In a speech today in St. Louis, Barack Obama says his tax plan would “cut taxes for 95% of workers,“ while John McCain’s proposals would provide “tax breaks and loopholes” for big corporations and wealthy Americans. He also pledges to bring “Democrats and Republicans together” to provide “affordable, quality healthcare for all.”
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This “web ad” from John McCain says Mitt Romney “seems to change positions like the wind.”
“Mittsurfing”
Mitt Romney jumps on a John Kerry-type moment from Senator McCain.
“Waltz”
Rudy Giuliani explains — once again — why his campaign strategy of ignoring the early primaries and concentrating on Florida will work.
Here’s Rudy talking about cutting taxes to stimulate the economy at The Villages in Florida:
This 30-second ad from Rudy Giuliani displays a half-dozen quotes from various sources (including Mitt Romney) attesting to the Mayor’s record as a “tax cutter” and “”true fiscal conservative.”
Huckabee’s latest claims to have made the first big tax cut in 160 years of Arkansas history, which led to jobs and surpluses and milk and honey flowing down the White River.
Mike Huckabee’s mascot, Chuck Norris, talks about the fairness of Mike’s fairtax (aka 23% value-added sales tax) idea. Why, says Chuck, I once saw one of those Saudi princes practically buy up a whole store and not pay taxes. Except he probably did pay sales tax and he didn’t pay income tax because he didn’t earn the income here. But nevermind, we love to hate those Saudi princes. Chuck and Mike also try to say that this tax won’t affect old people because they don’t buy much new. They only buy used? Oh, who cares, it’s Chuck Norris!
Tax hater Grover Norquist asked the candidates to sign his no-tax pledge at the YouTube debate and here he gives his reaction, tweaking Fred Thompson for being refused and refusing to sign and then teasing John McCain for refusing to sign a pledge he signed back in 2000, “when he was a Regan Republican.” A brass Ronnie looks on approvingly.
Rudy says he will lower taxes while Edwards, Obama and Clinton will raises taxes “even more than they promise.”
Sound Bite: “I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues. Democrats don’t know that. They don’t believe it.”
Michael Medved asks Mitt Romney to name programs he’ll cut and Romney says there are duplicate efforts in economic development, jobs, and preventing teen pregnancy and he’ll start there.
Mitt Romney says tax cuts “will grow our economy” and he’s promising a whole lot of ‘em: he will “kill the death tax once and for all”; he’ll “roll back tax rates across the board”; and for middle class Americans (not defined here), taxes on interest, dividends and capital gains will be “absolutely zero.”
Well, you could read Mitt Romney lips, if this weren’t a radio commercial in which he brags about being the only candidate to sign the tax pledge. He vows to be the Rambo of taxes, killing them right and left.
Unions may be shrinking in size and influence in other quarters of society, but not in the Democratic primaries. Every other day, John Edwards is putting up another union lovefest on YouTube and then the other candidates try to prove their love.
Here is Bill Richardson, amazingly, calling for a tax incentive to be given to companies that unionize.
And it’s Friday, so it must be time for another Edwards union endorsement, this one from the Carpenters Union.
Sound bite: “I want to be the president who walks out onto the White House lawn and proudly — proudly — says the word ‘union’.”
He also talks about universal health care and says that “access to health care” and “affordable health care” are “weasel words.”
Sam Brownback, who hadn’t put up a video in a month, floods the zone today with seven videos, each recorded in a nattily casual V-neck. Here, he tries to outdo Mitt Romney defending traditional marriage and families and God.
Sound bite: “Pray for us. We need your prayers, too. God bless you all.”
And here — read his lips — he vows not to raise taxes and proposes a voluntary flat-tax.
Folksy Fred Thompson answers some voter questions while rolling through Central Florida:
Here he explains why he would have voted against the recent Medicare prescription drug coverage program.
Sound Bite: “We shouldn’t be adding on programs that make the solution even that much more difficult.”
And Fred’s no fan of the current tax system.
Sound Bite: “There are several good plans out there that move us in the right direction. And I think that we need to take ‘em, put ‘em on the table and see what we can do, with the underlying goal of doing away with the current tax code that’s an abominable mess.”
Mitt Romney made news today calling for no taxes on savings, interest, dividends, capital gains for people earning under $200,000 a year. (Hmmm. does this mean that if you invest $4 million and make 5% interest, you can quit your job? Tempting.)
