Nitro, you may impute any motive to me you like but you show no respect for your character or others by calling me a liar---one who says what he knows not to be true. Insults have no place on this board. You should be aware that McCain advocated a 4-per-cent tax cut for the rich and an 0.2-per-cent tax cut for the working poor, perceived as callous and gauche by many.
The Obama plan provided a tax cut of $567 for a family income of $19,000; the McCain plan $19. At $37,000 a year, a tax cut by Obama's plan of $1.024; McCain's $319. Only at $110,000 did the two plans converge. Moreover, Obama promised tax cuts for 90 per cent of all American families. Obama adapted Reagan and Kennedy policies for himself: nonpartisan, nonideological, smart politics.
What's untruthful of Obama's message having a Reagan resonance---of Reagan's tapping into middle class dissatisfaction---and the debate over before it began? As others pointed out here, given the average person's limited capacity to fret over the rich, McCain's drawing attention to Obama's proposed higher tax rates for wealthy Americans was an improbable strategy.
