Here's the latest:
McCain has decided that if he can't get you to hate Barack Obama for raising your taxes (because he won't raise your taxes) he'll try to get you to hate him for NOT raising your taxes, for in fact giving you a tax cut.
For weeks, the McCain campaign has been telling the people that it is wrong to raise taxes in an economic downturn and that Obama is going to raise everyone's taxes, even those who make as little as $42,000 a year. He hammered on that for a while, but Obama hit back, making it clear no one who makes less than $250,000 will have their taxes raised.
Then he recruited Joe the imaginary Plumber to complain that the imaginary business he wanted to buy would earn him more than $250,000 imaginary dollars a year and he would have to pay taxes. McCain said that meant Obama would destroy Joe's imaginary "American dream."
But Obama refuted that handily in the debate and afterwards, (Even Joe said Obama would reduce his taxes) so today McCain is saying Obama is indeed cutting taxes and that means he is a socialist. (I thought it was okay to be a socialist now. Didn't that great radical conservative Republican, our current idiot president George W. Bush, just make us all socialists by nationalizing the banks?)
Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Saturday accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of favoring a socialistic economic approach by supporting tax cuts and tax credits McCain says would merely shuffle wealth rather than creating it.
"At least in Europe, the Socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are upfront about their objectives," McCain said in a radio address. "They use real numbers and honest language. And we should demand equal candor from Sen. Obama. Raising taxes on some in order to give checks to others is not a tax cut; it's just another government giveaway."
