Comments on: Obama Airs McCain Smear Ad

By: Joel Harris

Joel Harris — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:06:25 +0000

By the way: closing a “loophole” is just code-speak for raising taxes. If you did something stupid like eliminate the tax deduction for charitable contributions, that could be called “closing a loophole”, but it is really just an effort to “enhance revenues”.

So listen to Obama and mentally translate as he talks about how to fix things. You will discover that almost all of his proposals include increasing taxes.

By: Joel Harris

Joel Harris — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:03:26 +0000

I don’t know how anyone can say definitively what taxes would be like under Obama. He has said so many different things on the issue that there is no way to tell. He has proposed so many pandering proposals that he will clearly not leave taxes untouched. He MAY decide that they only way to fund them is to tax the heck out of the “rich”, but we will quickly discover the folly there.

There is no question that Obama wants to raise taxes. NO QUESTION. He repeatedly talks about it. But who pays a “big oil” windfall profit tax? Not the “fat cats”–the consumer. All of them–even those who make less than $112,000 a year.

By: Michael Jezierski

Michael Jezierski — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:36:11 +0000

Just goes to show income tax has nothing to do with revenue generation it’s simply a social engineering system with bonuses and penalties for desired political effect.

By: mikeyc252

mikeyc252 — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:25:50 +0000

Taxpayer, unless you make 112,000 a year you’d pay less taxes under Obama than McCain. If you did, they’d be lower, just not as much.

By: taxpayer

taxpayer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:00:05 +0000

By the time Obama raises our taxes, causes vehicles to cost $thousands more, guts our military, and triples social programs, this country will be down the tubes.