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John McCain's plan to cut taxes and balance the budget wins praise from fellow Republicans. Economists and nonpartisan analysts say his numbers don't add up.

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engineer4 months, 1 week ago

McCain's tax cuts and war policies don't make any sense considering our debt.
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  Muleskinner4 months, 1 week ago
  
  McCain has a 30 year record of fighting excess spending. If anyone can do it, he can. If the Dems take the WH, hold onto your wallet or get on welfare. That will be the most profitable "vocation" :o)
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jovial4 months, 1 week ago

It's Hocus Pocus like Reagonomics. There's really no plan, but to keep going down the same disastrous road.
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skeptic2714 months, 1 week ago

Twice in my life have I requested the help of my Senator. The first time I requested Paul Simon's (former Dem Senator of IL) help with an immigration problem. The positive response from immigration was immediate (though immigration had told me it would take 8 months to get to my case).
The second time was while we were living in AZ and adopting a baby. My wife's fingerprints wouldn't clear the FBI. We submitted her prints and months would go by with no word from the FBI. We contacted McCain's office for assistance. Nothing happened. We submitted my wife's prints a second time and then a third time each time waiting months for the FBI to respond. Finally the fourth time they were approved, no thanks to McCain.
I know it doesn't pertain to taxes but it told me a lot about McCain.

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Beau78904 months, 1 week ago

Funny. People say Obama will tell anyone whatever they want to hear, but this idea from McCain would grow the national debt as much as Bush has.
Then again, come people still consider the Republicans "the party of fiscal responsibility."
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  Muleskinner4 months, 1 week ago
  
  True, the repubs haven't been true to their roots. But during the past 2 years the Dems, who have had the purse strings, have done even worse. McCain has fought them for decades. Time to give him some clout to do it with.
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    engineer4 months, 1 week ago
    
    Dem's couldn't do anything because of the Obstructionist Republicans and the extortion by Bush that he would cut civilian jobs if he didn't get his money for the illegal war!
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      Muleskinner4 months, 1 week ago
      
      BS :o) If Bush was really threatening that which he has no power to do, the Dems would let him do it. They could care less about this country. Only the power they seize any way they can. If they have a decent issue, they can easily overide any veto. When they are wrong, of course they can't..duh.
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        triizine4 months, 1 week ago
        
        Bush has over-stepped the boundaries of his position time and time again. Bush is a liar, a moron, and a self-interested blow hard. How he got into the white house and then re-elected still remains a mystery to me.
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    Beau78904 months, 1 week ago
    
    The Democrats have NOT done worse than Bush. They've not stopped the out-of-control spending, but not for lack of trying. Unfortunately, Bush vetoes any measure to try to raise revenues, make contractors accountable, or decrease funding for Bush's war in Iraq. And the Democrats don't yet have a large enough majority to override Bush's vetos.
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skeptic2714 months, 1 week ago

Not true Muleskinner. Having a thin majority doesn't automatically mean that every wish and desire of the Democrats comes true (oh that it were so).
A much better example is the budget surplus that resulted from Clinton closing unneeded military bases and outsourcing inefficiently run government jobs to private industry.
It's not that the Republicans haven't been true to their roots, they've abandoned their roots. They are not your mother's Republicans anymore and McCain isn't fighting them he's become a mainstream Republican. Republicans are now for BIG spending, cutting taxes so there is no longer anything left for infrastructure or social security. Republicans are the party of indebtedness. They worry too much about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and not enough about a trillion dollar debt with China.
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  GHOSTWHOWALKS4 months, 1 week ago
  
  China dumped the 1.4 trillion dollars they held for a more stable currency, so they have shifted the debt to some other currency buyers.
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quackpot4 months, 1 week ago

Democrats: tax and spend.
Republicans: borrow from our children, print new money and SPEND SPEND SPEND.
McCain's "plan" is just more Bush-a-like nonsense.
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GHOSTWHOWALKS4 months, 1 week ago

So because you don't like the dem candidates you'd vote for Le Muffette Jr. and his war mongering more of the same policies? Personally I won't vote for them either. But I sure as heck ain't voting for world war 3 either.
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  GHOSTWHOWALKS4 months, 1 week ago
  
  Maybe you'd better rethink your priorities and find out about the real dipstick. Here's a start.
  On top of refusing to support the new GI Bill (VFW endorsed June 2007), he has consistently voted against increasing military funding to the Veterans' Administration:
  Voted AGAINST an amendment providing $20 billion to the VA's medical facilities. [5/4/06]
  Voted AGAINST providing $430 million to the VA for outpatient care "and treatment for veterans," one of only 13 senators to do so. [4/26/06]
  Voted AGAINST increasing VA funding by $1.5 billion by closing corporate
  loopholes. [3/14/06]
  Voted AGAINST increasing VA funding by $1.8 billion by ending "abusive tax loopholes." [3/10/04]
  Voted AGAINST a $650 million increase in veterans' medical care funding.
  
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    triizine4 months, 1 week ago
    
    McCain says he will keep us in Iraq for 100 years, and then turns around and votes against veterans' benefits. That should scream to the people that he's an idiot!
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triizine4 months, 1 week ago

How the hell does he plan to finance the war if he's going to cut taxes? What a f??k nut!
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