McCain Ad: Obama Wants Higher Taxes For Workin' Joes

Expanding on his closing argument, John McCain put out an ad on Tuesday morning that accuses Barack Obama of pushing redistributive tax policies and wanting "higher taxes... for workin' Joe's."

Titled "Compare," the spot comes after days of the McCain-Palin ticket hammering away at the same argument, to little movement in the polls. Part of the issue is that the charge just lacks political credibility.

As John Harwood, appearing on MSNBC Tuesday morning, reminded viewers, McCain, too, favors policies that redistribute wealth, including a health care plan that would "give every American family a $5,000 refundable tax credit" to buy insurance.

The ad, the campaign says, will be televised in key states. Here is the script:

Your choice... For higher taxes ... for workin' Joe's. Spread your income ... keep what's yours. A trillion in new spending ... freeze spending, eliminate waste. Pain for small business ... economic growth. Risky ... proven. For a stronger America, McCain.

Comments

[showmestategal]

OMG how many more days of Mc Cain's Lies can I hold up for LET's get it done!

Now he really cannot be as STUPID as he would have to be to believe all of these I have lost count.

That is exactly why I have to say NO MORE NO WAY NO MCMORE--8 Years of being swindled by all of these type of LIES from republican's has taken to much of a toll on we the People.

If they really want us to listen to the issues , we may but hard having a hard time focusing on what they are saying because of different Attack's each day. Is there just nothing good they can say for themselves as a Ticket for the republican party because of the fine mess bush's administration as got us all in because of not listening to anyone or us the people who really knew better than him.

Well, I give up My Vote has to be Barack Obama because at least he cares enough about the American Citizens to want to explain as much as he can about his priorities & what he would plan to do if elected with the help of listening to all of us & the people he would Entrust to help him like Biden what a great choice.
We have earned & deserve that after bush's administration acting like we do not exist.

[amyloo]

"Keep what's yours" negates the railing against "Me first, country last."

Maybe they're not saying that anymore, but if they were it wouldn't be the first contradictory message. Just saying stuff. Blurting, in hopes something might stick.

[PitbullCatcher]

McCain is wasting his time on this " SPREADING THE WEALTH" issue. Here is the reason why. In American government we ALREADY mix socialism with capitalism to get the our needs accomplished as a nation. People¦socialism is not a new word for this country. It"s all about how you spin it. If you attach socialism it to a crooked nation or deceitful person it sounds bad. If you get a SOCIAL security check it sounds good.

Socialism - general term for the political and economic theory that advocates a system of collective or government ownership and management of the means of production and distribution of goods. Because of the collective nature of socialism, it is to be contrasted to the doctrine of the sanctity of private property that characterizes capitalism. Where capitalism stresses competition and profit.

HERE ARE SOME OF AMERICA"S SOCIALIST PROGRAMS THAT SPREADS THE NATION"S WEALTH AROUND.


Government Worker Programs
Civil Service Retirement Systems
Federal Employee Retirement Systems
Railroad Retirement System

Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Programs
Public Housing
Rental Vouchers & Certificates
Section 8 Housing Vouchers
Shelter Plus Care
Single Room Occupancy
Low Income Home Energy Assistance

Social Security Programs
Social Security (OASDI)
Unemployment Insurance
Temporary Disability Insurance
Medicare
Medicaid
Medicare Prescription Drug Plan

Welfare Programs
Supplemental Security Income
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Food Stamp Program
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
National School Lunch Program
School Breakfast Program
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

Taxes

That 700 Billion bailout package

[mderum]

8 years of Bush - Bush has caused more PAIN for small businesses, especially for women and minority owned businesses - McCain supported Bush 90% of the time!!!

Health Care is a mess because of Bush's pandering to the huge health insurance co.'s and the drug companies - McCain supported Bush 90% of the time!!! (McCain wants to give a token amount of $5k to people to find their own insurance - oh yeah, and HE TAXES THAT!!!)

Bush doesn't mind spending $10 billion ++ a month on a needless war (not to mention "spending" the lives of our soldiers and countless civilians) - McCain SUPPORTED Bush 100% on this one!!!

The higher taxes Obama brings will mostly effect those that Bush panders to now - McCain support Bush 100% on those tax loopholes too!

The taxes Obama brings will go toward education, welfare, infrastructure, the economy - things our country needs - McCain will keep the same Bush policies that he voted for 90% of the time!!!

