It is intellectually dishonest to suggest that Obama’s economic plans are socialist! The lows that that other campaign has stooped to is unbelievable.
What is wrong with spreading the wealth around – isn’t that what we do now? You and I pay more taxes proportionate to our incomes, while big business pays much less, if any (50% pay zero), all in the hopes that by doing this businesses will grow and provide us more jobs. So far this economic theory has not yet been proven. At the same time as these big businesses are not paying their fair share, they enjoy unheard welfare programs. Programs like being able to log on government property, mine government property, farm subsidies to millionaire agribusiness conglomerates, tax shelters, beach replenishment programs for resorts, shifting pollution problems away from the business polluters to the taxpayers, and the list goes on and on.
Obama has set out his tax plan. It is on his website. It has been evaluated by non-partisan groups. It is not radical and will save 95% of working families more than those families would receive under a McCain plan. Obama has repeatedly stated that the highest tax rate should return to the level it was under Reagan, a Republican.
Look, the GOP has never, ever been the party of small business or working folks. Period. It is just amazing how the GOP manages to get people to vote against their own interests by dazzling those same folks with some tidbit they want to hear, never mind if it is true. After 8 years of being burned, you would think people would have learned by now.
People by into this because people think with their racists hearts. This is really not about the small business Joe the Plumber. Good Lord, Joe the Plumber disregarded all mail from the State of Ohio regarding his taxes and the State slapped on lien on his property. Apparently, we are still living in the days of Colonial America.
More importantly, Govenor Palin, who shops at Saxs and Neiman Marcus, apparently doesn’t realize that Joe the Plumber et al shop at Target and Walmart. $150k in clothes could have paid off Joe the Plumber’s house. If the clothes that Governor Palin wore in AK are good enough to be Govenor, why aren’t they good enough to be VP?
Lastly, billing $21k on flight/travel expenses for her children, when the family could live together in the Governor’s mansion, is just ridiculous. Then to not include this $21k as income on their taxes is a bit unethical as well.
So much for a transparency government Governor Palin. By the way Govenor Palin, please, please, please, look up what the duties of VP are in this country.