LTTE in my local paper: Democrat switches allegiance to McCain

[radfringe]

Add your comments to this LTTE in my local paper

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Democrat switches allegiance to McCain
For almost two years, I listened to all the presidential candidates. I’m a Democrat and if I hear the name “Obama” one more time, I’m going to scream my head off!

Sen. Barack Obama has a lot to say, but says nothing. He is going to raise our taxes because he will not have the money to do what he promised regarding the economy, health care, jobs, gasoline, etc.

Obama left a $60,000 job in New York to go to Chicago to be an organizer for $12,000. No experience in running a government!

http://www.timesleader.com/opinion/letters/MAIL_BAG__ensp_LETTERS_FROM_READERS_10-28-2008.html

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my comment:

just the facts....

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/there_he_goes_again.html

Obama says he'll raise income taxes and capital gains taxes only for couples earning more than $250,000 per year or singles making over $200,000.

It's certainly true that Obama's proposed spending is higher than his projected revenues, and Obama has made no secret of the fact that his plan will not result in balanced budgets for the next four years. According to the Tax Policy Center, without spending cuts elsewhere, Obama's proposals could increase the projected debt to $5.9 trillion over 10 years

Tax Policy Center analysis shows that McCain's proposals could raise the debt to $7.4 trillion over 10 years. And while McCain has promised to balance the budget by 2013, the Tax Policy Center notes that doing so would require a 25 percent reduction in federal spending. Few economists outside the McCain-Palin campaign think that is a feasible goal.

McCain's plan is to grow the pie higher, much like Bush's plan to make the pie higher. This is a continuation of "trickle-down". It's a top down approach. Make the pie bigger or higher and the rest of us wait for a crumb or two to fall off the table. How's that been working for you?

check out: http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/
How will your taxes change if Obama or McCain is elected in November?
The Tax Policy Center, an independent, non-partisan group, has estimated how taxpayers' 2009 taxes will change under the next President. Answer a few simple questions to calculate the likely change in your tax bill in 2009.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. That person was never a Dem to begin with or, if they were...

...they're likely racist.

[radfringe]

2. probably a repub pretending to be a dem

and the purpose of my response is not to change this guy's mind, it's to give out some facts for others reading the letter

[H2O Man]

3. Right.

Good response.

[KharmaTrain]

4. Taxes That Increase Revenues Vs. Waste Them

The bottom line about GOOPers is they just hate taxes, period. It doesn't matter which one, they will scream how unfair they are. We're constanlty "overtaxed" and he is, in specific. The "trickle down" message has been so ingrained in their pscyhe that they spew these words now out of self defense with little concept of what taxes really are.

Yet, under the GOOP model, where tax money is thrown away at cronies and corporate welfare, the defecits rise and the dollar plummets. Unless there's a war, there's little job creation by these "policies" and their inability to govern just emphasizes their corrupt mantra of "government doesn't work". It's a self-fulling prophecy that finally has been debunked for being a major failure.

The Obama plan builds in something that you can't really put into a plan now but you hope will take fruit later...that's a booming economy. His investments in education, technology, infrastructure and energy independence are similar to New Deal programs, that, if allowed to grow, will provide a new financial infrastructure for the country that will create jobs and with it more revenues into the federal coffers to both pay down the defecits and seed further growth.

Repugnicans can't concieve of a bottom-up concept of wealth generation. They are so programmed into the patriarchial system...the rich will take care of them or somehow make them rich (Joe the Plummer) yet they really can't explain why they believe works or benefits them.

Cheers...

[zbdent]

5. conservative think tanks are saying that Obama's plan will

help significantly more people than McCain's ...