Let's face it - McCain is wrong for our country - his obvious lack of perception on voting with and supporting Bush 90% of the time is proof of that - if you need more proof of his inability to think, perceive, and rationally make the right choices as a leader, you need to look no further than who he picked to be his running mate - the biggest joke of all - Sarah Palin.

Have a nice day! =)

Obama/Biden '08

[Tommygun2146]

Hilarious! I can't stop laughing! The way they put up pictures of the old grumpy guy kind-of smiling (they must have given him something chewy and then snapped away) up against pictures of the black guy obviously in the middle of saying something to make him look like he's sneering; while that woman's voice runs down the same old list of proven lies - it so clearly points out that you would have to be a brainless lemming to believe anything these people say. Now that is fine example of comedy through irony.

I mean, this ad was a spoof, right?

[Chetdude]

Socialists mainly share the belief that capitalism unfairly concentrates power and wealth among a small segment of society that controls capital and creates an unequal society. All socialists advocate the creation of an egalitarian society, in which wealth and power are distributed MORE evenly...

What the hell's wrong with that?

More for Joe the Plumber's Helper...a little less for the Kohler family...more for the Mom and Pop Store on Main Street...a little less for the Walton Family.

What the hell's wrong with that?

More power for the working class...less power for the bush family...

What the hell's wrong with that?

Those at the top aren't the "innovators" they are the exploiters...we should take back from them a fair portion of the wealth WE create and that WE produce!!!

[athenasword]

I am well off. And if I have to pay 3% more in taxes then SO BE IT. I just want someone who will work hard and figure out how to best spend my $ on education, science, climate and environmental issues and not just WAR.

'nuff said.

[athenasword]

That is a POOR ad. No meat. No clarity. And, if I walk away from the tv to get a pepsi I miss the whole point. Trained chimps could do a better job of running Macs campaign!

[peacenlover]

For the thousandth time, Obama will give a tax CUT to 95% of Americans.
Tax CUT!
McCains campaign is just going to keep saying this crap that people will actually believe it. People
cannot think for themselves. What people need to do is to do their own research and see which plan will they be better on.

[Konnie]

loved reading all the comments. the obvious reply is: duh.

of course the message is catching on - WITH THE DEMOCRATS! STUPID.

we have let republicans win the argument every time by ceding the original question.
they set the parameters of the arguments, year after year. this time we get to re-boot
the whole set up.

no more issue divisiveness. its not for or against abortion, race, tax or spend.
its about healing, saving, restoring, re-energizing.

and as i and others have pleaded on this site, take the "na-bobs of negativism,
the talking heads who have been proven wrong this time and get rid of them.
ignore them, don't let them be on tv shows anymore, relegate them to wingnut
fare and laugh at them and point fingers and make them look like the old-fashioned
out of step antiques from the past that they are.

[evekendall]

Businesses cannot grow unless there are enough people with enough money to buy their services or products. Henry Ford knew that. Here's an article by Lee Iacocca in Time magazine's 100 Greatest People of the 20th Century. It explains how "trickle up" - not "trickle down" - helped create the middle class:

http://www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/ford.html

Here's an excerpt:
"...his backers at the new Ford Motor Co. were insisting that the best way to maximize profits was to build a car for the rich... But Ford was from modest, agrarian Michigan roots. And he thought that the guys who made the cars ought to be able to afford one themselves so that they too could go for a spin on a Sunday afternoon... instead of listening to his backers, Ford eventually bought them out... Ford instituted industrial mass production, but what really mattered to him was mass consumption. He figured that if he paid his factory workers a real living wage and produced more cars in less time for less money, everyone would buy them... His vision would help create a middle class in the U.S., one marked by urbanization, rising wages, and some free time in which to spend them."

[jusion]

There is no doubt that there are many paths to victory for Obama and just a few for McCain. But if undecideds break for McCain, and the last two days' momentum continues, he remains in the game. The release Monday of the 2001 audio tape with Obama arguing for wealth redistribution seems to suggest that the foolish remark he made to Joe the Plumber was not an aberration. "Spreading it around" matters more to Obama than increasing the total economic pie. Most Americans disagree with the Illinois senator on this, and if McCain can coherently focus the electorate on Obama's economic philosophy, that could move the national numbers a few points. The mainstream media shouting out that the race is over, has the effect, by design I think, of driving down GOP turnout, and campaign enthusiasm. There is nothing in recent history to compare with the free media onslaught for Obama this year, and there is no reason why that will change in the last week.

