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American Presidency: McCain picks Palin
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You read it wrong. It's an 8% increase for the 600,000+ bracket. Brackets are far left, numbers next to the percents are average dollar increase/decrease.
The $111,000-$160,000 shows a tax decrease of 2.1%.
I still want to know if that accounts for the health care coverage tax change. I assume it does not.
The thing with both of those tax graphs is that neither really take into account payment for social policies. For the most part, they are what you'd expect, but no one has quite figured out where Obama is getting the money for his utopia.
Noted.
Cat fight!
There goes the Hillary supporter vote.
Yeah, Clinton, Pelosi, and McCaskill are going to try and beat her bloody.
Still, McCain/:winky: '08 is better than McCain/Jindal
Where is McCain going to get his money for Iraq?
Holy shit.
It is indeed for households, but you're not reading it right if you're seeing 8% for 115k. What you're seeing is an average of an 8% increase, which would GIVE $115k per household, for people making ~$600k-$2.8 million. Obviously, that's an average, so it'd be a much smaller increase for the lower numbers and a larger increase for the higher ones.
A household making $115k would have a tax cut of roughly $2200 under Obama and roughly $2600 under McCain. Actual numbers are slightly higher for Obama and slightly lower for mcCain (once more due to ranging averages), so $115k households are roughly the point where Obama's cuts more than McCain's.
Also, Romney and Pawlenty are pissed.
Mainers, Rell, and Lingle=Pro Choice.
Elizabeth Dole = older than McCain by a month + Bob Dole factor.
Hutchinson would have made sense probably but Texas doesn't help probably
Murkowski is mixed up in the Alaska corruption right now...
Rice is a Bushie...
GOPers only elect white dudes.
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
What parts of the utopia do you need accounting for?
Obama and McCain will both leave Iraq at about the same time. The rest is just rhetoric. We don't get to just pull out anymore, even though the invasion was a horrible idea.
good god
that's like 20% of all registered voters.
fucking
insane
That's a completely different set of graphs, this one's just taxes. The overall "if you both implemented all your policies and tax plans" thing shows them both short cash, but Obama winds up shorter by about half as much due to the tax increases on the high end. Basically, McCain wants to add less, but wants to cut income across the board as well. He winds up with a bigger debt.
According to Obama, leaving Iraq would vastly reduce our expenditures. This is true for all cases. However, you are accurate that most tax studies state that with all of the plans that Obama wants to implement, there would still be a deficit. The same studies also point out that McCain has a deficit over $300 billion larger due to his continuing Iraq and reduced revenues from cutting taxes across the board.
He's said on numerous occasions that he'd close tax loopholes that give breaks to corporations who send jobs overseas. I'm not sure how he'd do that, or how much money that'd bring in, but it seems to be a key point of his pay-go plan.
winner!
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
Couldn't they come out the losers because of the ethics investigation? The ethics investigation that is run by a democrat and could put some of the blame on her, not just on Ted Stevens?
but they're listening to every word I say
They should play up that graph more because it speaks to more people. I'd like to see it, actually.
Obama's proposals have $300b less of deficit spending than McCain's.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/156190
I want a McCain/:winky: bumper sticker
Lemme find, it's Loooooooong.
I know nothing of it, so.. maybe?
QEDMF xbl: PantsB G+
They need to plaster her face up everywhere. With American flags, barbie dolls, and guns.
I dont know alot about it either, but they were just talking about it on NPR. Apparently alaskans like her, just like they like stevens though.
But I guess it could be a concern. Maybe they counted getting more hillary women then they would lose from people knowing about the ethics thing.
edit: apparently in alaska she is known as someone who "fights corruption" so maybe nothing bad will come down on her.
but they're listening to every word I say
McCain wants permanent bases from Kuwait to Turkey in order to stifle Iranian aggression. That costs money. Even moreso since we'll have to bribe the Iraqi's and fight the people constantly mortaring the positions in the first place.
YES
It begins.