs will mean a huge tax increase |
No |
Yes |
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Voted against making English the official language |
No |
Yes |
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Voted to give Social Security benefits to illegal’s |
No |
Yes |
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CAPITAL GAINS TAX |
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| MCCAIN | 0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax. | ||
| OBAMA | 28% on profit from ALL home sales. (How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.) | ||
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DIVIDEND TAX |
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| MCCAIN |
15% (no change) |
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OBAMA |
39.6% – (How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama becomes president. The experts predict that ‘Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market, yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.’) |
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INCOME TAX |
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| MCCAIN (no changes) |
Single making 30K – tax $4,500 Single making 50K – tax $12,500 Single making 75K – tax $18,750 Married making 60K- tax $9,000 Married making 75K – tax $18,750 Married making 125K – tax $31,250 |
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| OBAMA (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts) | Single making 30K – tax $8,400 Single making 50K – tax $14,000 Single making 75K – tax $23,250 Married making 60K – tax $16,800 Married making 75K – tax $21,000 Married making 125K – tax $38,750 Under Obama, your taxes could almost double! |
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INHERITANCE TAX |
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| MCCAIN |
- 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax) |
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| OBAMA | Restore the inheritance tax
Many families have lost businesses, farms, ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will only lose them to these taxes. |
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NEW TAXES PROPOSED BY OBAMA |
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New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet. New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren’t high enough already) New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity) New taxes on retirement accounts, and last but not least….New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!! |
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You can verify the above at the following web sites:
http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/election/2008/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/issues/issues.taxes.html
http://elections.foxnews.com/?s=proposed+taxes
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/barack_obama/
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/john_mccain/
September 3rd, 2008 | 
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So, I didn’t check the list and I still haven’t. But I recommend you do if you use it. Personally, I did a quick check from memory and it all looked right to me. (Maybe B.O. isn’t bumping taxes to 28% on home sales, maybe only 20%, it’s still the wrong direction.)
The fact is Obama is soft on Crime (including terrorists and illegal immigrants) and wants to implement a boat load of programs we (the US) can afford. So that means I’ll be less safe and paying more for it. I won’t even have money left over to buy a gun to protect myself, that is if we’re allowed to own guns under a B.O. administration. (The Constitution is overrated, right? No!)
Anyway, I respect your opinions and I agree everyone should check up on facts but good luck finding a non-partisan source, there is no such thing.
Thanks for the comment and remember, I’ll never censor here so feel free to reply. (Some exceptions for lewd, threatening, and/ or illegal content. Oh, and posts with links to Viagra sites.)
For starters, when something so basic like the other guy’s name (the one you don’t like) is misspelled (It’s Barack not “Barak”) on a purportedly objective comparative piece then an alarm should go off in your thinking head: you are being taken for a ride, you’re being fed propaganda and lies, that you are, as they say, being played.
Voters would do well to take out pencil and paper and go down his fake list but as checked against the non-partisan:
http://www.factcheck.org/
or – http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/taxes.asp
or -
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/aug/04/return-tax-attack-chain-e-mail/
Vote for whom you will but it is awful dumb to go on the basis of a email chain-letter. Psst. The creators of this phony list are probably laughing. They were so brazen they actually dared you to click on CNN, WashPost, AARP at the bottom to verify their lies – knowing full well that you’d fall for their hoax – and you WOULD NOT BOTHER TO REALLY CHECK.
What – do they think we’re stupid?