[cyndeewi]

You really don't know what Obama meant with at audio tape, in addition you should listen the what he said to Joe the plumber. I cannot get over you people. You listen to what others say without trying to find out the truth.

[fredamae]

im sorry, but the 2001 statement was just a "cherry picked" statement from the Whole statement and is intentionally meant to be used as a Negative against Obama.

I aint buying it.
I trust Obama and Obama's plan. At least he outlined a plan.

What specifically has mccain offered besides maintaining current policies that are Already proved ineffective and at a deep financial expense for the Majority of Americans and business?

Frankly, since i am WAY under $250K in earnings (and i believe the Majority of Americans are as well) I would Appreciate a reduction of taxes, I dont understand Why the poor are still supporting mccain on this one merit alone.

[athenasword]

"Spread the wealth around" does not equate to "redistribution" or "socialism" or Marxism. You folks need to do some homework.... and spend some time looking at working class Americans in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan who I KNOW want a little more of the "pie".

Blame the "free media onslaught" or the "liberal media" or whatever you want... people see Obama and listen to him and LIKE what they hear. Young, old, rich, poor, Latino, White, Black...
You might try a little listening.

[athenasword]

"if the undecideds break for McCain" HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[Tommygun2146]

You're spinning so fast you fail to see that the only people who are buying your heavily edited, completely out of context version of that tape are the people who have already surrendered their minds to the McSame camp. Slow down, catch your breath, look at reality for a minute and then you can start spinning again.

[thestargazer]

Has anyone noticed how McCain/s ads recently (this one and the one using Biden's words) only say vote McCain, they don't even mention Palin?

Seems even the McCain Camp has learned that she is a lead weight around their necks and want nothing to do with her. Or, maybe it's the other way around?

[obamasandiego]

Spreading the wealth to the middle class for once in my lifetime is about time. I don't understand this Republicans not getting it. They're stubborn like McAngry. To reiterate SENATORCALLENBOWE it's the poor v. the rich.

[jusion]

If Obama's plan to "spread the wealth" is implemented, the whole idea of America Dream will be undermined, if not outright destroyed.

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." - Thomas Jefferson

[karronna]

uh....have you noticed every plan of Obama's has a WORK as a component....

Course not.

A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

[athenasword]

Actually, if the richest 5% of America is the only group getting richer, then THAT will undermine the American Dream. We have already had a redistribution of wealth in recent years... it's all been upward. Nice try, though.

[Bizby]

jusion:

What nonsense you speak.

ONE: Say we have two people, one makes $250,000, the other $50,000. They both need a road for all the reasons a road will help them. The road costs $1000. Under a graduated income tax, the rich fellow pays 5/6ths of the road's cost and the middle income fellow 1/6th. Both can use the road equally. Wealth has been spread around.

TWO: Now both make 50,000, but one has two children and gets tax deductions, so the fellow with kids pays $400 for the road and the fellow without kids pays $600 (assuming no deficit spending). The fellow with kids has 3 times the potential need for the road but pays less--again, you've "spread the wealth around."

So what's the problem?

[Tommygun2146]

Your basis for this argument? Let's see some FACTS and figures - the flowery prose may distract the lemming class and make you seem smart to them, but for me it only draws attention to the fact that your baseless allegations have no substance.

[evekendall]

The American Dream will end for the rich, too, if they don't have customers with enough money to purchase their goods and services. They'll go bankrupt - like many of them are doing now for this very reason.

[evekendall]

Obama wants to cut taxes for the middle class instead of the upper class, but the wealthy Republicans have somehow convinced the middle-class Republicans that it would be "socialism" instead of the tax cut that it is. Of course, they are throwing out this charge because they want the tax cut for themselves. The wealthiest one percent have already had numerous tax cuts under George W. Bush over the last eight years. You would think that the average middle class citizen would welcome a tax cut for themselves. It's amazing how some people will cut off their own noses just because the Republicans say so.

Obama tax cut calculator:
http://alchemytoday.com/obamataxcut/

Comparing the Obama and McCain Tax Plans:
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/taxes/Tax_Plan_Comparison_FINAL.pdf

Be sure and look at the comparisons for small businesses.

[cyndeewi]

The republicans have to convince the white middle class or they will not get their vote. What hurts is these people believe whatever you tell them.