| Moongoddess256 said: "Obama is for higher government spending, keeping earmarks as they are and tax cuts for some tax raises for others that would lead to a higher national debt." I should directly tackle what you actually said. Not true, not true, true, and not true. He repeatedly said the tax raise would be for the top 5%. I'm pretty sure the people in the $250k + bracket aren't hurting as bad as those of us who make 10-20k a year. Really. I think they can take the blow for awhile for the sake of rest of us. Somebodies gotta take the bullet. And at least Obama isn't proposing that the majority takes the bullet. That top 5% holds a great deal of the nations wealth, I'm gonna have to look up a statistic on it but I'm pretty sure it adds up to more than what that other 95% has in total. And if that statistic I vaguely remember is true, that should compensate for A LOT. the "higher national debt" statement just sort of gets a "wtf" reaction from me, that doesn't make any sense. Especially if the wealthy hold the vast majority of the wealth. Also talking about cutting the war in Iraq IS lowering government spending. By A LOT. The earmark thing is all up in the air thanks to political spin bullshit. I'm pretty sure both candidates are for spending in some areas and less in others. Obama is for broadening the middle class because for YEARS the middle class has been slowly been chiseled away at as the wealth goes to richest. Thats what the whole taxing the rich thing is about. Every political science class I have had has covered the increasing gap between the rich and the poor. It needs to be cut down, we are becoming unbalanced. I think either McCain or Obama would take appropriate measures to solve the problem. I do not consider McCain an idiot (like Bush), even if I favor Obama. I just wish for more balance. |
Eh.... You didn't tackle anything there.
As for Earmarks
There was a bill to reform Earmarks to make it less abusive.
Obama voted against that bill.
McCain also has quite extensive Middle Class taxcuts. Better ones actually... and he plans to spend a lot less money and stop wasteful spending.
As for the Iraq war. Obama wants to shift all the Iraq resources over to Afghanistan.... and if we do that too soon, based on an arbitrary time table instead of wheter the country is ready to stand on its own or not... we're going to end up having to go back there and extend the conflict rather then shorten it.
Obama has a lot more government programs he wants to inact... and few things he wants to cut... a simple tax hike on the rich isn't going to get him anywhere near all the money he needs for it. He will either need to raise taxes on everybody or run a massive debt.
In fact the only thing he's really talked about cutting is the Iraq war. Which isn't really going to be up to the next president but how Iraq progresses.
