rssMcCain: Lowest Tax Rates in Decades Are Crippling the Country
Thursday, April 15, 2010 at 2:22 pm
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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor today to decry the crippling effect of federal income taxes on families and the economy.
“While we continue to spend and spend and spend here in Washington,” he said, “the tax burden carried by the average American gets heavier and heavier and heavier.”
He must not have seen the this new study from the Tax Policy Center, a joint project of the nonpartisan Urban Institute and Brookings Institution. Crunching numbers from the Congressional Budget Office, another nonpartisan group, analysts there found that the median middle-class family of four will owe just 4.6 percent in federal income tax today — about half of what they owed in Ronald Reagan’s lowest tax year.
Much of the reason, as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities notes, is the generous tax break offered in the Democrats’ stimulus bill, passed a year ago.
Don’t try to convince McCain. Our tax-paying ritual, he said, “is a painful, complicated and uniquely American exercise.” As if the Belgians are taking home everything.
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Comment posted April 15, 2010 @ 6:45 pm
If you're a right-wing-ignoramus who gets all of your info from Faux News and AM hate radio, then McCain is preaching gospel truth. Such “people” are exactly who McCain is pandering to; he's not speaking to the rest of us. Nor does he have enough of a conscience to be embarrassed by his dishonesty.
Comment posted April 15, 2010 @ 7:21 pm
Yet he's not the only one.
The GOP is a who's who of hypocrisy and dishonesty. Concience? That one died a while back. After eight years of “make the pie higher”, “man and fish can co-exist peacefully”, “put food on his family” and my favorite, “fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice…won't…won't get fooled again.”, and the petulant, spoiled child way the GOP are acting, not working, McCain's behavior comes as no surprise.
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