2008 Candidate Comparisons
Posted in Current Event Opinions, General, News, The Vent on 09/04/2008 01:51 pm by JulsHere’s some interesting information below about the candidates running for President this year. Check out the fact checker links too they are also interesting.
This election will be changing AMERICA as we’ve all ever known it.
Be careful Who & What beliefs you elect into Office, because you may wish you never opened Pandora’s Box. Really evaluate who will be doing the changing….It’s not the government. If you vote for Obama, the people will be changing to the Government’s socialistic and dictatorship type standards. Not only will Our country face financial crisis at all income levels, but we may even face the worst racial crisis ever seen before.
I actually have spare change since Bush’s tax reforms and now Obama threatens to take even that away. No use trying to have a retirement fund, participate in the stock market, or even sell your home to make a profit–if Obama is elected. Obama wants a huge percent of that money you may earn. I’m already experiencing negative equity on my home, are you? If I sell and he wants what 28% or more on my sale, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. What is that all about?
Is Obama using his Drug Dealer profit manipulation skills in presenting these new taxes? Ooooh wait a minute, Obama won’t answer that question if he was ever a Drug Dealer or not. If you weren’t one, wouldn’t you clear that issue up right away? I would.
2008 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE COMPARISON TALKING POINTS
Candidates are:
JOHN McCAIN
BARACK OBAMA
Favors new drilling offshore US
McCain – Yes
Obama – No
Will appoint judges who interpret the law not make it
McCain – Yes
Obama – No
Served in the US Armed Forces
McCain – Yes
Obama – No
Amount of time served in the US Senate
McCain – 22 YEARS
Obama – 173 DAYS
Will institute a socialized national health care plan
McCain – No
Obama – Yes
Supports abortion throughout the pregnancy, even partial birth abortion
McCain – No
Obama – Yes
Would pull troops out of Iraq immediately
McCain – No
Obama – Yes
Supports gun ownership rights
McCain – Yes
Obama – No
Supports homosexual marriage
McCain – No
Obama – Yes
Proposed programs will mean a huge tax increase
McCain – No
Obama – Yes
Voted against making English the official language
McCain – No
Obama – Yes
Voted to give Social Security benefits to illegals
McCain – No
Obama – Yes
CAPITAL GAINS TAX
MCCAIN
0% on home sales up to $500,000 per home (couples). McCain does not propose any change in existing home sales income tax.
OBAMA
28% on profit from ALL home sales. (How does this affect you? If you sell your home and make a profit, you will pay 28% of your gain on taxes. If you are heading toward retirement and would like to down-size your home or move into a retirement community, 28% of the money you make from your home will go to taxes. This proposal will adversely affect the elderly who are counting on the income from their homes as part of their retirement income.)
DIVIDEND TAX
MCCAIN
15% (no change)
OBAMA
39.6% – (How will this affect you? If you have any money invested in stock market, IRA, mutual funds, college funds, life insurance, retirement accounts, or anything that pays or reinvests dividends, you will now be paying nearly 40% of the money earned on taxes if Obama becomes president. The experts predict that ‘Higher tax rates on dividends and capital gains would crash the stock market, yet do absolutely nothing to cut the deficit.’)
INCOME TAX
MCCAIN
(no changes)
Single making 30K – tax $4,500
Single making 50K – tax $12,500
Single making 75K – tax $18,750
Married making 60K- tax $9,000
Married making 75K – tax $18,750
Married making 125K – tax $31,250
OBAMA (reversion to pre-Bush tax cuts)
Single making 30K – tax $8,400
Single making 50K – tax $14,000
Single making 75K – tax $23,250
Married making 60K – tax $16,800
Married making 75K – tax $21,000
Married making 125K – tax $38,750
Under Obama, your taxes could almost double!
OUUUCHHH that’ll hurt me and probably YOU a lot!!!!
INHERITANCE TAX
MCCAIN
- 0% (No change, Bush repealed this tax)
OBAMA
Restore the inheritance tax
Many families have lost businesses, farms, ranches, and homes that have been in their families for generations because they could not afford the inheritance tax. Those willing their assets to loved ones will only lose them to these taxes.
NEW TAXES PROPOSED BY OBAMA
New government taxes proposed on homes that are more than 2400 square feet. New gasoline taxes (as if gas weren’t high enough already) New taxes on natural resources consumption (heating gas, water, electricity) New taxes on retirement accounts, and last but not least….New taxes to pay for socialized medicine so we can receive the same level of medical care as other third-world countries!!!
You can verify the above at the following web sites:
http://elections.foxnews.com/?s=proposed+taxes
http://bulletin.aarp.org/yourworld/politics/articles/mccain_obama_offer_different_visions_on_taxes.html
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/barack_obama/
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/candidates/john_mccain/
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/06/was_obama_a_muslim.html
09/05/2008 at 9:22 am
What scares me more than even Obama being president is that if he does win the election, it would mean that more than 50% of this country has fallen under his spell and basically is in denial regarding the consequences to this country of an Obama presidency. Scarey thinking that so many people could be brain dead. I’m praying big-time for McCain, an imperfect man to be sure, not as eloquent as Obama, but a man who loves his country and will try to do everything he says he will do. Not sure how he will do some things given that the House is dem dominated. Well, I can’t stop myself once I get started on this stuff:-)
Bravo Juls on a good article!