McCain’s Biggest Lies Are About Obama’s Tax Cuts

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McCain’s Biggest Lies Are About Obama’s Tax Cuts
By: Scarecrow Wednesday September 10, 2008 10:14 am


For weeks McCain's negative, dishonest ads have carried several themes, such as Obama's supposed celebrity, or references to experience or judgment. It's easy to be distracted by the irrelevant celebrity images, but they're a cover for repeating, over and over, a central lie of the McCain campaign.

If you watch McCain's ads carefully, virtually all (except for the total sleaze ads that the media are now condemning) contain some version of the lie that Obama would increase taxes on everyone. He repeats the lie in every appearance.

Representative King echoed these claims on Hardball Tuesday, but Debbie Wasserman-Schultz correctly countered that 95 percent would actually benefit from Obama's plans. The video shows McCain repeating the same claim that McClatchy fact checks in one of McCain's typical ads:

"Obama and his liberal allies promise higher taxes on your income, life savings, your electric bill. They oppose offshore drilling," the ad says.

Repeating the tax lie is central to McCain's campaign; indeed getting lies accepted as truth has become the essence of the McCain campain. It is what being a "maverick" has come to mean. So it does not matter that independent analyses show McCain's claim is patently false.

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McCain is not only lying about Obama's tax cuts; he's trying to avoid talking about the basic unfairness of the tax system -- the huge advantage for the very rich -- that the McCain/Bush tax policies would perpetuate. By obscuring that unfairness, McCain can pretend to be a champion for the middle class, even though he's not. Obama not only cuts taxes for most Americans; he does it in a way that starts to reverse the serious unfairness that has been built into the tax system since Ronald Reagan.